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Thank you all for your advice ☺️

I have district nurses in twice daily. My feet were fine at 4 then looked like this at 10. No pain, nothing. I had also seen my practice nurse just the day before. It came without warning that quickly.

Hi, This appeared completely out of the blue a few nights ago. The doctor has put me on a high dose of 2 antibiotics but begged me to go to hospital. The on-call vascular told her that if I don't attend hospital for IV antibiotics then it's fatal no matter what she prescribes. I have the...

I was admitted to hospital a few weeks ago. I let stress get the better of me and took a stupidly large overdose. I was unconscious for the first 4 days having fits, convulsions and by all accounts quite harrowing hallucinations. My body was going through a ridiculous amount of unconscious...

That's very interesting, thank you! I'll speak to my GP about it.

I used to put up pretty decent powerlifting numbers. But over the past few years my body has seized up really badly (can't raise arm past parallel, head stuck 8 inches forwards, legs completely seized) and pretty severe pain to go with it. I deadlifted 300kg and now cannot put on a pair of socks...

I've been passed from one antiD to the other for years without much success. Sertraline brought on the WORST night sweats ever. You could literally ring out the duvet. Venlafaxine massively increased the frequency and severity of my suicidal thoughts. The others a less severve mix of side...

When being bred as feeders for birds or reptiles they are generally bred between layers of card/other cheap dry and layered material. Their water comes from their food which is generally veg or small amounts of fruit matter. The trouble on the scale we're talking about is ensuring that they...

In theory switching from traditional animal products to insects is great for the environment and is a source of protein that's great for the poor. However, the cost and manufacture of putting the infrastructure in place to breed the quantities of inverts to western health and hygiene standards...

Is there no such thing as a shy American? [emoji23]

A nurse in the hospital said pretty much the same thing a couple of weeks ago. I've kinda accepted that this is my lot because the doctor has too. Think I need to learn to dig my heels in.

If you speak to one endo they say you're diabetic because you're fat. Another says you're fat because you're diabetic. They all say we don't know what causes you to be diabetic. Yet the world castigates us for being lazy. A lot of type 1s have a really weird almost elitest view because their...

I tried to discuss my diabetes complications with my GP this morning. I ended up tripping over the tumble weeds.

Hi @kitedoc, the practices around here only see patients from specific postcodes and my practice only has one diabetes specialist. My diabetes used to be handled by the hospital but this GP seems to want to keep everything in house. I'll maybe see if any of the bigger practices closer to town...

I was diagnosed at around 23 or 24 and whenever I saw a new GP or specialist they would ask if I was sure I was T2 because of my age but none of them did any further tests to make sure. But I guess after a decade someone would have said something if they had a concern about it. My entire body...