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Hope all is now well. I didn't realise it at the time but I'd been having similar low readings for a long time and it was only discovered when the nurse showed me how to use a new meter. I didn't feel unwell but it read 1.6 and the clinic was in pandemonium. People pushing glucose tablets...

Hi Scott and thank goodness for that. The page I was looking at was http://www.elkaylabs.com/vacutest-urine-collection-c-375.php. but my last comment still applies.

My annual review was this morning and I had been given one of the new container kits for my customary urine sample. As I wasn't certain how to use it I went on line and ended up on the website of Elkay the suppliers. There weren't any instructions but there was a price list and believe it or...

I enjoy a sugar free sweet now and then and whenever a friend comes over from the US she brings me a selection. We used to see the odd mint over here but now nix. I am told Werthers have introduced something but the choice in the US is huge.

If I ask to see a doctor about my diabetes I'm told to see the nurse and as it was at the suggestion of the nurse I stopped taking my gliclacide. I've had type 2 since 1986 and am well versed in my diet. My blood sugar level is galloping up and I'll be back on my pills by week end and I'll get...

According to a friend of a friend it might be a case that I have assumed my HbA1C was around 7 as when I look back my diabetic nurse has always said it was OK and well controlled but never quoted the actual figure. It could be that my HbA1c has actually gone down and that there is a possibility...

Hello I recently had a routine blood test and according to the nurse everything was OK as usual. I usually have an HbA1c about 7.0 and it has been for years. The nurse asked if I’d had any hypos recently and when I said no she asked if I’d ever had one or if I would recognise one. When I...

Hi I’m T2 and this happened to me a few years ago and I only found out when the specialist nurse was showing me how to use my new meter and I was at 2.1. Up till then I didn’t have any idea I was getting so low. She went ballistic as all the records from my annual check were showing good...

The dietician told me that it's the hard to digest bits..nuts and seeds etc in Burgen that make it good for BG control and the same applies for some "no added sugar" mueslis. Lidl do a good one...or it is for me. Alan

I too was backwards and forwards to differant retail opticians until a really knowledgable chap at Specsavers told me I had the beginnings of cataracts and although the condition was still only mild that together with my T2 diabetes and differing bg levels would make constant vision very...

........and here's me thinking he didn't have two pennies to rub together. I know he was born in Blackpool but he's a scouser at heart. Tightwad...my a**e!!

I saw a documentary on the discovery of insulin a long time ago and if I remember correctly the first guinea pig was a girl in her teens on her last legs and she went on till she was 76. The industry has come on a tad since then but the ball is still at your feet.

When I read posts like this it puts everything into perspective and I realise what brilliant work this forum does. It should be NHS funded never mind about the paintings and statues. Alan

Hi Russell Good to hear from you but sorry about the wake up call. One good thing though you heard the alarm bells ringing...now it's sort yourself out time. Best of luck with it! Alan