Recent Content by RoseLin

Personally, I let the doctor prescribe metformin and test strips, seeing as I cannot have have the test strips alone !!! Then simply don't take the metformin! I hate to suggest this solution, and the cost to the NHS of the wasted metformin, but if they make these insane rules which deny us...

I so wish you folks would bother to write what SPD is at least once in a discussion. Doesnt it matter to you that so many people will have no idea what ytou are talking about???

I would really appreciate some opinions about changes I felt happen quite suddenly about three years ago. Could my own behaviour have triggered my diabetes??? Four years ago I was simply a very fat 50 year-old woman (about 18 stone, big belly, no exercise, on/off smoker) with slightly raised...

I have had this problem too, and find it utterly frustrating! :evil: Although diagnosed a year ago, I have been in denial about it all until very recently. I just couldnt get my head around the fact that I should take this thing seriously when I couldnt see or feel any effects from it, and...

I believe popcorn is almost pure starch, (grind corn up and you have cornflour), which is not great on a low carb regime. But... given that it swells so much when popped, and has so little weight to a bowlful, if you dont eat huge quantities it can a good friend if you need a snack, far better...