Recent Content by Jane2206

Having read the posts I'm counting myself as fortunate - no problems getting byetta ! I'm type 1 and used novarapid,glargine and metformin I was intitailly reluctant to add another needle to my life .....but have now doen a year and all is good . Nausea was minimal, weight loss increased...

I gather he is a rare find !!

have struggled with sticking to diet but success generates more will to succeed , looking into low carb diet thankfully have consultant who feels most diabetics have to much carbohydrate in diet !

I may have confused things at nearly 25 stone at my heaviest insulin was the only option to get any control and even then it was poor, there was some hope that if I lost weight my pancreas would pick things up 12 stone less and it evidently isn't going to !! so I originally said I was probably...

currently on novarapid, glargine and metformin have lost nearly 12 stone in 2 years and haven;t had surgery !! very low carb and lots of exercise still 3 stone to go .....now have a prescription for byetta and due to see GP on Wednesday to start it Feel on edge of hysteria as don't do needles...

This is my attempt to get to grips with life with diabetes in spite of 16 years of it ! Was probably type 2 but ended up being treated as type 1 possibly having 15 stone extra weight didn't help !! Have lost 12 of the 15 stone via low GI diet and exercise but in spite of forlorn hope that I...