Complications with ACtos?

NewdestinyX · #1 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 12:02 PM

Hey gang,
I've been on the Actos™ 30mg for about 8 weeks now. Haven't had any trouble with the edema or weight gain -- thank goodness. But about a week ago I start noticing a nagging dry cough -- just a tenderness down in the lungs that I always feel like I need to clear.. When I cough it's non productive. I haven't had any viruses and I'm not an allergy sufferer.

Metformin doesn't list any side effects of upper respiratory things. Actos 'does' list upper resp 'infections'.. But I have no fever so likely not an infection. I've heard of the dry cough for Januvia.. but not Actos.. Wonder if anyone else has ever experienced anything like this on diabetes meds..

Thanks in advance.. for any thoughts.. I did about a week ago bike through a pretty massive patch of nats where a couple went in down my throat and I coughed out in the moment.. I don't think the bugs could still be there.. but hey -- maybe they scratched the alveoli a bit... Who knows..

Harold · #2 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 04:44 PM

Complications are what we get from diabetes. Side effects are what we get from drugs. Sounds like an ACE cough are you taking an ACE inhibitor?

NewdestinyX · #3 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Harold

Complications are what we get from diabetes. Side effects are what we get from drugs. Sounds like an ACE cough are you taking an ACE inhibitor?

Thanks, Harold, but no I'm not. All the drugs I'm taking are listed in my signature. No 'ACES'.

Harold · #4 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 09:41 PM

Been taking Avandia for over 7 years, same family, without a problem so far. Maybe your cough is from the season change. I know when the heaters kick in along with the dry northern air I seem to get a cough until I acclimate to the change. Then again I am a smoker so everyone expects me to cough, and tells me to have another.

Moonglo · #5 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 09:45 PM

Grant, you may be suffering from allergies that normally wouldn't have given you a problem. After all, as newly diagnosed D's, both of our bodies have undoubtedly been going through some changes relatively recently. It doesn't sound too far fetched that maybe your body is more sensitive to other things now than it was before you became diabetic. I had never had an actual flu until this year either... plenty of colds, but never a flu.

monicashell · #6 (**permalink**) 10-24-2009, 06:48 PM

I have had issues with Actos, I experienced weight gain, and EXTREME pain in my teeth and gums (had to run and get orajel immediately) after a week of being on it. I went to the dentist and there was nothing wrong with my teeth. After I was taken off Actos, weight came off, and my teeth and gums stopped hurting