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Hi, I appreciate your honesty about it but I am willing to try it, it is all new to me and I want to remain positive about it for that reason. If it helps in SOME way, then all to the good.

Ok thanks very much, wow this is all a bit mind blowing for me after 40 years of finger pricks!

That's very kind i do have one question at the moment...do you have one of these permanently or is it just to identify a pattern in sugar levels? Just that it says sensors are for 14 days?

Thank you very much for the heads up

Great idea, thank you

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My diabetes nurse has just told me that if I complete a questionnaire and do an online course for this then I can have it subject o all being ok their end. She is going to email me this. In the meantime Where can I find out about this, all I know is that you wear a sensor and you scan for your...

Thank you, these articles are very interesting and helpful. I didn't know Metformin could help the heart so perhaps I was prescribed it as both my parents died of heart failure...I don't know. I am overweight and take statins so i am thinking i should go back to 2 tablets!

I have been Type 1 for 40 years and have been on metformin for for about 25 years. Why would that be? Why would I be put on it when I was 30 as well as insulin? I am prescribed 1g of Glucophage a day, 2 tabs of 500 in evening. For the past month I have been taking only one because Iwas...

Hi, that's really helpful thank you :) I have been getting nasty cramps and having to be quick to the loo. Yes the only way I will know if it's the metformin is to stop it and obviously if the stomach thing carries on I will have a good idea that it's something else! And to see if it is...

Hi, thanks for replying and for explaining that. I have tolerated metformin for all these years so I am a bit confused if it is the metformin causing the stomach issue. But yes it is a good idea to reduce the dose and see what happens :angelic:

I have been Type 1 for 40 years and have also taken metformin for about half that time, two slow release 1g tablets after evening meal. Recently I have been having problems with an upset stomach and diarrhea. Could this be the metformin and if so how when I have been taking it for ages? Also...

Hi, thank you for this info, I will have a look.

I have been waiting for my prescription of Lantu sfor a week now and been told its due to manufacture delay and there is no date for it to be in? Anyone else have thus?

I spoke to Specsavers again and they told me the rules were changing "all the time", whatever that means? She said if I thought my vision has changed and that was found to be right, I would have a free test. I said well yes it has worsened but how do I know if that is down to my glaucoma etc...