I did that back when I was 19, I had in growing toenails back then. So when they injected in both sides of my big toes I swore good. Now because of the pain and deformity in both of my hips, i cannot even reach to cut my toenails. Plus they are in sorry shape, especially the right toe.
So, my last post here Was ment to be funny And if anyone was find it offensive My, Sincerely apologize
@Enthousiast My best wishes that the Bevacizumab/Avastin can slow down the process (ideally but hopefully stop it/slow it significantly down at current level) My dear friend, i hope your doctor session on Friday can be "somewhat happy in feedback" and the August evaluation will be "on your side". I'm out of "intelligent" words in this context, but trust me, I think about you and this and, well, If i was you i would swear till i got banned and beyond... but you still look good. (awaiting updates in near future) to you and your wife Kind regards my friend
Update: The other week i had a checkup and the faulty eye has kinda stabilised, the eye treatment frequency now is one injection every 6 weeks and after 2 another inspection, The inspections now are more aimed at the "good" eye, i asked for a second opinion a few weeks ago, it's at a specialized eye hospital (Oogziekenhuis Rotterdam). At the request, my local eyedocter, wrote to the hospital i've read that my problems were first noticed in 2023 by a scan made not in the hospital but i was directed to go to the eyedoctor in the hospital to check again. That eyedoctor was very concerned when she got the letter from the eyescan but when she did her own scan and visual checkup she was not that concerned anymore, she even told that the damage noticed outside of the hospital was not really anything to be concerned about. BUT when the stupid doctor had combined this with me bing a diabetic patient with a long time high bloodsugar she maybe could have informed me to go to a internist for better diabetes treatment (i did that myself 6months later because i noticed the metformine not doing its job very well anymore). My eyesite back then was 90/70 (good eye/bad eye), now the local eyedoctor noticed 4 weak spots in my good eye, so that will become a wet eye too at some time, i am taking AREDS 2 supplements to feed all needed vitamines to my eye and next month my bloodsugar (hba1c) will be checked again, last check it was down to 78, needs to go a bit lower though, let's hope at next check it will be a few points lower again. I didn't get a response from the specialized eye hospital yet.
@Enthousiast I hope the blood sugar levels have gone down when it's checked. Glad the faulty eye has stabilized. I just got the results for my diabetic eye screening and thankfully no damage to my eyes, just got to keep on taking the Metformin and heart meds. Also scheduled for another blood test to check my blood sugar levels.
Update: Today i was at the optician and she did some reallife tests, the conclusion is that my "good" eye now has 70-75% vision and with corrective glasses it can go up to ~85%. My bad eye is considered not working anymore and kinda interfering with my "good" eye, as i already experienced, the eyes have different light sensitivity so that makes the combined vision a bit blurry too (what i called that my bad eye is taking preference when looking at white webpages, that eye can't handle the white shiny pages as the "good" eye does. Monday new tests because of the diabetes and a cylindrical deviation the optician does the test twice before she goes forward with the glasses themselves. ps, for those who can't handle white webpages which don't have a native dark mode i got this extension from @witherornot: https://darkreader.org/ check it here: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/posts/1888867
Handy dark mode extension to use as I sometimes have to look away from screen as it does give me a small headache, which is why I will be booking a free eye test at the opticians. Plus the squinting at my laptop screen is causing the headaches, as I'm am supposed to be wearing glasses. I also help my eyes by using dark mode in Windows 11 file explorer, so I will use this extension too.
Last week i had my 3 monthly blood checkup and the HBA1C was back up from 82 to 87 again. I have stopped taking the Rybelsus ozempic (7mg semaglutide) pills and started with the weekly Ozempic 0.5 injections, this because when the pills were taken with to much water they would not work properly, there were some other not so charming side-effects too, i talked about that before (when the thread was started and i started taking rybelsus). By the weekly injections i hope the inconsequent working of the pills will be over and some side-effects are expected to be less life intruding. And last but not least, when this works better i am hoping my bloodsugar will start going down again. I never was brave enough to inject myself with anything so it took some time for me to get over my fear of needles, considering i will most likely end-up with injecting insuline this is a good step up to get used to this.
Good luck with the weekly injections, I also have a healthy fear of needles as well and always dread the blood tests every three months. As for the Metformin tablets I'm taking, unfortunately they are making me feel nauseous and dizzy. So I'm going to contact my doctors and see if the nurse can prescribe me different medication, plus I've been suffering from the unpleasant side effects too. It could be a clash with my heart medication I'm taking everyday.
The drawing of blood i can look away from, the avastin eye injections i can't The Ozempic syringe was not that much to fear, the actual needle was just 5-6mm and there was nothing to feel when i jammed it into my (little) stomach fat, in the end it was "a peace of cake" (hoping i still feel this brave next wednesday when i have to do it without the diabetes nurse instructing me). Yes, the metformine (2500mg) was making me feel sick and dizzy too (and causing volitile dhiarrea), it still is but we now lowered the dosage to 2 x 1000mg per day and when the next blood test shows the bloodsugar HBA1C level to be lower we can see if the metformine intake can be decreased a bit more. Another fear is that i will loose to much weight, atm i weigh 68.9kg at 180cm, when i was a pro sportsman my average weight was 67, so have to keep an eye on that, at my lowest i weight justt 55kg (age 21, that time they didn't test my blood for diabetes) and at my highest 99kg, caused by anti-depressives. The anti depressive medicines were from the same manufacturer who now makes mounjaro, the ozempic competitor, back then they only arranged useless cooking classes for making healthy food to keep the weight low, but the pills caused people to gain weight anyway)
I think I will reduce my dosage to one tablet when I get up and before I go to bed, as I was taking two when I wake up and before bed at 500mg in each tablet. But it's affecting me so will contact the doctors next week. Ouch, having a needle in the eye got to hurt, but I hope it's helping your eye.
@Enthousiast @steven4554 I'm wishing you guys the very best. Hopefully the doctors can limit the damage to a minimum!
If Metformin is causing gastric explosions, try asking to be put on the slow release. These are coated to pass through the stomach before dissolving in the gut. many of us find them no problem, despite having problems with the regular ones. to reduce your hba1C, you need to reduce the amount of Carbohydrates in your diet, all Carbs, specifically the starches, are simply long chain Glucose molecules. The body breaks these down into Glucose very quickly, often before even swallowing. By eating too many carbs for our systems ability to deal with, we are packing our blood with sugar, we can only pee out a certain amount, the bodies next line of defence against it, is to convert it to body fat and store it away. we are all different and can tolerate different amounts of Carbs, so how much reduction is needed is unique to you. If you are taking Insulin or any other active blood sugar reducing med's, Metformin is not one, then you need to be careful reducing Carbs, as this can cause Hypo's, because the drugs don't stop working, because there is less sugar there. And our Livers ability to produce sugar cannot balance it out.
I use a 3/10mL, 8mm,31G syringe 4x a day. I use to use my stomach exclusively when younger until it built-up scar tissue & I couldn't get the insulin in so I switched to using my butt @ hip, both sides. I also use my Right. & Left legs now w/ a (reversible) 8 spot template pattern for them I got from Libby (?) 20 years ago (attached). I made a (tracking) spreadsheet you can use if you'd like to start using your legs too.
Yeah i am also instructed to keep injecting myself on the other side of the belly button every week, at a 5-10 cm distance circle for that reason. Luckily this is still not daily insuline but a weekly ozempic shot. I only have some fat in my belly to inject in But next wednesday will be my seocnd injection and the first i do without the nurse instructing me.