Recent Content by Ronniemoo

An experienced 111 doctor that I spoke to. About the dizziness said ‘Have you had enough to eat and are you hydrated?’ I don’t think she even asked. In the end she said I will send you for a clinical examination in four weeks, we have left the practice!

GP surgery - is this ethical? I have been with my GP surgery for 5 years. I have only been ill once in the first year. Last year they weighed me and sent me on a NHS pre diabetes course. I was only slightly in the pre diabetic range and needed to loose about 5kg in weight. I found the course...

I was in hospital having had my appendix removed, feeling really rough but I thought I’d better try and eat something - asked for jelly and yoghurt, the jelly was sugar free but the yoghurt was loaded with sugar! Sometimes you just can’t win.

I’m female, 67, I was diagnosed as being pre diabetic at the beginning of the year and was doing well on a low carb diet. Last week a spanner was thrown in the works! A severely upset stomach turned out to be appendicitis and I had my appendix removed. The hospital visit was not great as I...

My fasting blood sugar level was 6.2 this morning. I don’t do too much testing as I don’t want to become neurotic about it and have fingers full of needle pricks but I do realise that more frequent monitoring might give me a better picture of what is going on. Do some people remain pre diabetic...

I was diagnosed as being pre diabetic in December and immediately altered my diet. I am attending a NHS diabetes course at present. I am losing weight steadily and generally feeling well if a bit tired at times. l have been doing as much exercise as possible but am limited to a certain extent...

Thank you very much for the helpful replies.

Hello, I have recently been diagnosed with Prediabetes and have been carefully watching my diet. I have been concerned that sometimes after breakfast I get shaking hands. I was concerned about this and bought a blood glucose monitor. I don’t want to become obsessive about testing my blood sugar...

I had Covid in October 2022 and was diagnosed as pre-diabetic a few weeks later. It could be a coincidence but it is interesting.