GLIMEPIRIDE vs INSULIN ASPART

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

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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

For some reason a childhood memory popped into my head just now. We were driving somewhere with another family and their mom was in diabetic shock. My mom stormed into an Italian restaurant demanding a sweet tea. The staff were hesitant. Meanwhile the lady in distress was not in her right mind and s

there are two stories about my mother being judgmental regarding my symptoms, and here they go. when i (20f) was in 8th grade, there was a high school entrance exam that i was going to take in june. the whole year was horrible for me; apart from being severely depressed, whenever i sat down to study

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* I recently published a comprehensive guide for people who have never heard of the keto diet or want to know more. This was very well received [on /r/keto](https://redd.it/4vhrv5) and I'm sure /r/fitness would benefit as well from this information because diet is one of the most powerful and effect

Tw: Chronic condition. My baby boy was diagnosed with type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes, our lives haven't been the same eversince, we've been struggling with accepting his condition as the new normal while trying to learn as much as we can and be able to provide our son with the best care and mi

Is anyone able to clarify this for me, I’m an RPh but I hadn’t heard anything about this before. I had a patient who was (correctly) dispensed several vials of generic insulin aspart as per the prescription (no DAW or prescriber note requesting brand name) and our state laws pertaining to generic d

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