Recent Content by ramtops

I've just been diagnosed with an HbA1c of 10.6, and while the doctor wanted to put me straight on Metformin, I asked to be allowed to try to manage it with diet and exercise first, and she was happy to let me do that. The diabetes nurse at the practice backed this up this week. I wouldn't be...

Thanks all - at the moment I'm just eating less, really, and better - so no white carbs if possible, make my own wholemeal bread, lots of fruit, low fat. I walk miles - about 27 in the past four days alone (as I'm delivering leaflets for the election!), swim twice a week, with a 1.5 mile round...

I have today finally had my suspicions confirmed - I am type 2 diabetic. Apparently my blood test came back with an HbA1c of 10.6, which sounds frighteningly high to me, given I'd been "good" for 4-5 weeks before the test, but ... Doctor is letting me try diet and exercise for a while - I've...

Thanks, but the point is that I don't even have a diagnosis yet and the doctor is saying "Metformin straight away". I'm not thrilled with that.

Wow - congratulations! That's inspirational.

Thanks, cugila - given that I had to go in and ask for a fasting blood test, I don't think my potential diabetes can be too severe ...

Further to http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes%2Dforum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=14086, I called in at the surgery last Friday, to be told that the second urine test was "nothing to worry about", and that they had written to the hospital Eye Clinic about my optical pressure than the optician wrote to...

I dropped my second urine sample off at the surgery last Friday. Have heard not a word since - should I chase them up, do you think, or just hang on?

I moved house last November, and didn't get round to registering with a doctor - I never go near them as a rule, it must be about 8 years since I last saw a doc. But I had a routine eye test a couple of weeks ago, and the pressure in my eyes was just above the level that triggers a letter to...