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I got rejected from the trial because I had to answer that I had had cancer treatment in the past two years. In fact, I have been taking a daily leukaemia pill for the past seven years with almost perfect control. Anyway, my GP has prescribed Jardiance, which goes some way to alleviating the...

I have posted my AscendPlus envelope, so I will wait to see what happens. Some posters suggest that the placebo is aspirin. I would have thought this most unlikely. I take a leukaemia drug that is contraindicated with aspirin. This would also upset aspirin dosing. The placebo has to be inert.

Things become difficult to manage as you accumulate various conditions. There may be contraindications between different drugs. Certain foods may be banned for certain drugs. My best way forward has been to avoid most highly processed products. I do eat cheese and gluten-free bread otherwise I...

Diabetes is high risk but not in itself very high risk. I have received the letter identifying me as "someone at risk of severe illness if you catch ... COVID19" because I have chronic myeloid leukaemia. My letter is "evidence for your employer that you cannot work outside the home". The letter...

I did the Open University course "Living with Diabetes" SK120.

I would discuss night sweats with your GP. It could be helpful to have you white blood count checked.

Interestingly, there is a more sophisticated USA tool here: https://myhealthcheckup.com/cvd/?lang=en That makes my heart age 63.8 against the NHS calculator which makes me 81. I think that the NHS tool was probably produced by an intern or an undergraduate project.

And if I take out my blood pressure drug, I drop from 69 to 64.

Thank you. Good idea. If I lie and say I do not have diabetes, the heart age drops from 81 to 69. It is still high of my real age of 62. My GP tells me that I am so well controlled that it is as though I do not have diabetes. I suspect that the tool is misleading.

I am worried about the NHS Heart Age tool at: https://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/heartage.aspx I am 62 and it gives me a heart age of 81. Can this be correct? I have Type 2 diabetes, I am slightly overweight BMI 26.4, and I take one blood pressure pill (Losartan). Are these adverse factors really...

I know this is an old thread but I found it though a Google search. My GP has reduced my Metformin from 4 a day to 2 a day. My old habit of weeing all night is returning. My visit to the diabetic nurse is several weeks away. The GP is so pleased with all of my results that he is reducing my...

It is difficult for coeliacs trying to grab a midday snack. So many salads are bulked out with pasta. Pret a Manager does quite well with salad selections but there's not always a pret at hand regionally outside of London.

GP has signalled that I am no longer diabetic. Metformin dosage halved. I am not so sure that that is a good idea.

Key is to avoid nearly all processed food.

I swim 2,500 metres of front crawl four times a week. I am not keen on group exercise so the swimming serves my purpose well.