Hey there,
Do not worry...Byetta helps you to not make more insulin than you need and the Glucophage helps you to actually use what you make! You will more than likely be told to keep your carbohydrate intake to less than 100 grams a day and be shown how to keep track of it all. Hang in there. I have been on Glucophage for a loooooonnnnngggg time and have just recently started Byetta....about 2 weeks ago. Thankfully the Byetta side effects have mostly subsided...but I do not dare over-eat!
Have a wonderful day!
Mel
Me:
Married: All my adult life.
Occupation: RN, Operating Room Nurse
Kids: 2 girls, youngest with the help of Clomid.
PCOS: Official diagnosis over 6 years ago.
I just saw this article about Byetta in my new email issue of Diabetes Health, so I thought I would share it with all of you. Sounds promising...
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Good News for Byetta (Exenatide):
Canadian Study Reports Once-Weekly Dose
Is Better at BG Control Than Twice Daily
Diabetes Health
September 11, 2008
A Canadian clinical study has delivered a double dose of good news for proponents of exenatide (sold commercially as Byetta), a drug used by more than 700,000 Americans to control blood glucose, ease food cravings, and, incidentally, lose weight.
An experimental long-term version, injected once weekly (versus the twice-daily routine in current use), provides better control of blood sugar and is better tolerated by users' gastrointestinal systems.
Those are the conclusions of a study by Dr. Daniel Drucker and colleagues at the Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Drucker's study was presented at a recent meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Rome, and will be published in the British medical journal The Lancet.
The randomized trial followed 259 type 2 diabetes patients who had had diabetes an average of nearly seven years, tracking their A1c levels for 30 weeks. The mean A1c level for the group was 8.3% at the start of the study.
One group of 129 patients received a once-weekly 2 mg (milligram) injection of exenatide. The other group of 130 patients received exenatide injections of 10”g (micrograms) twice daily.
The patients on the once-weekly regimen saw their A1c levels fall to a mean of 6.4% (a -1.9% improvement), while those taking the drug twice daily saw their A1c's fall to 6.8% (a -1.5% improvement).
More patients in the once-weekly group, 77 percent, achieved the study target of an A1c of 7.0% or less, compared with 61 percent of those in the twice-daily group.
The percentages of those achieving A1c's of 6.5% or less were similar in both groups. The authors concluded, "Exenatide once weekly resulted in significantly greater improvements in glycemic control than exenatide given twice a day, with no increased risk of hypoglycemia and similar reductions in bodyweight."
The study is available online.
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CLICK HERE to read the 13-page pdf file of the actual study.
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Diagnosed: June 2, 2003
Metformin 2000 mg, Byetta 5mcgX2
I just went up to the 10 and I am supposed to be using twice a day but so far I am so nauseous that I can only handle one. Even then that is about unbearable. I am eating within 15 minutes like the dr. told me to do but it doesn't seem to be helping. I don't have diabetes but was wondering about those of that don't have it as well. Did you adjust your eating when your started byetta to a diabetic diet?
I accidentally discovered last night that if I take the 10 mg Byetta injection and then wait 20-minutes (or a little longer) to eat, I am not so nauseous. Also, if you eat healthy food, I am not so nauseous.
Last night we had BOSTON MARKET (at the restaurant). Usually I inject right before I sit down to eat. But I injected on the way to the restaurant and then didn't eat for about 20-minutes. I felt a "little" nauseous about an hour afterwards, but was okay.
so...how long untilthe weight loss starts? I am seeing my MD tomorow, and he has suggested Byetta before...I am doing metabolically great, BUT the weight loss is NOT occuring (and needs too...SIGH!!!!)...I am getting married next June, and I KNOW it is vain...but I would like to be at a more healthy weight...I have to order my dress in November/December...and I guess...
As a side note...I switched from the glucophage to the metformin (generic) and my gastrointestinal distress is practically gone...anyone else switch from brand to generic? What happened there???
Anyother ideas on weight loss when diet and excersize are NOT burning the calories in PCOS/IR body?????
I'm taking Byetta too.. Make sure you eat within an hour of the injection! If I don't eat within an hour I feel HORRIBLE!!!!!!
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Married
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Age 31
PCOS diagnosed 03/03
Hypertensive Heart disease - dx'd 03/07
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy - dx'd 03/07
Metformin 2000mg/day
Dermatographia (a type of hives, cause unknown)
Longest time gone without AF - 10 months
Fibromyalgia (dx'd 7/07)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (dx'd 7/07)
Glutathione/ATP injections :
Pulmonary Obstruction (dx'd 3/5/08)
Inhomogeneous Endometrium (2/08)
What else do you take with the Byetta to treat your hyperinsulinemia?
Metformin ER 500 mg once a day.
Any advice for anyone else starting Byetta?
If you have a hurricane and have to evacuate for a week, take all of your Byetta with you so when the power is out for 6 days, you won't have to throw away 2 new pens because your insurance company requires you to get a 3 month supply...and then you have to go off of it for a month because the same insurance company won't let you refill it early....LOL boy is that a run-on sentence!
SO...I have been on the Byetta for over three weeks... Week one -0.5 pounds, week two +0.5 pounds (back to starting weight) & week 3 +0.5 pound (starting weight +0.5)...FRUSTRATION! Ellie - are you saying you have been on this for 7 months with no weight loss? why do you stay on the med then?
Hi everyone! I just started on Byetta on Tuesday. Haven't lost any weight yet, but that would be awfully fast anyhow. I don't have terrible side effects except for some pretty annoying abdominal and chest cramping, for lack of a better way to describe it. When I take my morning shot, I get cold sweats and a little woozy, but it passes in about 15 minutes. I've never had success losing weight, even after 5 grueling, embarrassing, painful years on Metformin, which landed me in the ER numerous times. I read all the posts in this forum from beginning to end, and that had a huge bearing on my decision to start on Byetta. Hopefully I will have some of the remarkable results some of you have had!
Hi! This is the originating poster of this very successful thread. We have been asked to move to a new thread by the board owner because it is slowing the server down.
Take the Byetta earlier 
