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Typically, before my main meal my blood sugar is 5.something and two hours after eating it is 6.something or 7.something. A typical meal would be pork chop, boiled potatoes, carrots, broccoli, green beans, or other veg. Sometimes I have baked beans (with no added sugar) instead of veg. (I've...

Yes, I'm not getting much help from my diabetes nurse. I can't even get an appointment to discuss the problems I'm having. They say they will contact me when my next review is due. In about 5 months. I'm being rationed testing strips so I'm not able to test before and after every meal. In fact...

My last A1c was so high (87) that my diabetes nurse wants to move me from oral medication to insulin. That scares me a bit. Should I stick with Metformin and Gliclazide, do you think? The thing is, I don't trust my diabetes nurse, she has given me lots of bad advice, very little good.

Thanks. I took evidence of the regular evening hypos with me to the follow up appointment. I was advised to cut the dosage of Gliclazide and to stop testing. She was quite angry that I was testing to start with. I don't want to go back and see that same nurse again. She is completely chaotic...

I booked a follow up appointment with a diabetes nurse at my GP practice because I was having a hypo every evening after following their dietary advice at my regular diabetes review. It was obvious to me that my medication wasn't matched with the dietary changes they advised. The diabetes nurse...