Who takes Jardiance?

[AndyPanda]

I am seeing a lot of positive information regarding Jardiance (empagliflozin) for heart and kidney health, fitness and anti-aging. A lot of it seems to overlap a the benefits I have read about Metformin and it also appears that Jardiance is much better for your liver. I tried Metformin in the past and it wreaked havoc on my digestive system. Can anyone share your experiences of stacking Jardiance with GLPs?

 

[TexGal]

I have been using Jardiance, metformin and Reta for about 6 months now. I was at my ideal weight when I added Jardiance to my Reta and metformin regiment. The biggest change adding Jardiance is my labs. All of my insulin markers when even lower when I added Jardiance. I’m hopeful about the liver and kidney benefits. All of those tests have always been normal so hard to know if it’ll be something that prevented something I’ll never know.

 

[druell235]

No experience, but I am thinking about adding Jardiance to help lower my blood pressure.

 

[Calm Logic]

Metformin did not decrease mortality for prediabetics. So I think metformin for anti-aging is overrated.

With Jardiance, I suspect the same issue to some degree. Animal studies with the Jardiance drug class are more promising for longevity than metformin (at least for male mice, per Gemini). So still intriguing, and a good reminder to resume the Jardiance I got from India. No sides for me before.

 

[Labcat]

The more diabetic drugs you’re on, the more risk of hypoglycemia, in response to a blood sugar spike, especially as we try out the GLPs not yet fda approved that have extra high GIP potency! This means that all us diabetics and prediabetics and metabolic syndrome folks who tend to spike higher than average after meals… will tend to slam lower. Just be aware and prepare. I know someone on jardiance and metformin (not for diabetes!) and her doc added zep (which is not contraindicated btw), and she had a couple woozy episodes, luckily it was not while driving and awake and at home so her husband could bring her candy and rescue her.

Jardiance dumps sugar, so gnarly UTIs are a risk. It worked okay for me but not enough. GLPs seem to do what Jardiance does, just typically better, including cool mitochondrial benefits. Not saying anyone should not use it, but be aware that you would be moving into the range of polypharmacy with some major drugs so things bear monitoring.

 

[miss-sanne]

Jardiance and GLP's are like a god-send to the diabetic person !
your kidney, your heart, just loves it.
But I would go to my GP to get Jardiance if neeeded, just to get blood test check ups etc.