Recent Content by Alzeeb

I'm in Scotland, so prescriptions are free up here anyway(not something I particularly agree with). but I find now that doctors are sometimes just very keen to chuck drugs at everything. I am big enough and ugly enough(so my mother said) to make changes to my life so that I'm not putting more...

Yeah, I thought I'd cut down reasonably on the carbs, and eat 90% wholemeal bread. cut out a lot of chocolate & sweets, I've still got chocolate left in the fridge from christmas. obviously still got work to do, and lots to learn, but fingers crossed I'll do enough to not have to go on medication

Just not keen on taking them regularly for extended amounts of time. I only take painkillers if I really need to, same with things like antibiotics. Part is that I don't like the Idea of being dependant on them, and that eventually they may not be as effective. And then there's the long term...

Hi. Probably not in all honesty;), it's not something that I really kept tabs on after the fact. A big changeover the last year is I've been working from home after being made redundant, and actually eat breakfast most days, which has been mostly cereal, so this could account for some of the...

Hiya From what I've read, mostly here, I'm surprised now too. I think I did say the same to the dr about not wanting to go on any meds then as well. I have been reading here a bit today, including your blog post, and one thing that has popped into my head is that the dr said oatcakes were...

Hi all, Newbie to the forum here. so the possibility of maybe being diabetic was raised by my doctor about three years ago when I went with foot pain that turned out to be gout, and she decided that I was too overweight and blood pressure was too high, so she ordered blood and urine tests. I...