Liraglutide/victoza For Diabetes

[jack daniels]

Evening Abers

i've put this in this section as I know a lot of you go here, please be patient with my enquiry

i have been a type 2 diabetic for years and unfortunately my sugar level is quite high and so was told i needed to go onto insulin therefore making me a type 1 diabetic.

In the meantime that has been put onto hold and i've been put on Liraglutide because it is fairly new in the Uk i'm wondering if there's anyone else on it and how you are finding it and how you are getting on with being on it.

If this doesn't work then i will be put onto insulin as you cant be put on Victoza once you've been on insulin is what i've been told

any advice anyone tia

Anna x

[hc4361]

I can't help you with your enquiry as to Victoza but I just wanted to reassure you that you won't have Type I Diabetes if you do have to inject insulin. Lots of people with Type II do.

If you drive you have to inform the DVLA if you take insulin and then your licence has to be renewed regularly ( every one, two or three years), so if you can control your diabetes with diet, exercise and tablets, so much the better.

[mikey4444]

Jack...I am in similar position as you !

I mentioned Liraglutide to my Doctor two years ago, and he wasn't overly keen. But I have spoken to a few people who are on it, and they have said that its been transforming.

By the way, don't get the two different types of diabetes mixed up. As has been said, you can use Insulin and still be Type Two.

I am going to see my Doctor again soon and have another go !

[mallyh]

my oh is type 2 and they put him on a weekly drug (injection)called dulaglutide and he has had very good results from it .

[jack daniels]

thank you for your replies and i honestly thought once you are on insulin you are counted as being type 1
i wasnt aware that you can still be type 2 if on insulin - so why the difference? this has confused me even more!
An advantage from being on the Liraglutide is that ive lost 2kg in weight but i am a large lady

Anna x

[hc4361]

Type I diabetes is an auto-immune disease and absolutely must be controlled with insulin injections or insulin pump. The immune system keeps attacking the pancreas until it cannot produce insulin at all and without the injections or pump the person will go in to a diabetic coma and may die.

In Type II diabetes the pancreas produces insulin but the body doesn't respond to it - it becomes insulin resistant. So the pancreas pumps out more and more insulin until it is unable to produce enough insulin.

This explains it very well, but you can see that Type I and Type II diabetes are very different.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/difference-between-type1-and-type2-diabetes.htm

There is a call for Type II diabetes to e given a completely new name so that is not associated with Type I diabetes at all. It will be interesting to see if that happens.

To complicate it even further, there is a third type, Type 1.5 diabetes.
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/type15-diabetes.html

[chessington]

Hi Im on Victoza, but I find it doesn't help with my appetite, still hungry alot I have been on loads of other insulins but Tresiba, which is fairly new is brilliant and has been the only one that has kept my blood sugar low, im type 2