Recent Content by Teddysmum

You need to move to Staffordshire, as I have been prescribed Rebelsus and don't want to take it. The doctor who has so far treated my diabetes, since buying out the practice, was/still is off sick, so my MOT was done by a nurse and another GP told her to order the medication, instead of...

I am 76 and know I have been type 2 for 16years, I have had no objection to statins, especially when the GP practice's nurse said that all the nurses and GPs took statins. (All were 50 ;plus). Some years ago, I suggested that my husband, also 76, took aspirin and statins, but he refused and I...

Pain meds do work for nerve pain my neurologist has prescribed lots, on trial for me. At present I am on pregabalin with paracetamol, tramadol and duloxetine. (I posted about p and p in February), but for me p and p definitely work as we went on holiday, in Wales, taking the latest bag from the...

I was admitted to A@E for severe leg pain (turned out to be lumbar stenosis ) and was already on tramadol and duloxetine for back pain, but as it was Covid time, the surgeon didn't want to operate and suggested waiting, so added pregabalin which I hadn't liked previously (large weight gain)...

I am not prediabetic but at least 14 years into type 2. I had most of those years on diet and exercise, with the latter declining for the last 5 years, because of a spine problem. After last year's spine operation, I have reduced pain in my left leg, but have nerve damage, which means I can only...

I was diagnosed statins, by my neurologist because of 'hardened arteries'. Simvastatin had no side effects for me and the NICE recommended Atorvastatin is also fine. The only problem for me is that the brand accessed by the pharmacy does vary and some Atorvastatin brands are very bitter. I'm...

I'm a food fusspot, but my husband is worse. He won't eat any fish. he likes shop ready meals (meat ones) but in the last few years, what was once nice to eat is tasteless or full of spice or some additive that causes indigestion. He won't cook proper food and has binned salad ingredients and...

Today, I looked back at my old posts and read about my house bound father (He had Parkinsons), saying , when diagnosed with diabetes, that life wasn't worth living if he couldn't eat what he enjoyed. I complained, then, that I felt there was little to eat, that was suitable and that I liked, so...

My neurological symptoms are mainly on the left, but some are both and the weirdest is a feeling that I am wearing thick socks (like motorbike riders have) with holes in the big toe part, so mine seem to poke through. It's so realistic that I have actually stuck my feet out of bed, to remove the...

I'm on a number of drugs, some of which cause constipation, eg tramadol, and the only sure way for me to 'go' is my daily easy peelers, usually clementines.

I wouldn't ask for a conductivity test, but for referral to a neurologist, who will have these tests and others to hand. Mine is really good and gave me the good news, on my 60th birthday, that I had diabetes, then hypothyroidism, arteriosclerosis, B12 deficiency and over half my spinal discs...

I was given a battery of tests by my neurologist (who eventually found my symptoms are due to thoracic disc herniations) and based on those I was summoned to our practice's diabetes nurse, who sent me for the GTT to confirm suspicions. I wasn't pregnant as I was 60 at the time.

Interesting about atorvastatin increasing blood sugar levels. Until my MOT, in July, I was on simvastatin,but was told that NICE now recommended the atorvastatin, as it's better and now more affordable. Omeprazole was also added as I'm on aspirin. In July my HbA1c was 49, but now it's 52, but...

You shouldn't have grapefruit, if on statins.

Hannah, do you have a local branch of Diabetes UK? (If Bradford is where you live and not your surname you do.) Our local has monthly meetings, usually with an interesting talk (not necessarily diabetes related, but sometimes by consultants), followed by socialising. They also have other...