Hi been a long while…jus curious im t2d ( insulin) and having hypertension ( taking exforge for it) . Currently on keto and intermittent fasting…past 3weeks…doctor keen to start me.with jardiance…
Was googling that its not safe to take jardiance.while on keto…
Anyone been on jardiance along with keto…pls share your experience
Hi tq for responding…the doctors in malaysia do not support ketogenic diet…hope this sub could help me
Jardiance works by playing with your glucose transporters, a little different that how metformin works. Being a type 2, is this new to you or are you freshly diagnosed? No doubt you’ll get plenty of the standard non-answer of “ask your doctor”, here’s my answer. You’re not taking it now, or haven’t been right? So rather than eat foods that raise your blood sugar… then “fix” it with jardiance, just eat keto which will keep your blood sugar happy and you won’t need the Jardiance… Easy? Yup.
You’ll find many people aren’t comfortable making their own health decisions without a doctor, which to me is a little funny as everybody here is eating a diet that (most) doctors say will kill us all. To me it’s simple math, if you’re not eating the foods that give you high blood sugar you don’t need medication that lowers blood sugar. Many people have doctors that hate keto, many others have doctors that aren’t against it, but are to afraid to be ok with it on paper. For those of us, we’ve gotta do our own research and make decisions.
Been a type 2 since 26years old and with severe insulin resistance…bdw…im 40 now.been injecting insulin shots 42units 3times a day and long acting 50…since started low.carb and now more to keto with intermittent fasting im injecting 28units x 3times a day…and long acting 30 for night…my glucose numbers are in the range of 5.5 to 6.9 but sometimes even with the same food my blood sugar reading can be 10…and tis thus will make me demotivated:expressionless:…tq so so much in responding and giving me some ideas…
The problem with Type II diabetes is not so much the excessive glucose level (although that does cause damage to the body, hence the insulin response to lower it), but rather the excessive insulin response (and the damage that causes) that develops over the years as the cells of the body become resistant to insulin. A well-formulated ketogenic diet, in which carbohydrate intake is restricted below 20 g/day, should in most cases lower serum glucose, simply because you are not flooding your body with it in the form of carbohydrate. The lower serum glucose allows the chronically elevated serum insulin to drop as well, and over time, many people report that their insulin resistance has greatly lessened or been completely reversed.
If you are experiencing any symptoms of hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar), then you can probably reduce the amount of insulin you are taking and not need additional drugs to bring your serum glucose under control. As they embark on their ketogenic diet, most patients are successfully able to reduce their insulin and other diabetes drugs, and often even to eliminate them altogether.
One of the great benefits of a ketogenic diet is that the brain does really well when fed β-hydroxybutyrate instead of glucose. This greatly reduces the risk of hypoglycaemia, because in ketosis the brain’s need for glucose is greatly diminished, if not eliminated.
Tq Paul…for explaining in depth…truly appreciate it…in malaysia we do not have keto breathe meter…the only way to test my ketones are via urine strips. So far been showing ketosis past 3weeks but i feel very disappointed when i eat the same food somtimes my sugar will be higher. And being wrongly diagnosed as type 1 since age of 26, i only found out that im type 2 two years ago. Whats positive im injecting lower now and feel loads better
Tq and i hope i will.show soon my before and after pics…