Recent Content by LWManchester

Thanks. I'm going to give diet and exercise and close monitoring a good go for 3 months. Glad its working for you. My nurse wants me on statins. I'm so reluctant as I know so many people who have had issues, just my personal view tho. Thanks hun.

In your situation I would probably try to do control by diet only for a few months but again I think that would be with regular testing so I know how I was doing rather than rely on infrequent tests at the docs. Thank you for your sound advice hun. I've decided I am going to do a 3 month...

Most recent bloods were taken January and the result was 6.5. I don't do daily readings (not got a blood monitor) but the doc who advised I stop the meds did a quick check and on that day my reading was 5.4 at about 12noon, an hour after food.

Hi berylc. Funnily enough that's the book I have. He just happened to be on TV the weekend after my diagnosis. How's that for timing eh. My word.. 4yrs of it. I'm glad you have sorted it. I am really going to give it my best shot as I just don't want to be on tablets if they are going to make me...

Hi. I have thought and am actively sorting my diet but my DN nurse wouldn't just let me do diet alone. She said that if I lost weight (and I need to drop about 3st) then I could maybe come off the meds then. Thanks for the link. I will have a good look. Do you think I should refuse meds for now...

Thank you. I was starting to feel like I was making it up. The doc who said it was sciatica advised she wants me back on metformin sooner rather than later but I know it's the tablets causing my pain.... and oh boy do I know what the other side effects are :nailbiting: !!! These tablets just...

Hi. My name is Lesley and I'm fairly newly diagnosed with type 2. I was started on 1x500 SR metformin and had all kinds of horrible side effects, however when I started on week 2 2x500 SR metform I started with painful joints, lower back pain but the worst was my knee - the site of an old injury...

Hi. I am newly diagnosed and was put on 2 x 500 Metformin. I suffered terrible side effects but put up with them hoping they would go after week 3. They didn't and so my diabetic nurse told me to just stop taking Metformin and go back on 1 x 500 when my symptoms subsided. I had a bad head for...