Posted on 06/29/2013 10:31:45 PM PDT by expat1000
A once-daily injection to transform the treatment of diabetes has been approved for NHS use.
The lixisenatide jab means sufferers would no longer have to inject themselves before or after every meal or snack.
At present many of the 3 million Britons with diabetes – whose bodies do not absorb sugar from food, leading to dangerously high levels in the blood – are tied to a strict regime of injections.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Derived from the spit of the Gila monster. Similar to Diabeta (exetanide) or Bydureon (exetanide extended realease).
Bydureon is dosed once weekly.
Neither one has really caught on in my area of the country, not sure why.
Was hoping to see if there was any thing for type 2, as my son has it. Been doing a lot of reading on Strontium, Dr’s Best Bone Maker for Osteoprosis, my Bone scan was bad and Forteo Pen was prescribed. I have osteo A in my hands bad and could not work the pen. Drug co-pay was not all that bad, the needles were $30 and it is a one time 18 month use drug with only a 9% bone regrowth. Did not like what I read about it. Sounded like to many side effects for to little gain, that will go away once stopped. I react bad to all osteoA drugs as it is. I like Holistic better than drugs.
>>Derived from the spit of the Gila monster
Interesting! I noticed later there were some negative comments on the site about this drug. Negative in the sense it was possibly being hyped without mentioning other similar drugs and the negatives of 1 shot a day.
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All drugs have side effects, even those that supposedly by pass the stomach...do not our blood vessels lead to our GI system? So if it gets into your blood stream it effects your GUT.
I’m the side effect queen of my local drug store, I send more RX’s back to the pharmacy than I purchase. I tell the Idiot doc I don’t want them and he writes them any way. Changing PCP’s, hard because of 0’care and we are TFL to boot. Both very rationed.
They will write scripts but not fix torn rotator cuff. Conservatives measures have failed to help.
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