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As soon as she knew that they were a placebo they didn't work anymore.

I remember buying bracelets for my daughter when she was about 5 and suffered a bit with travel sickness. Complete rubbish, but worked incredibly well as a placebo. We spoke the other week and she mentioned them - she is now 20 so obviously knows it was all rubbish but thought it was a great...

That is interesting. I don't think I've been treated differently after losing weight, but I was never really fat (I was 21 stone but am quite well built so it hid it really). Everyone I see for the first time in a while are shocked on how much I've lost but fortunately all my friends are...

That's really shocking treatment from your GP. I was diagnosed in 2023 with 110 - my feet felt a bit strange but I had no other symptoms. Fortunately, my GP was very nice about it and I had an appointment with a diabetic nurse which was great. However, as nice and touchly feely that...

KFC, McDonalds and Burger King have absolutely rocketed in price since I was diagnosed. I used to buy a boneless banquet at KFC and it would be £5.99 - was talking to friends and the same boneless banquet is now £9.99. They were getting it delivered using Justeat and the price of the...

I like that, "dire betes", very accurate.

Hi Maggie, I can't help with the Glicazide as I've not taken it but I just wanted to send you a virtual hug. It really isn't easy on the mental health when the figures stay high no matter what you do. I have gone through a few months of not eating much at all because I was just so concerned...

Really well done, as others have said it's easy to tell you what to do but quite hard to actually do it. I was diagnosed in Jan 2023 with 110 and was given poor advice (brown bread is fine, a handful of grapes are fine). I got it down to about 55 after 2 years (I think). I started reading...

Hope it was sugar-free coke and sugar-free polo Julie :)

Thanks for that, I find that quite interesting. I had thought that the blood test was more dependent on the later days than the first days - one of my friends goes on a crash diet in the last couple of weeks before her blood test and swears it makes a difference to the blood test, haha...

Hi Mr Happy 100, Sorry we didn't say Hi for a while, but you are very welcome here. As others have said, the DNs seem to not like recommending testing kits for Type 2. However, I was 110 in Jan 2023 and got down to about 56 in Jan 2025. I had joined this forum but not really spent the time...

I have been wearing the libre 2 for the last couple of weeks. It's estimated Hba1c shows as 30 mmol (4.9%). I had a blood test on Wednesday and the Hba1c came up as 33 so it's not too far away.

I've had a phone call today. The person who took the blood isn't a diabetic nurse at all, just someone who takes blood and measures blood pressures of people. The person who phoned me today is actually a diabetic nurse. She said that the reading had gone down, and what exactly what I...

Thanks everyone for your support it is appreciated.

Hi All, I've had my 6 monthly blood test today. I was originally 110 in Jan 2023 and the test now shows 33 so I'm really really pleased. I've been wearing a Libre CGM as I went on an all inclusive to Turkey last week and that estimated that I was 29 so it's not too far off. Many thanks to...