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Originally Posted by luv4deliah  I have to wonder if you've had no nausea and actually GAINED weight on Byetta, maybe you're not getting the medicine in afterall. Did you read the instructions that came with your pen thouroughly? Before you use your pen for the first time, you're supposed to follow the "Set Up Your Pen Instructions". Make sure you're doing it all the right way before you give up on Byetta. In the first month I took it I lost 15 lbs! I did have a lot of nausea. But you should feel almost overly full after you eat a meal right after your shot.
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Hello,
Thank you so much for your post back to me. Since my last entry here, my doctor boosted up my byetta to 10 units twice a day. I did read the instructions and i know that im getting the medicine because the liquid in the pen gets used up by the end of the month. I set up or prime the pen when it is new. I hold the needle in for 5 seconds. My byetta pen is kept in the refridgerator because it is too hot in hawaii to keep it out. I am doing everything exactly the way my doctor told me and what the instructions say to do. I was so afraid of needles, but now that im doing this twice a day, im getting a lot braver. I just went to the doctors last week again. my A1C and Triglycerides improved alot, my doctor was pleased for the first time ever!!! But I GAINED another 5 pounds!!! Im not even kidding, i dont know what it is. I give myself the shot and wait one hour then have my meal. I may have gotten nauseaed only 3 times ever in about 3 months. other then that, i feel normal not full. My doctor said that it is not a magic shot that makes you lose weight...but i dont get it. everybody else is losing weight and im gaining. I continue to use the byetta because it is helping me. it's just that i am not losing weight but the very opposite.
I thought for sure that when we went to 10 units, that i would lose some weight...but it hasnt happened. Doctor wants me to up my excerise from 3 days a week to 5. hopefully this will help.
Any advice is welcome..thank you for replying to my post.
aloha!