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    Help applying to DLA

    What I will say is when you answer the questions answer each one as though it’s the worst day of the illness. There are points deducted for things that they are seen as being able to do. But if they can’t do them on their worst day then your answer should reflect that. We have a welfare rights...
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    Steroids. Help

    Sorry 2000 mg of glucophage
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    Steroids. Help

    Hi I am t2. Trulicity 3mg weekly and glucopage 200mg at teatime I was put on steroids yesterday for another health condition and my glucose level went up to 19 and my ketones 0.5. I never have ketones over 0.2 and I know 0.5 isn’t high but it worried me. I hadn’t eaten any carbs or sugary stuff...
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    Unexpected weight loss

    Yes I need to lose lots more weight I’m not on statins but I am on Nitrazepam 10 mg nocte Sertraline 50 mg morne Pregablin 100 mg bd Meloxicam 15 mg Od Haloperidol 5 mg nocte Promethazine 25 mg nocte Folic acid 5 mg morne Glucophage 2000mg od Asacol 800mg TDS Empagliflozin 20 mg od...
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    Unexpected weight loss

    Hi I’ve been type 2 for four years. From prediabetic to actually getting diagnosed while in hospital for 6 months. I nearly died and they did lots of investigations as it happens I have chronic obstructive sleep apnoea and my Sats had dropped to 24 They didn’t originally know why my sats had...
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    Unexpected weight loss

    Type 2 I didn’t manage to get hold of a dr today
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    Unexpected weight loss

    Ok thank you. I’m just not sure I’ve cut enough to cause that much weight in a couple of weeks I’m on so much medication for a variety of issues and I eat like it’s going out of fashion I’m just trying to eat more greens veggies etc
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    Unexpected weight loss

    Hi I’ve posted a couple of times. Once about having a sweet sometimes my urine. (Still have that. And secondly that my hba1c had gone up quite a lot. But the last two weeks I’ve noticed a weight drop of about 10 pounds I don’t know if it’s my ulcerative colitis which has flared but has never...
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    It's all going wrong for me.

    I’m sorry you’re going through all this. I’m on empagliflozin and it gave me a uti as it makes your kidneys filter the sugar into your urine to be passed out of the body. So if you’ve already got a uti then it will thrive on the sugar bacteria loves sugar. You may also get thrush. Hope you feel...
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    Hba1c has gone up a lot

    Lol.
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    Hba1c has gone up a lot

    Thank you Jo. Appreciate it
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    Hba1c has gone up a lot

    Thank you much appreciated
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    Hba1c has gone up a lot

    Following on from my post about sweet smelling urine. Test results showed that since 2019 June/July my hba1c has gone from50 to 70. Now I am on a lot of medication (extremely clinically vulnerable) these meds make me eat like crazy. And I haven’t been making good choices Dr put me on...
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    Before and after

    Awesome [emoji122] great job
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    High blood sugars metformin

    Thank you received your info. Very kind of you [emoji106]