Recent Content by Starchild73

Thank you for your reply, I will definitely be bringing it up with the doctor next week. It being another Pregabalin side effect wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, I'm already wandering around the world in a 'stoned' daze but I'd rather be like that than have the cripping neuropathy pains...

Hi all, wondered if anyone can help or if this sounds familiar to anyone. I finally plucked up the courage to go get tested after a massive amount of leg pain and I was formally diagnosed in March, after controlling with diet and exercise failed was put on Metformin (2000mg daily) and...

Thanks guys, I'm probably being a bit over anxious, it's just so many people have had shocked faces when I've told them about the lack of action so far. I'm keeping a food diary now, hopefully I can pin down exactly what is causing the BG to go sky rocket high :)

Thank you all so much, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who this has happened to! I'll certainly have a read around here, it seems a wealth of good info :) As regards the retinopathy check, will I have to wait for them or can I get one done myself? I've often been with my mother when she...

Thank you for that info, I'll certainly try testing myself before and after meals to see what affects me and keep a note. Having a blood sugar under 8.5 mmol/l seems a distant dream at the moment. I sometimes take diclofenac for my arthritic knee, but apart from that nothing else. I've read...

Hi all, newly diagnosed type 2, and new here, hoping for some thoughts and advice on my situation. Bit of background, in February I had an intense pain attack in my right leg one night, it scared the life out of me, worst pain I have ever experienced. Went to the doctor, who said it was cramp...