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Of course we do and this is a contribution from research that might help some people to think about this particular medication.

This link might be of interest to those considering the benefits of treatment with Metformin...

A rainbow Australia looks great. Let’s hope it stays that way! I have always viewed Australia as a welcoming place. It needs to be that for all its people.

you could titrate the statin that is the active constituent in red yeast rice extract. Just because a drug is in its natural state does not mean that it will have no side effects. That is a mistaken belief that people have that natural things cannot hurt you. It is not true. There have been some...

Sorry for the loss of your Father. I was diagnosed with diabetes 20 years ago and on a statin, high BP meds and Metformin from that time. I was also diagnosed with PD about 9 years ago. Both my Father and one of his Sisters also had PD (but neither took statins). There may be a familial link for...

This might help in understanding the role of LDL in plaque formation: http://circres.ahajournals.org/content/114/12/1852 There are lots of things that the body makes that are essential for life and that the body does not always get the quantities right. Sometimes we need to correct the...

We also know that the plaques that can mount up and block arteries result from cholesterol. The body does not always get the levels of things it needs to produce right! Sometimes the body will produce too much of something and sometimes too little.

What is the evidence that statins caused your diabetes?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-not-dementia-its-your-heart-medication/ An interesting article. Looking at this forum, the statin naysayers would appear to be right in terms of the number of posts from people who have alleged side effects. Of course, we are far less likely to...

You rightly mention the possible side effects of statins but they are only that - possible side effects. Try not to get too sensationalist. The risk of a person with type two diabetes getting diabetes ??? Again, they do not always reduce HDL to unhealthy levels.

Why not?

Why should they be avoided?

Thanks for your comment. We have a number of LGBT people on the Forum and its so good when people feel able to be open about that here. A good sense of community, as is given to other groups within the overall community of people living with Diabetes, can help us.

Not everyone has eaten mountains of sugar to compensate for low fat. Some people never got around to the low fat! In the quote from Kundera, don’t forget that her Mother was not just eating low fat spread but putting it on bread! We know little of the rest of her Mother’s diet or, indeed of...

Do we know why it has been refused?

If your LFTs are raised you will be sent for a scan. I was having a kidney ultrasound and they did my liver and prostate at the same time. I had a degree of fatty liver but normal LFTs.

Helpful for our Korean members.

Not necessarily. You can have a degree of fatty liver without it affecting the function of the liver to a degree that your LFTs would be abnormal.

You can have a fatty liver without abnormal LFTs.

A low fat diet does not automatically mean that it is high carb - especially if you are trying to lose weight