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Victoza,has anyone been prescribed it?

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Has anyone been prescribed Victoza for their thyabetes??

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What is thyabetes? This is a thyroid forum and, as far as I know, victoza is for type 2 diabetes.

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Dabdab

I’m assuming you don’t know that an under active thyroid & diabetes are linked?

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bantam12 in reply toDabdab

You may get more replies on a diabetes forum, I've not seen it mentioned on here.

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Dabdab

Really?!!!

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SeasideSusieRemembering

I think many of us here know that underactive thyroid and diabetes are linked but I too have never heard of thyabetes and a Google search brings nothing up except diabetes.

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Dabdab in reply toSeasideSusie

Thyrobetes, I misspelt it!

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helvellaAdministrator in reply toDabdab

Seems to be a recently invented term. Who knows, in time it might become widely accepted, but for now it is very niche.

The Origins Of Thyrobetes

I have started coining the term “thyrobetes” to illustrate the relationship between these two diseases. The most important aspect I want to emphasize is that diabetes and thyroid dysfunctions do not simply exist on their own. They create an “environment of risk” for patients.

Dr. Alan Christianson, Guest

thyroidnation.com/prevent-u...

Even this spelling doesn't find many hits and none at all in this forum (although our search is not very good).

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Dabdab

I asked a simple question, if people haven’t anything useful to say, then say nothing .

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helvellaAdministrator in reply toDabdab

My response was intended to help people understand what you were asking about and put a little bit of context.

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SeasideSusieRemembering in reply toDabdab

I think your comment is rather uncalled for Dabdab. Members responded saying they hadn't heard of it and maybe you'd get a better response from a diabetes forum as victoza is prescribed for diabetes. Nobody would have known that you'd misspelt the word.

After you corrected your spelling, helvella went to the trouble of looking it up, posted what he found out and linked to it.

You've been rather rude to people who were good enough to respond and be helpful, they may not bother again.

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Dabdab in reply toSeasideSusie

I wasn’t rude and some of the comments directed at me were condescending not helpful. The helpful link was passed on to me 2 years ago by an administrator and for the life of me I cannot understand why you think it’s ok to be rude to me. And anyway where’s ‘greygoose’? That person was brilliant on here.

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SeasideSusieRemembering in reply toDabdab

I asked a simple question, if people haven’t anything useful to say, then say nothing .

I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that comment is rude.

The helpful link was passed on to me 2 years ago by an administrator and for the life of me I cannot understand why you think it’s ok to be rude to me.

Helvella wouldn't have know you'd had that link given to you 2 years ago, how could he? He took time and trouble to try and be helpful, you don't appear to acknowledge that. And I don't see any rude comments directed to you.

And anyway where’s ‘greygoose’? That person was brilliant on here.

Greygoose is still a member and contributes regularly to the forum.

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Dabdab

Let it go now.

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Dabdab

You are now making a mountain out of a molehill.

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Ali_r

Hi Dabdab

I have been on Victoza for about six months now. Combined with NDT and metformin. Prescribed by the wonderful private endo in Gatwick that people on this forum recommended.

I have an underactive thyroid and no diabetes, but probably insulin resistance etc etc. I also get rheumatoid arthritis if i eat gluten. So a whole load of the linked autoimmune stuff that is not one whole single major syndrome, but a load of semi-syndromes all in together.

I lost a load of weight very quickly (9kg or so in a few weeks on 1.2mcg). (107kg- 98g). A miracle!!! Then it stopped working, despite ramping up to the 3mg that is the highest dose for weight loss (I didn't bother to swap to Saxenda, which is the drug that uses this amount, simply added more victoza).

I am now en route to stopping it slowly. It had some side effects (tinnitus, heart burn, and diarrhoea when I increased the dose too quickly). All bearable if the drug works, but not if it doesn't. Can't find any research on why it stops working.

There's a new drug, semaglutide, that has just come out, which i will try when it becomes available in January. In the meantime i am going to slowly increase the NDT. No side effects from this so far, but latest tests showed I was still hypo.

Hope this helps. Message me if you need more info

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