Recent Content by c_s_k22

Thank you Route 66. I will offer encouragement and support where I can just as I have been given here. I feel it's a wonderful, safe place to be. [emoji4]

I used it everywhere. Never use my photo!! Lol

I'm sure it'll get a lot easier for you VashtiB, especially when you start to feel better. I guess it's a bit like getting new glasses - you never realised how bad your sight was until you put on the new specs. Having my disbetes diagnosis has made a lot of sense to me of niggly little...

Thankyou ziggy_w. Some very helpful information here. Didnt know about the salt/headache thing at all!

Thank you all! I feel energised like Tigger right now. Excited to take my first steps on the journey! Dont worry I shall take it slow and steady. Ask me in a month and I'll probably tell you I feel more like a sloth!! [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji2957].

Exactly how I feel Rachox! I am very positive and determined to achieve a much higher level of health and fitness. I have dieted and made half-hearted attempts at improving my health over several years but somehow now I have a real challenge and I feel I can embrace it. Us folk eh...

Erm.... I'm not sure but I'm 61, overweight and my mum had Type 2 so I guess it's pretty safe to make some loose assumptions at this stage.

Yes ziggy_w, I think you are right. Stress definitely played a role in my sugar levels. We bought a sugar monitor and I have been checking here and there. [emoji4]

Thank you for the warm welcome. A CT scan showed an enlarged kidney but they couldn't see a stone. I think a stone travelling through the kidney caused the pain which I have either (unknowingly) passed or it has settled somewhere. I have to go back for another scan and to see the...

Hi! I developed severe kidney pain recently and as it was intolerable, I contacted 111 who sent an ambulance with consequent admission to hospital. Due to the health checks performed by the ambulance crew I was discovered to have very high blood sugar levels and as a result of this have been...