Recent Content by toomanyairmiles

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    Squeezing blood out and BG readings

    I had a great deal of trouble getting enough blood out of my fingers - I called Bayer (who make my meter) support line and they advised that there is an alternative head for the finger pricker which has a wider aperture and allows you to use the heal of your hand or your stomach rather than a...
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    Squeezing blood out and BG readings

    There is a layer of fluid under your skin, the lancet is designed to go through it without releasing the liquid - if you squeeze you are in effect diluting the blood sample.
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    Where did I go wrong . . .?

    You know I recently paid £80 quid to a private hospital for a full range of blood tests - all the ones that doctors don't usually do. It turns out that I have a critically low Vitamin D level 22 when it should be 75. I've since started taking a supplement and I feel so much better it's amazing...
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    Help! I don't want to medicate.

    Why is it you don't want to medicate, what have you got to lose? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
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    Type 2 Needs help

    Stillo, this is awful. As everyone else has said, you must change your doctor, whomever this GP is has utterly failed you. Please do not feel like you have failed them I could not tolerate Gliclazide or Metformin but did some research and forced my GP to prescribe Diamicron SR and Glucophage...
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    Upcoming HBA1C

    I was diagnosed a year and a half ago and worried a great deal about this. GP's, Nurses and Endocrinologists gave me a lot of contradictory advice and in the end I spent some serious cash going to see a well respected private Endocrinologist. Well worth it! Here are a few things he told me...
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    Can people explain how they feel during hi's and lo's?

    Highs for me are like brain freeze - I feel them in the bridge of my nose. It's an odd slightly bunged up sickly feeling. Lows I usually notice when I start to stammer, it's a vacant feeling, you can't quite think, the world is in slow motion.
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    really bad rage

    I also found this article which might help, again, you should realise that this isn't unusual and you're not alone. Psychosocial Issues for Children and Adolescents With Diabetes: Overview and Recommendations http://spectrum.diabetesjournals.org/co ... 6/1/7.full
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    really bad rage

    Insulin is a hormone and there may actually be a medical solution for this, have you talked with an endocrinologist about it? Also as this indicates http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Sit ... 797P1.html it's not unusal and you're not alone in this. I'm a type 2 adult and I definitely went...
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    Victoza - Side Effects

    Hi Everyone, I've recently been prescribed Victoza, and started taking it this week. The first couple of days were a bit odd, some passing nausea and episodes of low blood sugar that self resolved, some muscular pain in my legs which continued until I upped the dose to the full 1.8 migs. Only...