Pioglitazone is the generic name of Actos. It is also one of the active ingredients in Actoplus Met and Duetact.
Don't stop taking them without informing your doc.
My doc would like to see me off Actos, and working out more.
Heart failure aka congestive heart failure, CHF
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May I suggest the book, Worried Sick, by Nortin Hadler? He has interesting things to say about the rush to bring new drugs to market and then to promote them heavily. It’s quite an eye-opener concerning how much of what is done in medicine causes more harm than good or at least, does not pass the risk/benefit test.
I asked my doctor to take me off Actos after being on it for two years because my ankles swelled up like balloons and I retained water like a 9 month pregnant women
He sort of blew me off, because he thought I was not trying to lose weight and sticking to my diet. I told him it was the Actos making it impossible to loss weight. I was really trying
Next time I saw him, he told me I was coming off Actos. It wasn't a statement, it was like a command
He must have been reading up.
In a week, I lost about 10 lbs in fluid and felt like a human again.
I continue to lose weight and the blood sugar is a little shaky some days, (Jamumet) but at least I can exercise again
This is off topic, but does anybody know if there is a correlation between pancreatic cancer and diabetes type II.
My husband was diagnosed with diabetes last June 2007. He went from 247 lbs. to 197 lbs. after his diagnosis. Now, Aug 08, they just found a tumor in the neck of his pancreas. So I’m wondering if pancreatic cancer’s 1st symptom is diabete. TIA