Recent Content by Judith138

I had serious side effects on the first dose of simvastatin. After a break of a couple of years I agreed to try a second statin: the side effects took a week. I've now got a third make of statin staring at me from a shelf, waiting for me to try it. My GP (Scotland) was quite honest: the...

Also ask your doc to check your vitamin B12 levels: apparently metformin can stop you absorbing it, necessitating an injection every 3 months...B12 tablets don't help because the metformin removes the chemical in your digestive system which allows you to absorb the vitamin.

I haven't told most of my family. I'm a bit overweight (but working well on getting rid of it) and they're body fascists....I've told a few friends. But I'm shocked at the 'blame game' about T2 in the media, among professionals and in casual conversation. I'd like to see Diabetes UK do a...

I want to 'out' Diamoxal and the Diabetes.co.uk website for carrying links to the Diamoxal site