I'm asking about the new diabetic insulin drug called Byetta.?!


Question: I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with it. Do you bruise up with it like you do with regular insulin shots? Where do you inject it? Can you inject your finger or the palm of your hand or any particular place you choose?
My h;usband is type 2 diabetic and well controlled with all his meds but we just recently found out that Actos shouldn't be taken in patients with heart disease.


Answers: I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with it. Do you bruise up with it like you do with regular insulin shots? Where do you inject it? Can you inject your finger or the palm of your hand or any particular place you choose?
My h;usband is type 2 diabetic and well controlled with all his meds but we just recently found out that Actos shouldn't be taken in patients with heart disease.

Actos caused me to have edema! I had to quit it for that reason.

Byetta is for those not yet on insulin. If on insulin the other is Symlin. It has similar reaction.

Byetta doesn't work if your glucose is not high. It only works on the high glucose numbers.

I don't bruise up with the insulin shots. I have only had about 3 bruised spots in the past 4 years from injections. Insulin goes into the fatty tissue between the skin and the muscle, not into the muscle. When I accidently hit a nerve or a little blood vessel I do bruise and only then does it even hurt.

I think the Byetta is injected into the fatty tissue as well. It came out after I was put on insulin injections. Most of these call for tummy, thigh, upper arm or buttocks as injection sites.

Byetta is not an insulin drug. Read more here:
http://www.byetta.com/patient/byetta_faq...

Byetta works very well. I used to take it. It must be injected in the abdomen, upper thigh, or upper arm for the proper absorption. It may cause nausea for a while, but that will go away. I used to take dramamine for the nausea. It's not an insulin, but is injected the same way. It caused low blood sugar in me a few times until we got the dosage figured out.





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