Counting days on the calendar, I was shocked at my timing. I had started Byetta exactly 30 days ago, and yesterday morning, on a whim since it was around this time last month that I started the drug, I had renewed my prescription.

I was pretty anxious to get started on the higher maintenance dose. While it had taken a while for the side effects to kick in, I was definitely starting to feel the nausea and lack of appetite lately. Yes, this may sound sadistic, but I was hoping the higher dosage would increase these aspects.

Lately, I haven't been really interested in eating dinner, or lunch for that matter. I have found that I'm leaving work for my lunch break later in the day and may only go because I feel like if I don't eat I'll get super hungry later or even go low. Dinner seems to be the same way, but quite often lately I get the feeling that I could skip a meal and be OK. I'm sure part of it is because I snack all day, but part of it is definitely due to Byetta.

So last night I took my new dose, looked at the clock and marked the time I'd need to eat by. Feeling a bit run down, I sat on the couch and when the time came to eat dinner, I felt simply horrible. OK, that's an exaggeration, but I really didn't feel well at all. I'm not blaming all of this on Byetta because from experience it seems to take a while for the drug to really get into my system. But, frankly, I was sort of enjoying the feeling of not wanting to eat.

This morning's fasting was right on-101-and much, much better than it has been as of late. This, I'm sure, was because I didn't snack after I finally ate dinner. I was disappointed, though, that I actually had an appetite. Even though I gave myself some breathing room between when I took the Byetta and when I actually ate, I managed to scarf down more breakfast that I had hoped I would.

It's a waiting game from now on and hopefully in another week or two I will feel too awful to eat and not have an appetite at all even if I didn't feel awful. (Isn't that a weird way to live?)