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Both of you might have simply hit a tiny capillary, which caused the bleeding. I use insulin and you wouldn't believe the bruises I sometimes get. Also, you don't feel any pain when you hit a capillary so you don't know you've done it. If anything wet gets under the sensor, it does tend to fall...

When my dad was diagnosed in back in the 60s in his early 50s, when diet and exercise were the only treatments for T2D, he was 1.82m tall and weighed 97.5 kg. His goal weight was 77 kg. I don't know high his initial blood sugars were (I was just a kid), but they were high enough to panic my...

I was told that if I'm only taking it once a day, to take it after breakfast.

I used to work in a hospital, and the gastroenterology department did a lecture back in the 90s on treating constipation and why laxatives are a BAD thing. They were however very positive about fibre, especially soluble fibre. (They also explained that from a medical view point a diagnosis of...

Type 2 diabetic here. Well controlled on diet and medication including insulin. I'm going to be starting lenreotide this fall. I know that it can have effects on blood sugar (non-diabetics can become diabetic after use) and for diabetics it can cause either hypo- or hyperglycemia. I'd be...

I'm a T2 diabetic x 2.5 years, well controlled on diet, exercise and medication (insulin and invokamet). I also have NET lung mets with unknown primary, although the oncologist thinks it's pancreas. I'm going to be put on lanreotide, 1 shot every 28 days. I will be on it for the rest of my life...