Recent Content by Chrissie18

You also need to identify/highlight than anyone with a BMI over 26 who is therefore clinically obese is much more likely to experience a poor outcome. The message should be if you are fat, eat less, move more. This message has been going out for years now, but is not being taken seriously. If...

I have lost 4 stone, I go the gym 5 sessions a week with a combination of weights and mobility classes, and swim over a mile a day. My HbA1c continues to deteriorate, my cholesterol remains over 5 at 5.6 no-one believes I am a type II diabetic, it is now 20 years, diagnosed 1999. Sometimes you...

Rant away this is partly what this forum is for, support. Most of us have bad days and go through blips, but you do need to build a relationship with your diabetic nurse they should be more sympathetic that your doctor, I am presuming here you live in the UK? Every day is a new day. Fell off...

Depends on your source of oil and whether it contains tetrahydroCannabavin or not. It is the tetrahydrocannabavin that provides the hallucinogenic effect. However years ago I took part in a project to see if cannabis oil minus the tetrahydrocannabavin would have any effect on fibromyalgia...

High blood sugar interferes with the glomerulus filtration rate. Inside the kidney there are thousands, hundreds of thousands of tubules through which all the blood in your body is directed, these glomerulus filter out toxins such as urea a by product of protein metabolism. They also maintain...

I feel your pain, because it is not just the general public it seems to me half the medical profession do not understand the complexities of the disease either, including the so called celebrity doctors who claim to be able to reverse diabetes, well you can't you can put it into remission by...

This is an interesting conundrum, I am a type II since 1999, and my HbA1c has remained pretty stable fluctuating only if I allowed myself to gain weight. However last year I did the 5K Swimathon for Marie Curie, watched my diet very carefully, cut my carbs right down to a maximum of 30g a day...