Wed, Jul-02-08, 09:36
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95% Sugar Free!
Posts: 7,010
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Plan: Very high fat LC/HCG
Stats: 310/155.4/159
BF:
Progress: 102%
Location: Missouri
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I was afraid of insulin, too, but after I went on it, I liked it better than anything else.
You would be a candidate for 24 hour insulin like Lantus, injected once a day. Since it is timed release, the chances of hypos are very low. You would not need to learn to bolus for the amount of carb you plan to eat and inject before every meal.
Me personally, I'd rather do Lantus than Avandia. As long as you're eating low carb, you would not need very much, and it would not cause weight gain, as there just wouldn't be enough excess glucose floating around to get stored as fat.
Avandia probably causes more weight gain than the small amount of Lantus you'd be on. Levemir is a newer long-acting insulin that also shows no weight gain issues.
At first, it was believed that the mechanism by which these drugs (thiazolidinediones) caused weight gain was through fluid retention - edema. But researchers studying Actos discovered it was actually causing new fat cells to grow on the butt and hips.
New fat cells! That's scary.
Sorry you developed a problem with the metformin.
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