Empagliflozin (JARDIANCE) 10 mg - Mechanism, precautions, side effects & uses

[@woltra1]

Please do ANOTHER video on this? (@6:11) I ALMOST DIED because I attempted KETO while taking JARDIANCE (a SGLT-2)! I had “Euglycemic Diabetic Keto Acidosis” or EDKA. My fasting blood sugars prior to my hospital admission were around 108 (yay! No dawn phenomenon!)! I only weighed at this time around 160 lbs. I was ON the keto/ketovour diet and was doing pretty good, but I was ALSO ON JARDIANCE (SGLT2)!!! That combination almost killed me!! I had been feeling sick for a few days before, and had thrown up a few nights ago (normal, not black). I thought I just had the “keto flu” you hear about, and so I just tried to push through it and ugh, boy did I feel yucky! Things finally came to a head when at about 3:30am in the morning as I was “trying” to sleep I started hyperventilating! It was as if I had tried to run a marathon at a sprinting speed, my lungs wanted to explode. My whole body was hurting and spasming. I was dizzy, too wobbly to walk or get out of bed. I also threw up then and it was BLACK... I remember thinking “Hmmm.. I don't recall eating anything BLACK! What the heck is THAT!?” I finally admitted I needed to go to the hospital because I was in so much PAIN. I also figured that the black vomit was not good, so yes please! Take me to the hospital! I was very atypical for DKA, but that is what my hospital chart diagnosed me as. This is important because Type II's are NOT supposed to get DKA! My whole body was hurting and spasming. I remember vaguely the ride to the hospital, being rolled out of the ambulance into a metal room (or maybe just metal doors, I don't know?”) being lifted/transferred to the hospital stretcher, then rolled into another room, then a team of about 8-10 ER staff all surrounding me. The questions were “what was that from” (from me groaning in pain) “where does it hurt” (everywhere) “can you be more specific” (ok I'll try... my back, my stomach, my legs, my feet...) “do you have pain in your chest?” (yes, but its my lungs, my lungs hurt). I guess they were trying to figure out if I was having a heart attack before they did anything else. After a few more groans in pain they said “Lets get her some morphine” and I immediately got some relief. But I was still breathing REALLY HARD, that didn't slow down until much later on. The rest of my time that next 24 hrs is kinda a blur. I was trying to sleep, but they were waking me up trying to prick my finger to see what my blood sugars were doing every hour, and they were drawing blood for labs (SO MANY LABS), and they were waking me up to see if I could do any physical therapy, and I had to ask them to please UNTIE ME from the machines & IV's (h2o & glucose, & insulin) from both elbow pits had to follow me, and I needed to be unhooked from the compression leg thingies keeping both legs down to help me get to the toilet so I could pee. I wasn't allowed to eat or drink for 24 hrs. They didn't even want me sipping on water (only allowed to chew/swallow ice chips), because THEY were giving me water via IV and they needed to know exactly how much water went into me, and then as I was peeing into this container they were measuring how much fluid was coming out of me as well. Ugh. I'm just tired again just writing/reading this all. Ok, next phase. Next day I am transferred to the regular hospital floor. I'm off the IV's, but NOW they are now giving me insulin shots! But I am SO dismayed because I did not WANT insulin shots! The diabetic educator was trying to convince me I needed insulin shot prescription. I started to shut down and not share or communicate with her anymore. I was being a pain-in-the-butt because I kept insisting I did NOT want insulin shots! We were at an impasse. They were looking at me like I'm crazy. And I was just having SUCH a hard time. I do over react to stress and that can make my BS go UP like 100 points. Shots/pokes/jabs drive me crazy! I have a complete meltdown internally, meanwhile outside I'm trying to hide that. My poor sons inherited this from me. When they get labs drawn or get a shot they faint! They are fully grown men and they are fainting! One time I was trying to show my younger son how my glucose monitor worked so I pricked one of his fingers.... AND HE FAINTS! So ya, they inherited that from somewhere, and that somewhere was ME! Now I'm getting “poked” more than a hundred times a day it seems! And they have me on insulin, for the first time in my 10 years with diabetes I'm on insulin. But to tell the truth the insulin DID SAVE MY LIFE!!! AND THE GLUCOSE ALSO SAVED MY LIFE!!! How confusing is that?!? Ya! It's confusing! Anyway, I'm having a hard time because what I WANTED TO DO (do Keto, no insulin!) was not what THEY wanted me to do. I am battling the medical establishment.... AND MY HUSBAND THE DOCTOR TOO. So now it's the next day and I will be discharged from the hospital. We have a meeting with my ER doc. And he had consulted with some other hospitalists & endocrinologists. They very clearly decided that my problem was NOT the keto diet! My problem was the JARDIANCE ON the Keto diet! They released me saying “No insulin, NO JARDIANCE, no invocana, no Metformin, no Glimepiride , you can do Keto” WOW! Yay! So now instead of spending more than $800 a month on diabetes prescriptions I'll instead be spending that money on LOBSTER and eating that with BUTTER, and I'll have a side of RIB EYE to go with that!!! Cartman of South Park was correct!!! “Tell the President to have a little steak with his butter!” But in more seriousness, I love low glycemic veggies, love fish, other healthy proteins, so still incorporating the parts of Mediterranean Diet but I'm going to do it keto style. I just LITERALLY CANT have more than 20g of carbs per day, so the "red wine" sipped while eating "french bread" w cheese & "grapes"...nope! the only thing I can have from that list is the cheese. I hope I survive this new diet! Wish me luck! We will see!! So anyway I'm writing all of this with the hopes to GET THE WORD OUT!! I was looking out the window of my hospital room as we were talking with my doc (and I am wondering how many others like me were out there, struggling & hurting), & we were sharing that multiple ER staff persons were saying “we see this all the time” and I'm thinking “Well, that is WAY TOO MUCH then!”. And the ER doc was saying “well, its not all the time, maybe once a month...” and I'm still thinking “THIS IS STILL IS WAY TOO MANY!!” People with type 2 diabetes (or more accurately should be called "insulin resistant") are out there, and some of them are on an SGLT2 and they are getting SICK while they are trying to get healthy! AND they are also getting really SICK AND TIRED of this disease PROGRESSION!!! Do we keep going with this PROGRESSION? Do we lose our sight and go blind? Do we lose our Feet? (I've got horrible neuropathy in my feet! I'm scared!) Our legs? My thumb? (because that is constantly hurting me and is numb. Is my thumb dying and am I going to lose my thumb?) How far and how long are we going to let this disease PROGRESS?!? Can we get off the merry-go-round of... gain more weight->become insulin resistant->have higher blood sugars->take insulin shots->gain more weight-> etc and on and on? No people! NO!!! We are TRYING TO GET HEALTHY! We go to the store, we buy the GOOD stuff, we learn to cook it the right way and say “oh DANG, that is YUMMY!!!” So ya, back to my point, how many type 2 diabetics out there ON JARDIANCE (or other SGLT2's) who want to give this Keto/Carnevour thing a try? Because I tried it 3 times, 2 times I failed MISERABLY.... because I was “SICK” sick & likely about to go into EDKA back then too! And I stopped it by giving up & eating CARBS (and thereby continuing on with my disease progression) not by GETTING OFF JARDIANCE!!!!! I have a HUGE question..... HOW MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED WITH KETO FLU WERE ON JARDIANCE or other SGLT2's? I would seriously LOVE to see a survey done to ask that question! I'm writing here because this IS THE TARGET AUDIENCE!! Please help me get the word out!!! GET OFF JARDIANCE or other SGLT2's if you want to STAY ON KETO/CARNEVOUR!! Medical providers DON'T KNOW! (I've heard recently of 2 cases where dr knew this person was doing serious keto, and prescribed Jardiance anyway). Patients DON'T KNOW! Why would it be dangerous if we are eating HEALTHY?!? So, we STILL need to get the word out!! Thank you for uploading this video! Thank you for reading this! Stay safe! God Bless! Note: I had been on Jardiance for a long time, and I DID lose a lot of weight on it, BUT my diabetes was STILL PROGRESSING! Jardiance was NOT CURING MY DIABETES! It was only treating the high blood sugar symptoms. What I need to do instead of taking MORE INSULINE, is I need to LOWER the amount of insulin in my body! Please look into content from Dr Jason Fung who is helping people REVERSE TYPE II DIABETES.. and also Ben Bikman who is also helping people REVERSE TYPE II DIABETES!!! Even the American Diabetes Association (ADA) finally admitted that its possible to REVERSE TYPE II DIABETES. I'm basically OFF all meds, and I'm working HARD to keep the blood sugars down. OH! and ALLULOSE!! Allulose the sweetener will LOWER MY BLOOD SUGAR (according to my CGM), Ben Bikman did a video on all the sweeteners out there, and allulose is his favorite #1, and it's mine too!!! Ok, sorry this is WAY TOO LONG! But a lot needs to be said on this topic! Thank you for reading this!

[@lanewoldum8678]

Agree this is a valuable subject to discuss and could save lives!

[@angelaraeinwi8665]

I am sooo glad you, Lane and your doctors got all of this figured out!!!!!!!! People need to know this!!!!!

[@woltra1]

@@angelaraeinwi8665 I know seriously!! Now that I know YT/Goog isn't the one censoring me I gotta figure out why Dr Berg's channel is censoring me? I already sent them an email and got a response from them basically saying "thanks for trying to spread awareness"?!? And THEY are the ones censoring me? So NOW its time for ANOTHER email asking WHY they don't want me telling my story in their comments section?!? I'm so confused! This is REALLY IMPORTANT and people who are diabetic and are on SGLT-2's are maybe NOT happy with continuing disease progression, they might want to change their diet to become more healthy, restrict carbs (which is why they are "insulin resistant" in the 1st place) and try Keto..,. but their life could be in danger! Why would you consult your doctor if you are going to try to EAT HEALTHY? You don't! That's the truth!

[@angelaraeinwi8665]

testing

[@woltra1]

I can see your "test" this time I'm not replying to you but to "myself" we will see if you can see this.

[@roseking84]

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