Recent Content by Gettingon

My family thought I was over-reacting when I bought a blood glucose meter soon after being diagnosed but I have never regretted it. Apart from anything else it shows me how my body reacts to different foods which has helped me to get my numbers down considerably. I test less now than I did at...

I went to the doc because I was having heart palpitations. At the time I was newly retired, regularly looking after a grandchild, losing weight slowly but surely (deliberately) and feeling better than I had done for years - except for the palpitations! She sent me for heart monitoring but also...

When I was taking the regular Metformin I felt very ill, had a permanent headache and very bad gastric troubles. My first reaction on switching to Glucophage SR was that I quickly began to feel more 'normal'. I still maintain that it affects my sleep, though. To begin with I had a period of...

I don't know if you have ever been a blood donor, but I have been in the past and I know I used to find the finger prick they did there very painful. The lancet that came with my Freestyle Lite (set at number 1) is NOWHERE NEAR as bad! I was dreading using it, but it's actually OK. Hope this...

Hello! I've just registered, having been looking around the site for a couple of weeks. I suppose it's not a unique story but I was diagnosed with Type 2 less than a month ago when my GP did a blood test for something else! I should probably have been expecting it, as my Mum had it for a couple...