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Thank you, I'm going to act on it immediately.

Hello everyone, I'm almost freaking out here and I'm desperate for some help, long story short I got let out hospital just over a week ago and have been prescribed 3different types of antibiotics. Since yesterday the left side of my mouth has become numb resulting in me dribbling when I drink...

Well I've been and had the surgery, I had all the metalwork apart from one screw which was embedded into bone removed, and now I've been home for a week. I'm on 3 different types of antibiotics and being monitored for liver function because of one of them and I've been "made aware" of the danger...

Hi there, sounds almost exactly the same as me, initially don't panic, easy said I know but what happens for me is a simple stent, a tiny little piece of tube almost, put in the stricture to open it up and stop it closing causing you the difficulties. Getting the stent put in, I'll be honest...

Thanks for that post, I was getting, err, concerned.

Thanks for the heads up, I too have dabbled with "the herb", ahem but don't like the suspicion that surrounds it, as in "it's a drug, you'll be on crack mugging pensioners before you know it" type thing but fortunately I have a friend who ones a vape shop so I'll be quizzing him and seeing what...

Just a wee note to say thank you so very much for that post, my pains probably fade into insignificance compared to yourself but I have been slamming ill effective opioids down my throat for a number of years now and I rattle, shake and fly off the handle at all the wrong people all the time...

Don't know if this is really related but because of a motorbike accident a few years ago I have had an injury to my shin that hasn't healed and got infected, the local hospital said, at the time of the accident, that amputation was the only way forward, my better half got upset about this and...

Thanks for that, yeah, best try to get on an even keel before I get knocked down again, hehe, get as fit as I can for the best recovery. I'm going to go for waddles again as I have neglected exercise of late and get more active, sitting around dwelling on what ifs and stuff don't feed no...

Yeah the nurse took another couple of swabs and the previous swabs have shown the infection to be "what was expected" and didn't worry the Drs too much but the several courses of antibiotics didn't shift it so I suppose, logically, removal of the source of infection makes perfect sense, it's...

Sorry I included a name, naive mistake, and thanks for removing it. I'm waiting on a letter with an appointment, the reality is, I waited months to see the surgeon, travelled over a hundred miles and saw him for ten minutes. He was rushed off his feet, appeared angry that I hadn't been referred...

Yeah I obviously underestimated the danger of infection and yeah I'll be using every aid I can to try and regain my mobility, being housebound sends me around the twist, limping or not, lol. Thanks for the advice tho, maybe summat to divert my attention type thing, while I research gadgets and...

Saw the surgeon, got another x-ray and apparently there is signs of infection on the metalwork so he's going to remove it...between my frailty and diabetes I'm not feeling at all confident for the future of my leg and for the first time in years I'm feeling fear, removing the pins and plates...

Another update for meself, received an appointment with the top class surgeon, for the 28th of February because of this apparent skin infection which is still dripping pus down my shin...a top class surgeon for a skin infection seems very odd to ickle naive me. Edited to remove the surgeon's name

I'm the same, bored with my food, cos I don't have a sense of smell so I have a very weak sense of taste and I find sometimes through the day I'll have a plate of stuff in front of me so I fork mouthfulls in, chew then swallow and await the oncoming unpleasant feelings I usually get, for me...

Thanks, it's because of good people like yourself making sense of the mixed messages newcomers like myself get from the esteemed medical staff.

Thanks, yeah the 50 was my hba1c and, of late, my bg's are usually around 5 or 6. I need to adjust my diet tho, your right, and thanks again.

Thanks for that, confusion often reigns over my parade so don't worry about it, I'm going by the graph that appears on my "my diabetes my way" web site app and 50 is well in the green, unlike my bank account hehe, and my local nurse was aiming to hopefully work towards a result of 52, I don't...

All I've really done is walk around a bitty after meals and 40mg of Gliclazide twice a day, I sound a wee smigde unshelved but now I'm totally lost, I still have rubber legs after 50m or so and get fuzzy fingers, cold sweats and palpitations when I eat but surely the results don't lie, so, if...

Not been on for a wee bit, can't afford the internet anymore, so I may not respond quickly, anyway I got my results back from my most recent hba1c test thingy and it was 50, to say I'm astounded is putting it very mildly, fantastic results considering how little I have actually done, all that it...