Thanks again!
I find taking a glucose tablet helps end my nauseous feeling, Sometimes I even take a half a glucose tablet. Its a matter of experimenting. I find if I go into the 60's then I know I need the tablet.
I have split the does of Victoza too, One in the morning and one before the evening meal. That helps too so I do not get a wallop of medicine. Glucose is by far the best for me. Good Luck
Hi Diagnosed!
I'm a new T2, and in my very 1st week of Victoza and it's the only thing I'm taking so far (doc wants me to start Metformin in a few weeks, but since I've never been on ANY medication we want to see how I react to Victoza without adding in Metformin just yet).
SO... have had a sort of rough 1st week. My dosage has been "3 clicks" for three days, then "6 clicks" for the next three days. I'm now on "9 clicks" which I think is .08.
No headaches at all. I was pretty worried about nausea so I take the Victoza at night, 8pm. I've only had a super mega slight feeling of nausea once or twice, so that's good, but I'm aware that my dosage is still low. More nausea may come with a higher dosage.
BUT THE VOMITTING!!
My appetite is severly curbed, so most of the time I'm not hungry. I'm not interested in the weight loss aspect, so I'm not thrilled about that. And I'm working on eating a little something every 3-4 hours as people have suggested, and trying to tie that in with testing every 2 hours after eating to see how certain foods effect my BG.
But I have spent most of the past week mentally STARVING but **AFRAID** to eat.
Because twice in the past week I've eaten and then had a HORRIBLE case of vomitting and diarrhea. OMG it was a complete HURLFEST and completely freaked me out. The 1st occurred after eating a cup of chicken chili over quinoa from a local really good quality health food restaurant. My stomach started cramping, and then I was sick for 30 minutes of serious puking.
The 2nd episode was last night -- and I had been doing REALLY good with selecting healthy, lean, low-carb all day. After the episode Tuesday I was being pretty cautious about eating, so by dinnertime Friday I was FAMISHED! I had a cup of chicken salad, and 1/3 of a burrito, even took it out of the tortilla to avoid the carbs there. Was so proud of my eating choices. Then 40 minutes later *BOOM* barfing AGAIN.
I'm totally forlorn now... just don't know WHAT the heck to eat/not eat. Or is the food choice fine, and maybe I just ate too much with the "slow stomach emptying" that Victoza promotes?
So here I sit on a glorious Saturday morning, 6am, and at least mentally S-T-A-R-V-I-N-G because I've barely eaten anything the past 2 days -- but somehow also feeling FULL. (That's infuriating, lemme tell ya!) And my stomach still feels wobbly so I'm afraid to put anything in it just yet.
Oh - but my morning BG just now is only 287!!!!!!!!! -- That's down from 561 just last week. After I eat it goes up into the 300-400 range, but even that's slowly coming down too.
So Victoza is definetly working as promised... full / slow stomach emptying, constipation, and lower numbers. Yay. 8-/
I found that I had to eat “just enough” to take the hunger away. I have also found, after a year being on it, that I can live quite well on the decreased food intake. I thought I needed to eat more, but apparently not. Anyway, the nausea ends - too bad the weird burps never go away completely.