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i cant believe anyone would want to hurt cats ! you would love cats if your house and garden were full of rats!! someone poisoned my cat and my son was distraught for weeks! i think you should think about that before telling people how kill them thirsty :evil: im appalled, im sorry i looked at...

hi everyone! as you may know i look after my mum who is type 2 with insulin and had many many problems with her and the general medical fraternity. anyay about six weeks ago mum was put on byetta and has now moved on to he 10 pen. but what is confusing me is the fact that she is still taking her...

hi catherine and ihs, no the medics did not figure out mum had a salt problem they just dont want to know. it was a few clues, although her blood pressure was ok she did have really bad peeling lips and i know that sounds funny but when she felt better and less wobbly her lips where fine and...

hi everyone, mum went on byetta on thursday night tea time and so far she has had no nausea and her bg levels have come down but not too drastically just enough to keep her positive. also we may have found the cause of her awful wobbles SALT too much salt. when she has nearly no salt she feels...

hi jopar and catherinecherub thanks for relying, jopar as far as i know her blood pressure is ok she takes 3 bloodpressure tablets a day but i never thought about that before, and she does only have it when she stands up or she notices it more when she stands up.she is not constipated or aneanic...

hi everyone, as you all know im helping mum with her diabetes. things are not going well. mums wobbles are getting worse. she can hardly stand now and she is soo dipressed that today she told me she is and has been for some time considering suicide!! i was distraught i dont know what to do...

hi everyone thanks for replying, miko, i think your right in what you say about lowering mums bg level more slowly, she has lowered her bg levels to 5.5 and 6.2s but she doesnt feel well, however when it is 8 or 9 she does feel better.so we have to slow it down a bit.i have also slightly...

hi everyone thanks for replying, ive been with mum all day today and i have cut her cheese intake and given her a bit more food and she feels a lot better today. i agree that mums doc is hopeless and i do think that he thinks you can only have one illness at once. everytime i try to make mum an...

hi everyone, ive got a ongoing problem with mum and her bg levels as you all know, but i cannot work out the fact that she feels ill all the time. since taking over mums diet and insulin mum has had a headache all day and during the night and although she is doing really well where her bg levels...

thanks totsy i will keep a close eye on her. pxx :|

hi everyone its me again! i know im a pain but as you already know i have no medical expert to consult so i have to ask you ( sorry ). anyway i have been helping mum with her bg levels she has gone on low carb and is losing weight and her bg are now almost always below 10. her legs are no...

aaahhh!!! that could be it. thanks totsy p.xx

thanks hana im dumbfounded! lol :D :D

hi im from salford/ manchester p.x

hi everyone, you all prob know mum now from my previous posts, but today somthing surprising happened! she got up as normal and had her usual low carb breakfast then she had her insulin 16 units ( seems to be working well at mo), thenshe carried on her normal day, anyway about 2 hrs after lunch...

hi dennis ans jansei thanks for replying. dennis mum is on 46 units of insulin spread out through the day ( nuvorapid ) and 34 units of lantus at night she also takes 2 metformin, one with breakfast and one with her tea. i dont know why they put her on insulin 2and a half years ago ,all i can...

hi everyone, ihave a problem. my mum who is type 2 with insulin and has been struggling with her bg,s for years. anyway we have got them to a reasonable level although they do seem to go up and dpwn no matter what we do. she has been offered byetta, now mum was told about this drug ages ago and...

hi jopar, mums bg levels do seem to rise in the morning then they dip towards the afternoon and evening.i will think about splitting the lantus. i cant ask her gp or consultant because as you probably know from previous posts they are both hopeless.she is on 30 lantus at the moment and still...

hi thanks for replying hanadr, ive not heard of that but i will ask the doc. ive just bought that book by dr bernstein the diabetes solution, so there may be something in that. thanks for the advice tho. its a mystery isnt it. but as i forgot to say earlier mum has lost a stone in weight also...

hi everyone, i would just like to update you all on my mum. so far she has been doing really well we have got her bg levels down to an average of 11. sometimes they are great at about 6.7 to 6.9. she feels quite well at these levels but they fluctuate sometimes they will go up to 8.00 or 9. and...