Recent Content by carlos

after some general advice or just seeing if anyone else has had this problem im type 1 about 4 week ago I was sent to hospital as my bloods were all over the show high blood pressure and had low red and white blood cells and a very high plasma 224 after tests they told me it was a infection and...

agree with your post somewhat after totally changing my diet for the last year to a low carbat first this worked brilliantly and lowered my bs but slowly they started to rise again my collestrol was rising etc after changing ta semi low carb biet like yourself my morning readings are down from...

have just returned from the docs feeling very dissapointed three month ago had a reading of 8.3 and was given 1 meterformin a day this has come down to 6.9 although have beteer avgs on machine also my collestral was 5.0 the only reason i can possibly think of for my collestrol shooting up is all...

Re: statins a copule of years ago i used to take atrostavatin 10mg then my old docs changed this to simstostavatin 40 mg a day i had terrible muscle cramps dizzines and pain in my legs reported this to the doc imediatley and was placed back on atrostavatin have since come of them and touch wood...

excellent well done you must be well chuffed hope can get mine down to that thats brilliant

Re: metaformin .......here goes this is just my own thought from what my doctor said but 4 a day seems a very high dose to start with if you dont mind me asking what was your hsblc i have with i have just been replaced back on meterformin 1 a day till go bck in august my hsblc was 8.2 after a...

i know there has been posts on here before about travel insurance and most prob panicking about nothing but after a disatsrous six month am bck on medicaition for my diabeates i take 1 meterformin i am going away in 1 wk to egypt have today rang the insurance company and they have said that...

ye thanks have sorta started snaping out of it and gettin a grip anyway been to docs latest one with my bs were 8.2 all things considered dont think that is sky high not good and needs sorting been put bck on one meterformin sr and told to go bck in 4 wk so will wait and see

since last november wen a very good freind of mine passed away have somewhat lost the plot got of tablets and got an hsblc of 6.3 have just completely lost it feel very stupid and am kickin myself last couple of wk have started to snap out of it and have started checkin bs again am very...

i dont want to waffle on about myself this is just a question in general why is it every time you go for a jab say like the flu jab 3 or 4 days l8r your bs always seem to rise and stay up for about 3 or 4 days and stay up even though you feel fine ive just had tetnus hepitits b and typhoid and...

as anybody else had this problem diagnosed last yer was on 3 meterformin managed to get of them and last hsblc was 6.3 without the met however since then have somewhat losed my way not badly bbut are finding buiscuits cakes drink harder to resist and bs are spiking up more and more am trying to...

ye i do agree as well with cugilas post although its my feelin what works for you is great there has to be some diet change you cant exsercise every time you have a meal for the rest of your life what happens say when your on holiday etc you need to know what foods work for you and what dosent...

ive found exsercise a great help since being diagnosed but have found that it will drop your bs but from my own experience if you eat a lot it will only drop it for about 30 mins to 1 hr then it will rise again saying youve had something startchy etc like the above posts i strongly agree its...

thakyou i am very glad at this although it takes me out of the 5s this is my first one since coming of medicaition my next goal is to try and get bck into the fives but considering my avg readings were 21 22 in febuary am very happy with what have acheaved merry xmas to everyone and thanks for...

just got my results today and my sugars were 6.3 so am quite glad been told dont need to see doctor and to make an appointment roughly at end of april for next bloods so phewww