Recent Content by waltzingmatilda57

If you're getting stressed, anxious and depressed about what may or may not be 'normal' blood sugar readings then all you will be doing is raising your BG levels. I do not know of anybody who is not diabetic who tests their own blood, several times a day it seems, even as a T2 I have only...

Something similar happened. Had my HbA1c done a couple of months ago before a visit to the dietician. Nurse apparently filled in wrong forms and I got basic blood test results instead of HbA1c and fasting BG's. GP wasn't bothered by it and didn't ask for it to be done again. Since...

Hi I had my gall bladder removed after two long painful hospital stays cause by an infection, IV antibiotics, the lot. I'm now T2 but have never been told of any connection. I had one very large gallstone (which I still have) and it's larger than a nutmeg!

My dietician advised me to eat wholegrain bread, not wholemeal, as it has a much lower GI. I'm T2, diagnosed in February, not on any medication, but as my GP doesn't believe in testing unless you're on meds, I have no idea of what it does to my BG! :(

I am a recently diagnosed T2and diet controlled at the minute, although that may change shortly. My GP has referred me to dietietics, podiatry and an annual eye check by the mobile screening unit. From reading through the different posts online there seems to be conflicting opinions on free...

:D Fortunately prescriptions are free for everybody in Northern Ireland