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We're talking about injecting insulin, right? I use a new needle every time, twice a day. The needles are BD Autoshield, which are single use by the manufacturer's design. I'm a bit inconsistent, because the lancet I use for pricking/testing, I only change about once a month, although I test...

(1) laser (2) ???? etc. The treatment does not necessarily need to be available through the NHS. I'm searching through the web and it is laser, laser, laser. My reason for asking is that the doctors may have seen some retinopathy from my latest scan. Any treatment is a way off, but I had a...

Clearly your sugar shouldn't be anywhere near those values, how high are you when you get up in the morning? If these kind of values are typical, then it might be worth discussing with your prescriber how you can achieve better control. If it were me, I wouldn't panic about it, but I wouldn't...

What everyone has said so far is good. Also, there are a couple of different forms of metformin, plus of course, there are other diabetes drugs altogether, so maybe a different med may suit you better. Straight Metformin tends to be an opening gambit by the NHS to get your sugar under control...

I largely agree with Patti. The BP meds & statins are not treatments for diabetes, but for other things. Having said that, it's not unusual for diabetics to also have high BP/cholesterol, so those drugs may not be unreasonable. But tbh, if you want to control your diabetes, you'll need to...

hi, there's probably enough posts on here already to tell you that your problem is quite common, so I won't bang on. I had similar problems with ordinary metformin. I took them but would poo them out, seemingly unscathed, a couple of hours later. No chance to absorb them. I didn't experience...

I was a keen cyclist - hundreds of miles - seemingly fit, healthy weight, XS clothing, yet was still T2. Makes no sense at all unless you conclude that the two aren't necessarily linked. The fact that both of my parents were diabetic is probably far more pertinent. For me, T2 means testing...

I'm pretty new to this site, which on the whole I find very informative. But one thing still puzzles me: who is behind it? I mean, the recognised diabetes charity in the UK is diabetes.org.uk, and the internet naming standards say that a .co.uk suffix normally represents something with a...

That's exactly what I take, one after breakfast and the other after supper, and quite unusually, I had a hypo last night. I woke at 1am, ravenous (that's how they affect me, although they appear to affect different people in different ways). So, yes, it can happen, but no, it's not common. (I'm...

I won't use my local pharmacy, ever since they issued me with the wrong drugs, but that'll maybe be the subject of another thread... This pharmacy will work with my GP, but they won't deliver (and in fact collection is an even bigger issue than collecting prescriptions from my GP). Plus, of...

Thanks all. Yeah, my current surgery is about 3/4 mile away - I used to walk there in 10 minutes cycle it in 5, but a year or so ago I suffered a stroke so it now represents a huge distance. I'm particularly interested in the service plugged by this site, which says it will deliver to my door...

I'm thinking of moving from my current GP's surgery, because it will not support electronic prescriptions. These would be far more convenient for me than physically visiting the surgery every few weeks. I don't have much interaction with them in any case, as I see consultants at my local...

This doesn't really surprise me, a couple of years ago I was a lot lighter and was a keen cyclist. (I'll avoid saying "fitter"!) But through all of that, god knows what my sugar was. Plus, a lot of these energy/recovery bars and drinks are full of carbs and sugar - it should possibly have been...

Hi Mike, The nurses at my local hospital gave me a load of Accucheck stuff too. Mainly this IR meter. I used to be able to get the test strips for this on prescription also. I too wanted to connect to my PC, so I started investigating and found that my meter could talk via IR. I called...

Hi Kitty, It seems strange to welcome someone onto here, because I've been here less than a week myself. But I was led here by a couple of useful articles, one of which is about HbA1c - you know, what it is actually measuring, why it reflects a sugar value over a period of time etc. Strictly...

The first insulin that I took, it had to be stored in the fridge and kept there in between doses. This really only lasted a day or so while we were looking for an appropriate drug. Unfortunately I don't recall its stinginess. The second drug, which I still take, needs to be stored in the...

@Debzz_ nothing to do with your cynicism, or mine! Just heard from a nurse, the reason they say don't test to "mild" diabetics (diet or Metformin) is purely down to cost. If you can fund it yourself, and buy things privately, then I would say just "test" away. Get to know what your sugars do...

Oh Dawn, it must be very difficult having to cope with this. I had a stroke about a year ago, it makes you very self-centred (as I'm sure anything so serious would), and it's only really recently that I've appreciated what my wife must have gone through / be going through during this process...

As regards testing, I think you're right to highlight it, because I think being able to test really is the key to managing diabetes. All glucometers will measure your sugar, but the decision is whether you want stuff, over-and-above this. There is the glucometer itself, which is a one-off...

There's another thing here. In my experience, my nutrition got far richer as soon as I left hospital, and so I needed to "up" my insulin dose as soon as I left. I also experienced the flip-side of the same thing when I had to go back into hospital - regular hypos in the middle of the night...