Nozempic!

[tribe125]

I've talk to a few hundred people on Statin based cholesterol meds and all confirmed that get upset easy.

I’ve been on the standard triple whammy of statin, anti-hypertensive and aspirin for about fifteen years. No side-effects at all, and none mentioned by others that I know on a similar regime. After all this time I’d probably feel a bit vulnerable without them.

[is that my watch]

I’ve been on the standard triple whammy of statin, anti-hypertensive and aspirin for about fifteen years. No side-effects at all, and none mentioned by others that I know on a similar regime. After all this time I’d probably feel a bit vulnerable without them.

not bad

parents are like maracas once they had the morning ones then after the mid days ones and the night ones lets just say glad of the nhs for that one ..as unpaid carer if I need meds (thank god not often it's like a tenner a pop per item -talking anywhere from a tenner to £££ per script )

never head of them getting upset ..but that would explain certain things

some days wish I was on some uppers myself ... dont get a decent night sleep often and my days ant easy some days ...


take today about 7am dads up to go the toilet (now with the physiotherapy it's help we have some mobility now enough anyway so he can go on his own - got toilet frames etc etc ) but I tend to wake most times ...this morning I think he's left the tap running so I go in no tap running but noise is their and Thiers water all over the floor so check the toilet tank the ball cock broke so not cutting of the water so I have to flush the toilet run off for a screwdriver to turn of the flow. found it had leaks through the ceiling and was coming down the wall above the back door had to clean that up. lucky it had not brought down part of the ceiling just got to it in time .


so get dad dressed and out (visiting friends ) and I had to see what's wrong (ok ant looked at since I came back so ten years or so ) I found the bar to the bull cock had snap by the bullcock joint so was hoping to get just a new arm .. but they did not sell them any more ...

so had to buy the whole kit and kaboodle .. and strip it out and put the new in ..and yes it was a bitch to remove the other one ...fitted the new only to find it had a fault tap so had to go back out to the plumbers (I took a vid as did not want to dissemble till I had the replacement parts ) the guy was fairly decent about it and gave me the parts I needed and just asked to bring the fault one and any bits I did not used- that seem fair going to swap out the tap tomorrow now had enough it's useable for dad for tonight just when filling the tap leaks everywhere inside the tank but safe enough for the night ... so yes another wonderful day in my life

[pacifico66]

I was taking them for weight loss. Though, early in the year, my A(1)(c) level crept above 6.5%. After that, at least technically, I was taking them for both weight loss and diabetes.

We'll have to see what the thinking is on the diabetes front. I'm having a physical next month, which will include an A(1)(c) test.


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My 2 cents is push back on the medicine about 5 years ago, maybe a bit longer my A1c was in the 7's I was making my last hard push knowing my retirement goals were a reality and was really drinking a lot (mostly Mai Tais) and really did not pay much attention to what I ate. My doctor immediately wanted me on metformin I resisted and said I can do this, well I did and in short order.I cut out all carbs (except beer) got a glucose and ketone meter and started monitoring levels.what an eye opener you learn quickly what your triggers are and i have been at acceptable levels ever since I will admit it was miserable going at first giving up all my favorite things like bread rice etc but you get used to it the meter and test strìps are not expensive and currently am not on anything for diabetes it can be done

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[Samanator]

I’ve been on the standard triple whammy of statin, anti-hypertensive and aspirin for about fifteen years. No side-effects at all, and none mentioned by others that I know on a similar regime. After all this time I’d probably feel a bit vulnerable without them.

As long as I stay under 10mG of the Statin I'm generally OK. Depending on who makes it I can sometimes get away with 15mG. Go to 20mG and I have zero tolerance for anything that might upset me. You might have a tolerance now after that much time for higher doses(if your's is above 10mG).

Statin side effect two, at anything at or above 15mG my platelet count reads at an impossibly low level in the three or four digit area (part of why I was in the hospital falsely for 3.5 weeks). At that level I should be bleeding from every organ. Even a platelet transfusion only brought it up slightly and then dropped again. Take me off the statin, and it recovers.

[tribe125]

As long as I stay under 10mG of the Statin I'm generally OK. Depending on who makes it I can sometimes get away with 15mG. Go to 20mG and I have zero tolerance for anything that might upset me. You might have a tolerance now after that much time for higher doses(if your's is above 10mG).

I take Simvastatin 40mg, once daily. I might have started on 20mg but I can’t remember. It’s reviewed once a year and the blood results are always OK as far as my GP is concerned. If the doctor’s happy, I’m happy. As I say, no side-effects from day one until now. For all I know, and in combination with other medicines, statins might have been keeping me alive for years. It wouldn’t surprise me if half of the older people I pass on the street are on them.


Edit: By the way, it shouldn’t matter who makes them, unless some are coated and some are not. As far as I know, they’re all coated. Mine might come from different manufacturers, depending on where the NHS goes shopping.

[Samanator]

I take Simvastatin 40mg, once daily. I might have started on 20mg but I can’t remember. It’s reviewed once a year and the blood results are always OK as far as my GP is concerned. If the doctor’s happy, I’m happy. As I say, no side-effects from day one until now. For all I know, and in combination with other medicines, statins might have been keeping me alive for years. It wouldn’t surprise me if half of the older people I pass on the street are on them.


Edit: By the way, it shouldn’t matter who makes them, unless some are coated and some are not. As far as I know, they’re all coated. Mine might come from different manufacturers, depending on where the NHS goes shopping.

I say this because the named brand Lipitor which is a statin based drug completely messed up my blood work (or so it seemed). More generic rosuvastatin at 10mG does not. I will note on what I consider my worst day during the 3.5 weeks extended hospital visit just when they were going to take me off of one blood thinner and on to one I could take at home I had 10 blood raws. It got to the point my hemotologist said he did not believe the hospitals results and brought in his own team and used his lab for the last two draws . Those were consistent without the crazy results.

[Kronos]

My 2 cents is push back on the medicine about 5 years ago, maybe a bit longer my A1c was in the 7's I was making my last hard push knowing my retirement goals were a reality and was really drinking a lot (mostly Mai Tais) and really did not pay much attention to what I ate. My doctor immediately wanted me on metformin I resisted and said I can do this, well I did and in short order.I cut out all carbs (except beer) got a glucose and ketone meter and started monitoring levels.what an eye opener you learn quickly what your triggers are and i have been at acceptable levels ever since I will admit it was miserable going at first giving up all my favorite things like bread rice etc but you get used to it the meter and test strìps are not expensive and currently am not on anything for diabetes it can be done

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I've heard of glucose meters. How does a keytone meter work? I remember learning about ketosis during the height of the Atkins diet craze. (Atkins turned out, I think, to be more right than wrong.)

I can see cutting way down on carbs - though it would be hard. But all carbs seems super difficult.


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[tribe125]

You can test for ketones with urine reagent strips, and with home kits for blood. I wouldn’t, personally, and I wouldn’t self-test for anything else, other than critical things like blood sugar for diabetes. None of us has the knowledge to make a balanced assessment of the results and are more likely to make ourselves unnecessarily anxious. It’s a different matter if a doctor has recommended home testing and has indicated what you should report to him.

As for giving up carbohydrates, why would you? They’re necessary. Just have a normal balanced diet but slightly less of it.