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Help, I have just been diagnosed with osteoporosis and started on alendronic acid a couple of weeks ago. Have unfortunately got a bad sinus infection and started taking penicillin yesterday. I don’t test my blood sugar all that often these days but for some reason I did mine before lunch today...

Waterfall - after all that you've been through an interview will be a doddle. You should be really proud of yourself. What you’ve been through must have been incredibly tough and here you are - out the other side. Well done. As someone said I’d be totally honest and up front about everything...

I discovered I had developed steroid induced T2 diabetes. I had been prescribed a large but reducing dose of prednisone for inflammatory arthritis, I was also taking part in a pre diabetes study. Fortunately I went back for my first annual check up just after I stopped the steroids. Bottom line...

I know just how you feel. I was not told that steroids could cause steroid induced T2 before I developed steroid induced T2 about five or six years ago after I was given a large dose of prednisone for inflammatory arthritis, Fortunately I was also taking part in a pre diabetes study and I had my...

Thought it was called a lancet - but finger prickly thingy is better.

I’ve started using courgetti - I’ve got a spiraliser - but I think you’re u can buy it in Tesco. Once it’s covered in nice home made tomato sauce it’s just like pasta without the carbs - even my husband likes it!

I usually make myself a two egg omelette with either sliced mushroom or blueberries scattered over the top before I turn it. Sometimes I will mash a ripe banana and beat it into the eggs and make a banana pancake. I have that with half a pink grapefruit and a mug of tea. If I don’t have that I...

I got a soup maker recently and I love it. Shove everything in it and 20 minutes later you are tucking in.

Can see why you had it because I cleaned out my Advent Calender for lunch today - I knew it was a very bad choice - but I don't blame Green and Blacks who made it. So I really don’t think it is McDonalds fault if you chose to have one. I drink all my drinks black but I still kind of suspected...

Do I worked out which food spiked my blood sugar by testing before every meal then 1.5-2 hours after the meal. I had to buy my own blood sugar meter though. I made a little spreadsheet and wrote down everything I ate (absolutely no snacking between meals) then I eliminated everything that...

That is really interesting. Mine is sometimes over 6 which is very odd but I don't test until I’ve washed or showered, dressed and done my hair. I was beginning to think it was something to do with my toothpaste. Now I know. This site is SO useful, thank you all

You aren’t by any chance taking steroids for any other condition are you? I was prediabetic probably had been for ages when I think how my diet has changed. Then I saw a rheumatologist, was started on a three month course of steroids - that was a few years ago. Fortunately I was a year into a...

As well as what Mike D recommends you definitely need to book in to see your optician, let him / her look inside your eyes and have your eyes photographed, they will advise you.

I think shingles does tend to follow particular nerve pathways and it also stays on one side of the body. As a teenager I developed shingles and it started like a spot in the middle of my back - along my bra line. It ended up right round that side to the middle of my front. I didn’t know you can...

Know what you mean. A diabetic friend (T1) is the tiniest person I know. I think I’d probably been pre diabetic for a long time before I was given steroids for arthritis and then developed steroid induced T2. What I found hard was that I know several people who are taking steroids, much larger...

That’s exactly what I was told. I was given three months to improve my diet or be put on the diabetes register. I was also given the standard NHS leaflet and advice that advises carbs with every meal. After a week of wondering how I would know if what I was doing was helping I bought Dr David...

Well at least he thought of you and tried bless him. Give him a list of what you can eat for a snack - if you snack that is.

I agree, you've just got to accept it and go with the flow. Hard to tell if it's the steroids or just not feeling well. Think I'd go fir not feeling well because I know I was feeling sore and grumpy before I finally admitted I wasn't feeling good and it wasn't improving and went to the doctor. A...

Thank you for your good wishes and thanks for your reassuring reply. Know what you mean about the need for steroids, I always felt I would never have them ever again after my first experience with them but I've got some sort of infection and it hurts to breathe in then it hurts to breathe out...

Hi, I've just been given a five day course of Prednisolone 30mcg a day along with 500mcg Amoxil 3x a day. Took my steroids at lunch time yesterday and two of the antibiotics and woke up with my blood sugar at 7.2! That's really high for me, normally a bad result would be 6.0 - I've always had a...