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Hello Pinkorchid, Thanks for your message, I guess the frustration comes from being told to return with a week if the numbers don't go down, which suggests to me their is an email that they will, only to be told a week later it takes a long time. Mixed messages send to be the order of the day...

Thanks Jon, I appreciate I may be impatient, but it's really frustrating because nobody will give me then the roughest indication of what to expect. If I knew where it ought be in the region of, say 2 weeks or 2 months, then I could work at that. As it stands I know not what to expect and...

I went back to the clinic yesterday, apparently it is a long slow process to get the blood sugar down from 240 mg/dl and it is unreasonable of me to expect it to be under control within 2 weeks of starting the medication. Apparently, in 5 weeks time, when the diabetes doctor returns, he might...

Hello Daibell, Thanks for your message, I shall go back to the clinic today and see if I can get the doctor to tell me how long it should take to get the numbers under control and ask how he came to the conclusion that it could only be type 2. Here in Santorini they function at a different...

Hello poohtiggy, Other than the bread and cornflakes, I eat nothing other than the veg, meat etc. I walk 2 miles each day, usually immediately after lunch. Then I do the blood test 2 hours after lunch and find that the blood sugar is up from the morning test. Ten days may be short, which...

Hello poohtiggy, Thanks for your reply. At the moment, I eat only 2 slices of brown bread per day, a small bowl of cornflakes in the morning and then only vegetables, lean meat, fish and legumes. I eat no white bread, no pasta, no fruit, no cake, nothing sweetened, no rice nor anything else...

Mrs ought have read Mep, sorry.

Hello Mrs, Thanks for your reply. Diet wise at this moment I'm eating only mean meat, fish and vegetables or legumes and no more than 2 slices of brown bread per day. The test results are in Greek so I shall have to ask for an interpretation of them, there are about 15 lines of results so...

Hello, I was diagnosed on December 14th after I had been experiencing excessive thirst and unintended weight loss where most of my muscles seemed to have disappeared. The initial blood test came back with about 350 mg/dl to which the doctor responded by prescribing Clovix, Metformin, Diamicron...