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So having suffered depression on and off for most of my life, including a couple of breakdowns, I currently feel that I am in the worst possible place. I've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetic for 18 months, and insulin dependent for 7 months. I take Humulin I twice a day, Trulicity once a...

Hi All Struggling to get my blood sugars down below 22mmol/L at the moment, and don't know what to do. So I was diagnosed last summer and been doing well. My HbA1c levels dropped from an initial 90 down to 22 in September, then last week (3rd test) they went up to 44. I've been feeling rough...

Thank you Jay-Marc

Thanks both for the response :-) I have started eating better (as Art Of Flowers describes), and do have a blood Glucose meter. Before food I generally get a 9-10, 14-17 after. Problem I have is that with the cheaper reading glasses (I did buy a pair from Asda) is that whilst the text is...

Hi all Been diagnosed a few weeks now, and things are slowly coming under control. My main issue now is my vision, still really poor with generally blurred vision. Before being diagnosed I generally wear glasses all the time for an astigmatism & being short sighted. Now, distance wise I can see...

Well that explains my other post - I was getting 10 - 12 mmol/l higher on the Jazz than my other meter. Time to post a scathing review on Amazon and look for something else :)

Yes on both, and they are both within the range on the test strips pack. I even called the support number on the WaveSense monitor and after doing some tests they determined that their monitor was working fine and the Exactive monitor was not working properly, despite the Exactive results being...

Hi All Newbie, just been diagnosed a week :-) Apologies if this has been asked before. So when I was diagnosed last week we immediately bought an Exactive Easy monitor. Nice and easy to use, and the results that I got tied in with the readings I was getting in hospital. Happy days. So being a...