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Re: DIAGNOSED LAST WEEK SEEN GP SHE SAID DONT MONITOR WITH M Hi Sandysan!! I am sorry that you are feeling so confused, but unfortunately that is nearly always the way most of us feel after diagnosis, and the response from G.P. etc. I was diagnosed at the end of May - and it came as a total...

whitbyjet - just on a lighter note (!) - I made your chocolate truffles this morning - just had one - and they are divine!!! Many thanks for the recipe - just the job when the occasional chocolate longing comes along and I can't satisfy it!! Until now, that is!! So thank you again! Very much...

Whitbyjet - thanks for the recipe! Am very tempted to give them a try!! Can I ask if you can use vanilla essence instead of vanilla powder?? Many thanks - Julie

Emma1990 - with specific regard to T1 diabetics, please check this press release out. http://www.diabetologists-abcd.org.uk/T ... elease.pdf Mentioned in the contacts for the press release is Dr Jonathan Valabhji, who is working with NHS England to provide clinical leadership and expert...

Having heard that Sir David Nicholson, CEO of the NHS was recently diagnosed as a T2 diabetic, and that he chose not to take the medication route, but to use diet control, and furthermore that he was given a meter and strips, and that he tests himself 4 times a day and keeps a chart to monitor...

Well done nomisthman!! Your results are excellent and clearly 'proved' to your GP that you are motivated and using the test strips responsibly!! Although where the idea comes from that the 'majority' of type 2 diabetics are not motivated never ceases to surprise me - there seems to be a wide...

Emma1990 - you really need to complain vociferously about the restriction of test strips as you are a Ti diabetic and there is a requirement for you to test before you drive etc. Has your G.P. got a Practice Manager? You need to point out the risk factor of your not being given the appropriate...

To be able to test myself has indeed become a fundamental part in managing my diabetes and as a person who operates from logic I fail to understand the rationale behind the policy of test strips being unnecessary for Type 2 diabetics! Of course, I totally understand that they are/should be...

Keep the pressure up Diadeb!! I did - and despite being initially told that I couldn't have them, the DN actually told me today that she is prepared to give me strips! Perseverance and evidence of motivation and commitment won through!

The other thing that occurred to me was that not only did it portray all type 2 diabetics as lazy, fat and a drain on the NHS, but why didn't they pick a more representative sample of type 2's? In other words - why was it all women???!!!!! I was really quite optimistic when saw that there was...

Unfortunately it was indeed somewhat of a missed opportunity - and will leave viewers with the impression that all type 2 diabetes is the fault of the individual, who is overweight, lazy, addicted to food, and a great drain on the NHS. :(

Well done you!!! Success stories such as yours give so much inspiration to others!!!

Just linked through to the video Yorksman - made me laugh out loud! The alternative Newcastle Diet!!!!!

Yorksman - sounds a frighteningly similar experience!!! And guess what they produced for mid morning coffee - a big plate of pastries filled with some sort of sweet mincemeat!!! And they handed them round and people, of course took them!!! I - needless to say - declined!!! What hope, eh!!!!

Thanks for that Lee!! Maybe I should continue with the course - not least to keep the spirits up of the other attendees to offset the negative messages that they are getting!! And to give them some positive reinforcement from messages like yours!! But yet - keeping my gob shut is going to be...

Yorksman - well I have just got in from the first week of the XPert programme course which I was put on. I am not sure yet whether I will be going back. I found it so sad that the other people there were so lost and confused with lack of information since their diagnosis, and although I have...

Incidentally Patti, the first e-mail address I found for David Nicholson came back with: I will be out of the office starting 28/03/2013 and will not return until 31/07/2017 and then said that the e-mail address was no longer active, but gave the alternative which I have quoted and which I...

Yorksman - it is interesting that you linked to Professor Taylor, because that was one of the first pieces of information I found on the internet following the diagnoses. I actually found the Newcastle Diet and followed this for nearly 5 weeks on the shakes/soups/salads - which got the weight...

Therein lies the problem! My GP surgery will not prescribe strips!! Initially I was told an outright 'No' when I asked the G.P. for a meter, the reason being given was that the strips were too expensive! So it appears that whilst there is no National directive given against prescribing...

Yorksman - I guess that the bottom line for me is that although it is such a prevalent condition, on the increase throughout the world, that there is so little being done about it, and the advice/guidance given to people who become Type 2 diabetic seem to fall into this maelstrom of confusion...