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I have recently started taking dapa, but I am in a different situation, as I have chronic kidney disease, and only have one kidney following kidney cancer. It has been given to me on top of metformin, though, not instead. I have been started on a low doze - 5mg - and have to go for a blood...

I haven’t started on the dapa yet because I read the leaflet and, as often happens, that has made me anxious.

I have not been taking readings often, because I was recommended not to. But, tonight, I was feeling hungry when I shouldn't have been, so I took a reading out of interest and, as expected, my blood sugar levels are high. Not dangerously so - 10.5 - but still high. I have actually been...

I did manage to speak to a doctor yesterday on the phone. Not one I have spoken to before. It didn't start well, as she said that I was on the wrong dose of "dapa" when I am not on "dapa" at all and never have been. Turns out one of the other doctors had written that he was going to prescribe...

yes, I have had those on occasions, too. I just wasn't sure why it was suggested that me feeling ill yesterday was showing signs of low blood sugar.

I was feeling ill and that is why I tested my blood sugar, which was high. It was not showing signs of low blood sugar though. Even the NHS website indicates that it was symptoms of high blood sugar. It seems likely that I have suffered these symptoms several times in recent months and not...

I will eat some peanuts, because I have those to hand. A nurse phoned from the 111 service. She is not particularly worried - was questioning why I am using a monitor at all - but the computer told her that I should see a doctor within the next 6 hours, so she has suggested that I phone my GP...

I don't know what that might be. I don't have much food in at all.

I did start by phoning the doctor, but I don't think I have a diabetic nurse. I can only make appointments to see a doctor weeks in advance or at 8 in the morning. So, before it had finished with all the lengthy messages, I cancelled and dialled 111 instead, as recommended by the NHS website...

I am a bit hungry and haven't had lunch, but I don't even know whether I should be eating...

No-one has told me what to do with the readings I get on the monitoring machine I have recently been given but, just now, I wasn't feeling well. My heart was racing and I felt wobbly and tired. So I decided to check my blood glucose levels to see if it was related to that. It is showing 16.5...

I try to eat a banana every day because of the potassium which is good for me and was recommended by one of my specialist docs (I can't currently remember which one!) In the early days of the diabetes, when I was carb counting, the weetabix with milk and a banana was on my mind as 45 carbs...

I assume that is who my GP tried to refer me to, but it was rejected. I don't think I can self refer to it. But I will email them anyway, as I don't know what the GP said.... It is a bit out of date, though, since it is referring to the pandemic. Might all have changed since then! :(

It seems somewhat odd that my blood glucose was at 18.5 on Thursday. It was about 2 and a half hours after breakfast. I always have the same breakfast, which was recommended to me by the dietician years ago (I didn't really eat breakfast at all before that - just ate randomly when I was hungry)...

I phoned the Diabetes UK helpline yesterday and they advised me to contact the integrated care board, which I did, via their website, but I am not sure that will help. I don't think I can self refer to the diabetes clinic. I have been looking at whether I can do this privately - I really...