I also did not do well with the Glipizide. Eventually I went on 1000mg twice a day Janumet, and 2.5XL Glipizide, it worked for a while. I recently gained 8 lbs. but not sure it was the glipizide. On my second day of Victoza, so far ok. Interested to hear what kind of reaction you had to Victoza.
Well, victoza will start off making you have nausea, vomiting sometime. You will get past this, it can take up to three months. After that I just kind of never felt right but thought I was just going to have to deal with this the rest of my life! Than about at 10 to 12 months I started to have severe stomach pain which I thought was my gall bladder. I was probably having pancreatic attacks, but never went to the hospital to have blood work; very stupid idea by the way. My PCP took me off victoza, and within a few days I felt like a completely different person. Now I'm not saying everyone will do badly on victoza, everyone is different. I wish you luck. It does help with weight loss. But don't suffer on this drug if it does not agree with you. Pancreatitis is nothing to fool with. Now since I posted my question I decreased my dose to once a day in the morning of glipizide and I immediately lost weight the next day. And I have lost .4 every a day doing this, so it does cause weight gain, but works well on my sugars and does not make me sick like every drug I've tried. I could cut it as long as I'm being good with my excercise, and low carb diet. I know how to lose weight, I've lost 30lbs last year. I think cutting my dose and doing this will work now. My sugars run between 90 and 140. I can live with this till I lose the rest of my weight. Also for all of you out there, I started cooking with protien powder; low carb. If anyone wants help with this let me know! well good luck!