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    can anyone anwer this please

    thank you liam
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    can anyone anwer this please

    hi diabell sorry for the late reply i cant understand how it went away for 6 yrs and then came back i am very underweight as every time i ate i felt ill so basically stopped eating
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    can anyone anwer this please

    Thank you for your question i felt completly inadequate i have had no support apart from my dietician i felt that i feel that this disease has completly taken over my life it controls me not the other way round i am terrified of hypos it has changed me i was very outgoing and happy; traveled the...
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    can anyone anwer this please

    good morning everyone first time of posting but ii think this is an amazing website my name is sue and i have had a complicated time with my diagnosis from 2005 i went to see my g p after feeling tired but as as i have anemia i put it down to this i did a urine sample and i was sent down to the...
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    Depressed after being told I need to go on insulin.

    1 hi my names sue i understand exactly what your going through i was also diagnosed with type 2 prescribed metformin and 3 yrs ago was put on insulin i t was very scary for me because i had never taken a tablet in my life and no one i knew has diabeties it was a minefield i ended up under a...
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    How much Lantus should I take?

    hi daisyedge 120 units does seem an awful lot itake 15 units a day but also take novorapid with meals i am as baffled with allthis as much as you i have had a real struggle with mine i have still not been told wether i am type 1 or type 2 i have gone to having one metformin a day to this and my...
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    the survey by DVLA for online form submission

    done as though we all dont have enough to do and remember
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    New to Insulin

    hi tracieott i would not wait until your levels drop i was advised 4 is the floor if you have never experianced a hypo you will certainley know when one starts you usually start feeling shaky and your heart starts to pound, sweaty and you cant think straight and you need to get fast acting drink...
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    back on insulin

    hi phil sorry to hear your feeling out of sorts i am also type 2 i think on insulin lantus and novorapid i am like you get up in the morning some days with blood levels of 20 this has started after christmas after getting a bug and no matter how i try i cannot get them down my dsn said i should...
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    Can Glucose intolerance be mistaken for type 1

    hiya diabell i was diagnosed in 2005 and it wasnot until 2011 i was put on metformin and in 2013 was put onto insulin they say it does not matter wether i am type1 or type 2 now that i am on insulin its so frustrating though because when people ask me i have to say i dont know and to be honest...
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    Can Glucose intolerance be mistaken for type 1

    i know the feeling when you are an adult somehow u cope with whatever life throws at you but when its your children it must be heartbreaking they told me when i had glucose intolerance just to monitor and thats all u can do for now fingers and toes crossed you can manage it through diet and...
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    Can Glucose intolerance be mistaken for type 1

    sorry just logged on no noinsulin nothing and then i came home from work one evening and just felt extremley tired checked my bloods and they wer 27 went up to hospital and they gave me intravenous insulin within 15 mins my bloods had come down to normal so was taken off and was sent home with...
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    Can Glucose intolerance be mistaken for type 1

    hi mooshk i was diagnosed 2005