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Can I suggest that maybe those of you that are having problems getting test strips on prescription that you try and enlist the aid of your MP to fight your PCT for you? They are a public body and hence should be accountable to someone and maybe your MP might be able to apply the right sort of...

The biggest problem I think with the advice is the same world over as far as I can see eat plenty of starchy carbohydrate at every meal. Its wrong on two counts it perpetuates the old myth that complex carbs are all broken down into glucose slowly thats complete and utter BS, check out the GI...

Some sound advice from Cugila there. My only other comment is if your cholesterol level is good why would you need a tablet that is designed to reduce cholesterol levels as a "preventative" measure, you don't have anything to prevent? I have heard on numerous occasions however that doctors have...

Best to test and find out yourself but I find that oat based products arent too bad for me including porridge try and go for the more traditionally rolled oats though rather than the highly processed packaged sort. As for bread forget wholemeal its as bad as white in my experience. Grannery is...

I wish I could get those figures all the time even 5.1 would be fantastic ;) But to answer your question the liver releases sugar into the blood stream especially if you get too low then the liver will dump a load to avoid or fix a hypo.

I seem to remember some committee deciding the same thing back in the 90s and a few more in between. I predict that in 5 years time some committee will again conclude there is an unfair postcode lottery and promptly forget the report and go back to buisness as normal

I can easily rule out sucrose and fructose as I dont really have much or any of either. Gluten well thats another possibility just wondering about lactose intolerance first and wondering if its possible that it would just start like this as I have always liked milk and dairy products and eat...

and offer some advice ;) Been having abdominal pain for a while now thats getting worse. Think this started before I started byetta but its certainly being getting worse since I started byetta. Doc has done some bloods for full blood count, amylase, liver, kidneys and urine test but so far...

Just want to add my own tests showed there was something with the whole GI thing but best to test yourself as I found significant deviances from what GI would predict. Potatoes as good as sweet potatoes even baked potatoes. whole wheat bread as bad as white only things which really seem to make...

I'd say the main problem with advice like this is that it doesnt give any indication of portion sizes. Also some carbs affect people worse than others. EG I dont seem to tolerate a lot of wheat products well except for pasta and a few types of bread, similarly rice seems to cause large BS...

Re: Anyone use Byetta? Just a quick update. Seven weeks and early drop in blood sugar levels seems to have subsided and am now creeping back up to my original levels, have also lost a minimal amount of weight, still on the 5 microgram dose though at the moment. I seem to have wildly erratic...

I'm sorry I actually don't agree here. There is no immediate danger to the vast majority of diabetics if they control their condition. I know that insulin and the complications of diabetes aren't fun suffering from some of them myself. However the only people that die of diabetes currently are...

You have to be really careful with most foods "healthy" and "low fat" normally equals huge amounts of sugar and carbs in my experience. How most of these supermarkets can get away with calling there **** stuff like "eat well" or "good for you" I dont know. The other day I checked out the stir...

I would have thought there were better options than metformin as its not everyone that loses weight on metformin.

If you are on double med therapy already and at max doses about the only other option bar insulin that I know of is exantide(byetta) or Victoza, one thread about each on the diabetes discussions forum. The byetta thread in particular is huge. Am currently on double meds + Byetta. Byetta is the...

Want to second that and shame on your partner and those people at the group for not being more understanding. Its a big enough responsibility looking after a child but add type 1 diabetes onto that and its enough to make anyone scared. Learning more might help but also as time goes by you will...

Also interesting to me as I have always had problems with sleep not getting enough, getting too much, unable to get to sleep unless completly and utterly exhausted. At one point I had a weird cycle of being awake for nearly 48 hrs then sleeping 12 sometimes slip back into it too.

From what I have been told there are a couple of causes of pain in diabetes. High blood sugar can cause muscle stiffness and pains I believe and ofc if its just this then getting levels lower means the pain should go away. However if its due to neuropathy which is damage to the nerves then its a...

Its one of a number. But there are many other causes too. Unless you have other symptoms I wouldnt worry too much but if this has been ongoing for a while then its always best to discuss with your doctor who can check out other potential causes too.

I have a freedom lite I was given by the nurse at my doctors surgery but have swapped to a compactplus that my sister gave me. I find it to be a lot less messing around and less steps etc although it is a bigger machine depends on what your requirements are I guess if I was on the move and had...