Recent Content by Fi2000

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    Finding more difficult to control

    Thank you for ur support. I've a fon appt with my diabetes nurse on wed, I think I will dig my heels in and push for something to be done sooner rather than later.
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    Finding more difficult to control

    So the plan is to keep increasing the lantus until my fasting bg is 7 or less. At the mo I am just so fed up feeling rotten because my bg levels are so high. I am fed up with my diabetes nurse as I feel that my high bg levels could be treated faster.
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    Finding more difficult to control

    I wish my highs were only 9. I I am currently being treated as a type 2. I am currently taking 2000mg metformin, 4mg glimpiride, 2 weeks ago I started injecting lantus, am taking 18 units of lantus. I am also eating moderate carbs of between 75-150g. My fasting bg is between 15 and 19, and...
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    BG high

    They were in control and in range. Over the past year I did go lchf for 2weeks but my BG Levels didn't come down very much at all.
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    BG high

    I am taking 2000mg metformin and 4mg Glimepiride, but for the last year my BG levels are between 14 and 28. The diabetes nurse has just increased my Glimepiride from 1mg to 4 my. I am eating according to the NHS Healthy Helpings. After being told off by my Diabetes Nurse and Dietitian for eating...
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    Anyone from Aberdeen??

    I'm in Peterhead. My granny lives in Forres an aunt and cousins bide in Grantown on spey
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    Dead in bed syndrome or sleep apnea ?

    I was diagnosed with sleep apnea 2 years I ago. In my sleep I stopped breathing 56 times a hour. I now sleep with a CPAP machine to keep my airways open.
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    NHS Direct doctor says... NO testing when taking Metformin

    I got prescribed 1mg glimepiride last Friday. My Diabetes Nurse gave me a meter. Got told to test my blood when I get up an when I go to bed, and before I drive. And if I feel unwell Got a prescription for 50 test strips a month, but strangley 200 lancets a month. So tell your DN that as you...
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    Stopping smoking

    I stopped smoking 12 years ago. I got patches off of my doctor, it took me 8 weeks. The first 4 are the worst. But doing as @DeejayR said by taking it one cigarette at a time is wise advice. I had tried to stop smoking 2 years before that using the Nicorette Inhalator. But failed after 3...
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    DN's

    I've got a codefree meter so I'll use it when I've run out of my prescribed test strips. And I'll definitely be testing every time I drive. And I'm still going to test before I eat and 2 hrs after. I had got my fasting BG down to bet 6 and 7. I went on metformin 1000mg and my fasting BG has...
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    DN's

    I went to see DN as the 1000MG of metformin was giving me terrible stomach pains and urgh diarrhoea. Got told to reduce Metformin to 500mg and got a prescription for Gliclazide. So I got a BG meter and told to only test my blood when I get up and when I go to bed. And not to drive if below...
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    For cat lovers.

    I'm an Ocicat
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    WORD ASSOCIATION GAME 4

    Tickles
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    WORD ASSOCIATION GAME 4

    Sore
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    WORD ASSOCIATION GAME 4

    Portrait