Jardiance and Frequent Urination: What Users Say (Page 2)

• Bub...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• January 20, 2019

For Type 2 Diabetes "62 y/o male. Took Jardiance for 3 1/2 months to try to lower my sugar and help my kidneys. Sugar numbers never moved, had several penis yeast infections, up peeing all night, heart was racing for some reason, and after blood work, my cholesterol shot up. Not for me. Went on a strict diet instead to watch the sugar and the starchy carbs and my sugar finally came down. Averaging 5.8 with the Freestyle Libre system. BP dropped a bit, lost 4 lbs, but I'm not overweight, heart rate is beating right again. Awesome, since stopping that drug."

• Red...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 25, 2019

For Type 2 Diabetes "I took the 25-unit pill for two days and had a very bad reaction to it. Incredible thirst, near-constant urination, upset stomach, and diarrhea, lightheadedness. It did bring down my blood sugar for a few hours, but didn't last long. Can't recommend."

• Ste...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 20, 2018

For Type 2 Diabetes "Been on Jardiance for 7 weeks, cannot satisfy my thirst, always craving a drink. Then pee pee ongoing. Having to get up 3 times in the night for the toilet. Some days feeling lethargic and lightheaded. Plus point is being overweight I have lost 1 stone mainly around my waist in 6 weeks, so a quick fix weight loss for me. I will run with this with my side effects as long as the numbers reduce in levels and weight. The pee pee and waking me up is annoying."

• ine...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• September 26, 2018

For Type 2 Diabetes "On this med for about 8 months. A1C numbers have been good. I do drink a lot of water and some coffee and have to urinate every 3 to 4 hours. My only complaint to this point is that I awake between 3 and 4 am every single morning because I have to urinate and cannot fall back to sleep. Keep in mind I drink no fluids after 7 pm, and I am normally asleep by 11. In about a month, the clocks go back, so I could be getting up at 2 am."

• Str...
• April 21, 2021

For Type 2 Diabetes "My 3rd week of Jardiance 10 mg. In addition to Metformin & Pioglitazone for the last 10 months. In May 2020, my A1C was 10.7 & morning fasting glucose was 255. I’ve been struggling for 10 months to get my fasting glucose & weight down, nothing was working. I eat well, limited sugar & carbs, no soda, no juice, or fruit, hard cardio exercise daily for 90 minutes, nothing worked, so we added Jardiance. In just 3 weeks, I’m down 10 lbs & my fasting glucose went from 160 to 140. HOWEVER... my frequent urination is surreal! I can go every 15-60 minutes. Early mornings through noon-ish are the worst. Even before my morning 1 cup of coffee & decaf dandelion tea. Walks or bike rides result in several pit stops along the way, which isn’t easy. Is this a temporary situation? I understand the purpose is it’s flushing my liver of unneeded sugars. This is the only bonus to not working for almost 450 days due to Covid. But when I do get back to work, I have no idea how I’ll cope."

• Rob...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• June 21, 2018

For Type 2 Diabetes "I have been on Jardiance (Jardiamet) for about 8 months. It has helped me lose 13 kgs. My sugar levels are higher than they were when I was taking Diamacron, but I’m happy with the weight loss. The main side effect is the need to urinate, sometimes quite an urgent need. Rob (male)"

• ste...
• June 16, 2017

For Type 2 Diabetes "I've been feeling good while on Jardiance (Diab type 2). I take 12.5 mg each night. Same as a lot of folks here, I pee much more and am thirsty more often. Dropped the weight pretty much straight away with very little effort. I was taking Diabex before this. I've got to have a glucose test in the next week, so we'll see how it all goes. My son's a nursing student, and this is what he said about it: 'My understanding of it is that the glomerulus, which is the filtration site in the nephron (which is the functional unit of the kidney), is only designed to filter smaller particles. Glucose, however, is really big and shouldn't be filtered into the nephron. That's what I was led to believe. Not sure if that's true or not.' I'll hit my doctor up with this."

• Kor...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 5, 2018

For Type 2 Diabetes "Severe pain in both kidneys and urinary tract after taking 3 months of Jardiance, no effect on my sugars. Extreme thirst and urination."