Recent Content by g0mrl

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    Tickling feet when high,

    Tickly feet and hands were the first symptoms that made me realise there was a problem - namely Type 2. So I went to the doctor. I've never had it since - the medication has always kept my blood sugar sufficiently low to avoid the tickles.
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    Sharps bin!

    I get my bins on prescription from my GP. I dispose of full bins at my Diabetes Clinic (not my GP)>
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    Sugar Free Meringues

    Sugar free meringues sounds ike a contradiction in terms. If they have no sugar, they aren't meringues!
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    sugar free biscuits

    I think so called diabetic biscuits are always awful, not worth considering. Peobably made of lo-carb cardboard. Folk give me them for Christmas - I wish they wouldn't waste their money.
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    Pens - Consistent?

    A daft TYPO in my original post - I am of a course, a Type 2! Sorry.
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    Pens - Consistent?

    I wonder if any of you have wondered if the potency of the insulin delivered by each pen is consistent?? I'm a Type 1 and squirt myself at bedtime, at present 16 units, and also take slow release Metformin and Gliclazide. I eat at much the same time in the evening and rarely have anything...
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    breakfast

    Vicky - thanks for your post. My weight has been very stable for several years, but I would love to weigh a stone or so less. I have struggled with this for years, but weight loss has been negligable. I just can't work out why breakfast is so sacrosanct. Varying my breakfast is about the only...
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    breakfast

    I find agave IS okay. The whole breakfast situation interests me. Historically, I have never eaten much breakfast, and I find doing without it is the easiest way to reduce my total food intake. I find that if I DO have breakfast, I only want my lunch sooner; if I have no breakfast I can last...
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    Honeymoon Period

    Beth, I don't understand the question. Please be a bit more specific. Best wishes - L.
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    What BG meter

    My local diabetes clinic recently gave me a meter (when I moved onto injecting as well as pills), and when my finger pricker packed up, I rang Bayer, and they sent me a meter and pricker for free - so now I have 3 meters! I get the Accuchek strips on prescription; I do about one test a day...
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    Errectile Dysfunction

    The dose is marked on the pill, it's on your prescription, and on the box. 10mg is not the maximum - I've been using 20Mg for literally years!
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    Errectile Dysfunction

    Tattyjacket - are you sure about 2.5 Mg?? I thought Cialis only came in 10Mg and 20Mg sizes. I get 8 20Mg tabs every 8 weeks. Two or three times that would be much better - you could then be at the ready continuously, and still way below what seems to be the max allowed dose (I tab every 24...
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    Errectile Dysfunction

    It's not libido that's the problem! The desire is there all right, but the equipment goes on strike. To go back to the original post, I also have found that things don't work as well if I'm lying on my back. If I turn onto my side, and face the object of my libido (!) I seem to function...
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    Errectile Dysfunction

    I was diagnosed Type 2 about 15 years ago, and ED appeared at much the same time. The first treatment I used was penile injections - very effective, and as the need is great, nothing like as daunting as you might think. Then Viagra came on the scene, and worked well for me. And then - Cialis...