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Why is it that people on here are intent on bashing GPs? Why do people with diabetes always want to keep massive stocks of insulin, strips, etc? Clearly here the doctor is prescribing an adequate supply of insulin, if more were prescribed it would either mean you need closer...

Re: Family Guy & Diabetes Jokes! Looks like diabetes affects the skin too. Clearly makes it very thin!

The one who prescribed it is the one to ask as they know best!

Hi, Guys! You don't need to tell DVLA if your diabetes is controlled by diet. BUT if you start on medication you MUST tell DVLA. The usual respomse (if you don't have hypos and are treated with tablets only) is that your licence will continue to age 70, as long as if your condition worsens...

Re: HOW CAN THEY PUT ME INTO ESA WRAG GROUP WHEN MY WIFE IS The reason that you were put into the ESA WRAG group is simply this......................you are thought to have a prognosis that you will live longer than 6 months!!!!!! Seriously! The only people put into the 'supported group' are...

It's a gusher!! Me too on the odd occasion.

Menarini diagnostics have recently sent me a Glucomen LX Plus meter and it came with their finger pricker which has a circle of raised plastic 'dots' around the lancet hole. the theory is that the dots press onto the shin and the nerves sense that, and when the lancet pricks the finger the...

My diabetes nurse used this term which I find most helpful. "Whatever you eat, make it hard for the body to get at the sugar" ie Brown bread not white, poridge not cornflakes etc. Works for me, anyway.

Best thing I have done! The tablets were no longer effective so the choice was limited. First thing - the needles are TINY. Just 4mm long and extremely thin. you hardly feel a thing. and completely non threatening. The injection pen is nea. tReally, honestly, nothing to worry about. :thumbup:

Wind, tummy upsets, laxative effects CHECK! Tried a bar when diagnosed first, well remember the reults......all of them. Never touched the stuff since. 2 memorable brands were Boots and Thorntons, and neither tasted like Cadbury's. Moderation is good. Chocolate in moderation is good. The...

Re: Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabete Yes, I am glad that I am the person that I am today. Even though my mum died through diabetes complications when I was 15 and she was just 52, I knew her love, and would not have it different for myself. I applaud finding reasons to...

Hi, I have been type 2 since 2001. Everything is very new, strange, and probably more than a bit scary just now. This is normal. As you have just been diagnosed, the medics will try and see what your 3month test (the Hba1c) shows as regards to establishing what your levels are at present. They...

Hi, don't get too hung up if you need antidepressants for a bit. it is far more common than you think to get depression with diabetes. I get it periodically, have done for a number of years. Classic symptoms are not wanting to go out or not wanting to speak to people. Take heart - it will...

Yes, get real! So you have diabetes, not a diagnosis of a terminal illness. You are recently diagnosed. You will experience many feelings from 'why me' to downright despair and eventually you will come out the other side with the reaisation that you have a condition as opposed to an illness...

Hi, if it's any help, all oils raise my BG. If I eat fish an chips for instance, my BG will go from around 6 up to around 19-20. Just don't eat it anymore.