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Labs off with jardiance?
My doctor switched me from metformin to jardiance about 6 months ago due to family history of heart disease and also to help with a small amount b of weight loss. My weight is now within the norm but my labs have been off and my blood sugars are running high. At first my co2 was high but then repeat labs showed it at 20, which is barely normal. The 2nd set of labs then showed my bun as high. My average blood sugar (per the stelo gcm and verified with a finger stick) has been over 140. My doctor wants to wait and do repeat labs before changing the med. Has anyone else had this experience.and what did you do?
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What has hour hgA1c looked like?
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1 ReactionThe last it was checked was just after starting the jardiance and it was up a little to 6.3
I only used Jardiance briefly, but I'll ask a question on a general basis - anything different about your diet and exercise regimen recently?
Have you tried a stricter diet and a little more exercise to fix it in any case?
Of course your problems may not be with the Jardiance, but neither is the Jardiance likely to be a fix for them either.
Nothing really different about diet or exercise. I eat pretty low carb and exercise daily. I could cut back and do keto but the instructions for jardiance specifically say not to do that. I have an appointment with the MD next week so hopefully will get some resolution. What did you go to after the jardiance?
After Jardiance I just got by with metformin - and diet, and exercise.
I had what is apparently a very unusual onset, they thought it was LADA (though never told me that, I figured it out later), but my sky-high BG and A1C responded bigtime to diet and exercise!
I did insulin for a month, then stopped that and went on Jardiance for a month, and then - just metformin, and if I don't cheat on my diet I can probably get by even without that and still keep A1C below 5.7. But with the metformin and a modest amount of cheating I've gone randomly between about 5.4 to 5.9 over the last few years.
When I ask the endocrinologist what I had, he just shrugs.
If I stopped the metformin, ate like a pig, and didn't (or couldn't) exercise, there's no telling what would happen, probably bad things.
I went on Farxiga, another SGLT2 inhibitor, and my A1C went up from 5.6 to 6.0, but I went off keto, too. I had protein in my pee and Farxiga stopped it, as well as lowered BP, and I am eating standard carbs. I need to figure out the right carb load but im lazy