Recent Content by Wendyanne

Hi everyone, I have today recived my six monthly HbA1c results and as they are now in the new values i am not sure what in old money my HbA1c actually is.I did the conversion bit on this site and as my number was 38 mmol/mol Hb it has come out as 5.6% but on reading the print off the surgery...

Hi Ambersam and welcome to the forum. If it's any consolulation I too have Polycystic ovaries and kept asking the Dr's at various times why I was putting on so much weight {I'm 54} and was told that while the cysts are active I would struggle to lose weight.I developed Pre Diabetes two years...

Diabetic Retinopathy I had my first Retinopathy eye screening done three weeks ago and thought that everything would be ok as my Diabetic Nurse said that due to my HbA1c blood test being so good {down from 9.3-6.3}and my weight loss of 34lb she didn't want to see me for six months and to enjoy...

Hi BB,Sorry to be slow in getting back to you but I have a trapped nerve in my shoulder and can't sit on the computer for too long as I am in agony.Just waiting to book up for some Physio to hopefully release it :shock: I went last Friday to get the results of my HbA1c blood test and to see...

Hi BB,Well done in getting your levels down and being signed off from the diabetic clinic. :) I am due for the results of my second HbA1c since being diagnosed in January this year and am hoping and praying that with my 29lb weight loss my blood levels have gone down slightly.I have been...

Hi Sal, My older sister joined WW last July and then went to the Dr's two weeks later about a back problem and so the Dr ran some tests and that is when she found out she had Type2 Diabetes,with a fasting glucose of 12 and a HBa1c of 9.2.She was put onto 1x500 Metformin and also went on a...

Hi Newbie, My older{61} sister had just joined Weightwatchers when she was diagnosed last July with type two and after being put on 1x500 Metformin and following a Weightwatchers diet{non low carb} plus using a rebounder/trampette plus a stationary bike lost 50lb in weight in 22 weeks and has...

Hi Paula,I am a newly diagonsed Type 2 as well and am on Metformin 1x500 twice daily.I had really bad stomache problems and Vomiting for the first week and let the DN know about the problem and she said to persevere for another five days which I did and since then have been fine apart from...

Rosemary Conley do these scales but am not too sure whether they are any good or not.I was going to order a set but when I was reading the blurb,at one point it said that it gave the values of 1,000 food items and then somewhere else it said it gave the values of only 500 foods so I was a bit...

I've just started taking Metformin since last Friday.One 500mg twice a day,before breakfast and then one before my evening meal.I started having the sick feeling on Saturday afternoon which I can put up with,but then on Sunday afternoon started having servere stomache pains then really bad...

Hi everyone, My name is Wendyanne and was diagnosed with Diabetes{Type2?} January 16th 2010. I have family members who already have the condition,a brother who is on Insulin and a sister who is on Metformin and diet and through a combination of both has sucessfully lost 49lb in weight :) I...