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There are a couple of problems that need to be addressed before it can be done. Firstly, it is not curing an addiction or fixing the problem. It is feeding the addiction and masking the problem. The problem still remains that they are addicted to heroin. How long before the amount given on the...

I can understand where you're coming from. Getting a worse result sucks. However, just remember that all is not lost. If you use this result to reinvigourate yourself it's always easy to 'get back on the horse'. Firstly, you need the test strips back so that you can tell where you might be...

Shot in the dark, but having worked in Africa there are a lot of NGOs on the continent. Mainly dealing with AIDS and malaria admittedly, but it might be worth getting them to an NGO camp as they tend to be better supplied than the mission hospitals. A change of diet is almost entirely out of...

Not particularly. I bought my medical textbooks off there (I wasn't going to spend upwards of £40 on a book). I also bought a racing bike. Apart from that, I tend to shop elsewhere on the internet.

Depending on the exercise. If you, for example, go for a long walk. You would 'burn off' more fat than build muscle. Fortunately, I haven't been in the situation you are facing now Johnny. But if you listen to people who have been in that situation and follow their advice you should be on the...

I've looked it up and a level that high is classed as a medical emergency, so your best bet would be to go to casualty. You'll probably be seen straight away.

I'd go check with your GP before you do anything else. Since it's your holiday tomorrow, I'd advise you (if your hospital has an out-of-hours service) to go there. If it doesn't, then take a trip to casualty. Since I think a blood glucose reading that high is classed as a medical emergency (?)...

You don't think I had to argue for them? It took mr 6 MONTHS just for the PCT to give me the time of day. Also, it's not unlimited. I'm prescribed a months worth of test strips every month. Another point, no I do not get prescriptions free I have to pay. And it's nothing like mps expenses. That...

Not really. If I didn't get them this way, I would just chase them up through my PCT. Hence why they let me take them. I don't go to the pharmacy and take them, I go to the pharmacist in the hospital who accepts that I need them to test and give them to me. I don't see that as a problem. I've...

Not really, every year our PCT gives the ward I work on far too many test strips. After the year, they essentially become the ward's property instead of the NHS's. We donate these test strips to wards that need it i.e. elderly care or the endocrinology clinic. However, we always have far more...

It's not really condescending. I'm sure you'll find a doctor who'll sympathize with you. Pre-doctoring, I had to jump through hoops to actually get test strips. And even then, they didn't prescribe me enough. But if you keep fighting, then PCTs give in. That's what they hate, people power.

It was taken during the 20s when people decided to experiment with low-carb dieting. So if you assume that it takes years to build up to CHD then you're looking at a lifetime of their pre-westerization diet. With westernization, the rates of CHD have apparently dropped (I haven't found any...

It's rarely good, that would suggest either a decrease in brain activity or fewer mitochondria. Both of which are bad. But then again, we are only extrapolating the data. In response to Graham's post. Two people doesn't make for conclusive evidence. However, a whole population living on...

See an optician. Blurred vision is rarely fine.

:lol: The benefit of actually working at a hospital is that you can either just take them (we have a cupboard full of them on the ward, along with artificial sweeteners and meters) OR you can just get somebody else to prescribe them for you.