EXENATIDE vs GLIMEPIRIDE

60yr SW 95kg GW 70kg After 5 months I’ve achieved my goal weight. I’ve not been this weight since a teenager. Tried every diet over the years but only had temporary success. Always struggled with food noise. Retired early as a GP in the UK due to MH in 2022. Turned 60 earlier this year & finall

I'm just curious. The more I experience this pain and weakness the more I realize this is what sleep deprivation is. Without proper restorative sleep you get the exact same symptoms. Poorer sleep leads to a disruption in hormonal levels which makes sense why this affects more women then men. They

I just finished reading an *excellent* series of blog posts about how the fear of insulin is mostly bullshit. I wanted to understand the articles better, and contribute to fittit, so I went through each article and summarized them the best as I could in layman terms. All of them are worth a read, an

Since we can't submit links on this sub, I'm pasting an interesting article I saw today. It's by Sarah Zhang for the Atlantic. Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug? People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting

Fair warning: this will be a long post filled with data and graphs and some potentially controversial commentary. You may feel the urge to express how I am doing something wrong, not eating enough, etc. I’ve seen and read it all so it will fall on deaf ears here, but have at it I suppose. I plan to

My health plan formulary updates for GLPS! As a PA tech, not looking forward to alllllll the calls and PAs we’re about to get lol -GLP medications for diabetes will require step-therapy on October 1 2023. This update applies to dulaglutide (Trulicity), exenatide (Bydureon and Byetta), liraglutide (

Invex Therapeutics # Background Invex Therapeutics is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company incorporated on the 8th of March in 2019 which is repurposing an orphan drug (Exenatide) for initial use in the indication of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH). A basic understanding of the sc

I am a type 2 diabetic. Last July, right before I started keto my doc was rumbling about me "graduating" to insulin. He had added glimepiride and Januvia, and my A1C had still crept north of 7. I began keto on July 9th. Since then, with 40 pounds gone we eliminated glimepiride, then januvia, and mid

Hello, My dad (77M, male) attempted suicide yesterday. He fell from a 12-foot balcony. He was admitted to the ER and has three primary injuries. A broken hip, where his right leg meets the hip. Bruising to the abdominal aorta. And a fractured vertebrae (C6)/out of place disk in the neck (C6). He is

The following post does not constitute medical advice. If anything in here is interesting to you, talk to your endocrinologist. I just wanted to give my personal experience of being on Metformin for approximately 14 years. For context, I am an insulin-dependent diabetic and a thyroid cancer surviv

Good morning folks. I am seeking advice for people who have maybe been in a similar situation. In my office of apps and one doc, we are assigned partners and share an office with said partner. The person on call for the week also covers for the doc if need be. Coverage includes signing off on injec

First published last Wednesday, 18th of March. Following a rapid increase in popularity of GLP-1 drugs for diabetes and weight loss, such as semaglutide and tirzepatide, approximately one in eight U.S. adults now take these medications, which also provide cardiovascular benefits. However, when patie

I had some pain in my bladder before Christmas and went to an Urgent Care place. I had been drinking half a gallon of water a day for two months and the doctor thought that maybe it was the increase in drinking that was making my bladder hurt, since my "urine had no sugar and no ketones" in it. Fast

Hey folks, I’m on day 4 of doing a Keto Chow–only diet (just the shakes, around 1650 cals/day), and even though I’ve been super low carb, I’m still waking up with really high blood sugar. About 160–180 every morning. (Note, I have ben low carb for about three months now and did this experiment speci

Hello guys I hope all of you are doing good. I was diagnosed last year in December my hba1c was 11.5 and I am just 28. So doctor put me on metformin 500 mg and glimepiride 1mg. Every 15 days we did sugar and blood report for fbs and ppbs. Within two months it was under control. So doctor did an exp