Recent Content by luminox

Julie,,,it was lovely reading all of the comments that resulted from your posting.. I take blood pressure tablets which have successfully controled my blood pressure for many years and had my 6 monthly blood test about 3 months ago. As previously posted, the nurse asked to see my regarding my...

Thank you again, I have printed off the Atkins diet which I am well please about having tried my own version of it before I am confident I could manage that ok but I have to say that I am probably about one stone overweight. I am 5' 6" and weigh 13.4. If I remember grapefruit is not advised but...

Thanks for this comprehensive guide. Having only diagnosed a couple of days ago and having read pages and pages of Diabetes related information I am more scared now than I was before. Talks of keep ypur feet in good order, dont bump yourself, amputation, blindness, heart failure, hardening of...

Viv what can I say but thank you so much. At last some helpful communications which I feel my Dr has failed miserably at. I do consider myself to be fairly healthy, in my 67 years I have only been in hospital once to have a knee replacement and I suppose these things have to start sometime. I...

I have just retruned from my seeing my Doctor. 4 weeks ago I had a fasting test. The first IGT results were. Before test 6.6 after 12.9 The second IGT results were Before test 6.2 after 11.1. My Doctor announced that I was Diabetic. To say the least I was shocked as since the first test...