Even though I started hating Byetta toward the end, it still offered me at least one redeeming benefit. I held on to Byetta a lot longer than I should have mainly because it zapped my appetite. From roughly a week in I was hardly ever hungry. In fact, I found myself routinely having rabbit food several meals a day and feeling just fine about it.
I feared the hunger almost immediately, and within days of giving up on Byetta for a number of reasons, I started to experience that dreaded hunger once again. I even did some Google research on appetite suppressants hoping that I could try to have the best of Byetta and Novolog with some herbal or OTC remedy.
Fortunately, though, I am finding that I'm not always hungry, like I was prior to Byetta. This could be partly because I have an adjusted attitude and partly because I'm better able to manage my blood sugar and any highs I may have get put in their place. So I'm not walking around with high sugar most of the time.
Still, those times when I feel I've eaten a decent amount of food, I'm not high, and the hunger still creeps in make me want to throw my stomach out the window.
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Michelle Kowalski
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Just curious Michelle - did Byetta zap your appetite because it made you nauseous? Or was it pure appetite supressant?
Pure appetite suppressant. I had some nausea, but nothing notable. I had sort of lost the desire to eat. It was nice.
I took Byetta and experienced the nausea, which led to some weight loss over the first week, but then the nausea was gone. After that I noticed Byetta worked like a appetite supressant. It was like a switch in my head that I never knew was there before, suddenly started working. I'd eat a little bit, and a voice in my head would say stop. If I ate anymore, it almost made me nauseated. I felt full. It was wonderful. I did not crave food. I was so happy. But ... it only lasted about six months then it stopped working at all. I was so sad. I thought we really had found a miracle. Rana
Why did you go off Byetta then? What did you hate about it? I'd love to hear more about your experience with it.
Kim, I was having a horrible time managing seasonal allergies this year. They seemed to throw my BS for a loop. I felt like I had no control. Also, the best way we found to get me to breathe is nasal steroids (flonaise), which also cause my BS to rise. I stopped Byetta for four days because I saw something floating in the pen on a Friday morning and my endo said not to take it. But since it wasn't time to renew I had to jump through hoops with my insurance company to get them to pay for a refill. During that time I started taking Novolog again and felt like I had so much more control. When I finally got the prescription refilled I took it for about a day and a half and it just wasn't working again. So I emailed my endo about it and he agreed that I should stop at least until allergy season is over. I also felt like I had no wiggle room. It was like stick to about 45 g of carbs or forget it. It worked really well in the beginning keeping my BS down and then it just stopped. I think a lot of it had to do with my allergies. See my posts called Off To Work I Go and What a Waste. I also have a series of posts that detail my first week on Byetta. They're called Byetta Day 1, etc.