Recent Content by witan

An interesting link - although a little bit technical - that supports the cause of re-defining the types of Diabetes... http://www.diapedia.org/downloads/category_error.pdf Edwin Gale refers to the two extremes of Type 2 Diabetes as Obese Insulin-resistant (OIR) and Lean Insulin Deficient (LID)...

I agree entirely with the OP. I thought it quite novel at first when people kept saying you can't be type 2, you're too thin! But now with DUK and the BBC (Five Live's) recent coverage of type 2 diabetes both confusing METABOLIC SYNDROME with Mature on-set Type 2 diabetes - IT IS TIME TO CHANGE...

It's true that showers are one of the worst things for your feet - there is a great tendency to overlook them. Most important is to physically wash them, if you can't balance on one leg sit down in the shower and do it. Then there is the drying, too many people just let them air-dry, then some...

Elaine, I believe Hana is responding to a post elsewhere on the board where someone was confusing fructose with glucose and talking about avoiding fruit which is the main source of fructose. As Hanna points out the body deals with these in different ways so there is no need for a diabetic to...

There is probably too much vested interest in selling expensive drugs that lower BP and create all sorts of other problems that might need even more expensive drugs to put right! When I've finished my first 30 tablets I'm going to try just bathing in Epsom Salts once or twice a week to see if...

I agree Calcium (Ca) levels are very important in cell metabolism but Magnesium (Mg) is as well - serum blood electrolytes have always been focused on Sodium and Potassium (Na and K) levels and Ca and Mg not often measured. Ca trapped in the cells can cause the blood vessels to be a lot stiffer...

My blood pressure has probably always been high and I have been struggling to keep my Doctor/DNS happy that I can do something about it that doesn't require yet another medication regime. I did a quick BP check at the surgery when going for my pre-check up blood tests and got a result of 149/91...

It seems strange to me that someone who (apparently) has just one daughter, who he admits he saw infrequently should be writing about how to bring up children!! In those first few years of life a child's mind is a sponge, absorbing so much it is impossible to stop them falling prey to unhealthy...

We have all learnt the hard way that Bankers and Pharmaceutical companies can't be trusted, yet you believe that all the 'organic' produce you get is genuine. Regardless of the trade bodies that vet the suppliers, how easy, to double their profit, would it be for any shop, small or...

I am so sorry to hear how you have suffered. It's interesting that wheat should come up as an issue as I believe this is in fact a much bigger problem than is common knowledge. Perhaps something has happened to certain types of wheat, either through genetic modification or intense breeding, but...

The problem is that your Doctor has been brain washed by all the media portrayal of T2 as being obese - I'm not sure why they've done this (ignorance! slur on people without their idealised body shape!) or what they might gain from it (shares in weight/diet clubs?). I was 9.5 stone and 5 foot 9...

I'm pleased my thoughts helped, thanks. Stress is responsible for many modern diseases and I remember reading somewhere that it was closely linked to some auto-immune diseases (like type 1) too. It's not short term stress that's the problem - I believe that probably does us good - but it's...

Welcome to the forum. I've no experience of these things being a male type 2! But there is something that links all of this - and I'm not saying it in a male derogatory sense by any stretch of the imagination - Hormones, we all have them even those men who would deny it! It's the hormones that...

Hello and wellcome Rog32 Diabetes can affect many parts of the body, some parts only after having high glucose levels for many years, but the eyes respond remarkably quickly to glucose level changes, but in a slightly perverse way. If you have had slowly increasing glucose levels over a long...

If you didn't see horizon last night try to see it on iPlayer. As a slim Type 2 it was of great interest to me, showing that all type 2s are not the result of obesity or metabolic syndrome; but that it can be due to poor nutrition in the womb! With a significant proportion of underweight babies...