Recent Content by Electricgeoff

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    Questions about my diabetes care

    Good evening Introverted_and_Proud, thank you for making contact. I'm possibly as old as your granddad, but proud and pleased to have got this far in life with no health worries until now. I'm sorry to hear you have Type 1, which, through reading, sounds far worse than I'm having to put up with...
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    Questions about my diabetes care

    Good evening Lupf: Thank you for your encouraging reply. I thought I was alone in all this and was having to manage things myself, so to know that's how things work, I'm encouraged to find that this might be nothing unusual. I'm not great with techy stuff and can't even order my drugs online. I...
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    Questions about my diabetes care

    Hi Rachox, me too. I've quickly scanned all the useful information and links you've sent, some of which I read in other places, other stuff which is new to me, so will take time to dissimulate, but I thank you for supply some really useful advice. I'm really looking forward to this telephone...
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    Questions about my diabetes care

    Good evening Jo thank you for your informative and uplifting reply. You are actually where I want to get to. I've always maintained I wasn't and aren't diabetic, the high readings that my medication is based on was (as the Cardiac specialist has agreed with me) caused by the stress I was...
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    Questions about my diabetes care

    Good evening Rachox, I had to remove the link you sent because the system wouldn't let me reply with that in place, but otherwise, here's my reply. Thank you for replying so quickly with advice. I've tried that one! Following the most recent blood tests ordered by the Cardiac team, I asked for...
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    Questions about my diabetes care

    Hi EllieM Thank you for replying so quickly with your advice. 1) Yes, it was an HBa1C test at the hospital, presumably when they took bloods as I went straight from the ambulance into theatre. An awful lot was going on at the time after being blue lighted from one hospital to Lincoln specialist...
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    Questions about my diabetes care

    Hi everyone, new here, but I have some questions about my ongoing Type 2 diabetes care. I had a heart attack at the end of July. Up until that day, I had been fit and healthy with none of the recognised signs of being diabetic whatsoever. The day of the heart attack, in hospital, they asked me...