Recent Content by Taliesin

If anyone's after smoking weed and doesn't want to mix it with tobacco (by far and away the most dangerous thing you can do with the stuff if you ask me), Amazon do a variety of "herb vapourisers": basically tiny ovens that bake the weed so that the interesting components can be inhaled. There's...

Something to bear in mind is that the Equalities Act 2010 may well apply when considering problems at work...

I'd had a "structured treatment break", as they were known before we discovered that they are a very bad idea, from my HIV medication. My husband had died earlier that year and I felt I'd be better off not taking drugs at all than I would be with spotty adherence, which might lead to drug...

I stopped pretending that "one chocolate bar won't hurt" - once I collected all the chocolate in the house up and gave it to a friend, I ended up giving her the exercise bike I couldn't use as well ;-) I live as close to 100% on Huel as you can reasonably get, with a small amount of fruit to...

I had an email this morning: in the course of this year, my Hba1c has gone from 92 to 46: it's just occurred to me that I've cut it in half!

I have fairly poor hypo awareness so I was changed from 4x 80mg gliclazide to 2 x 500mg metformin five years ago. Yes, it causes a little gastric distress, but I've taken drugs that have caused way more distress and got through it. It's useful for me because of my low hypo awareness (I once...

- What is your name? Steve - How old are you? 60 - Are you male or female? Male - Which country are you from? Wales - Which city/area do you live in? Neath - Are you religious? Spiritual - Pick three words to describe your personality. Stroppy, individual, shameless - Do you have any pets? Oh, I...

Sadly that doesn't always work... I was in hospital with Fanconi's syndrome and severe malnutrition five years ago. One symptom of Fanconi's is distorted thinking, and though I'd had the sense to stop taking my gliclazide thinking that my carbs intake wasn't high enough to justify it, one of my...