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Stress will send whatever condition you have up. So as said above try not to stress yourself. I have a blood condition called polycyctheamia Vera in which the red blood cells are enlarged and a high red blood reading which has almost the same symptons as diabetics. The one difference is the...

Reason more metformin is dished out is that they would rather increase the cost of metformin then the cost of type testing. The PCT's say that testing strips cost to much and so they would rather increase your metformin then encourage you to eat properly and help keep your diabetics under...

I take the slow release metformin 2x500mg 1 in the morning after breakfast and 1 after evening meal. I try to aid them by also keeping a control on my diet by low carbing. It has also helped my weight and have lost 21/2 stone so far. I did when I first took metformin have headaches not bad...

I've just checked on Bayer's site for the price of the testing strips and they are £23 odd so even they are charging double the retail price listed above!!!! My 3month visit to the DN is now almost a 5month visit what should have been 10 Aug is now 23 September so I have made an appointment to...

To help with gout try eating Cherry's or you can even get Cherry concentrate in capsules its suppose to be very good as it helps disolve the uric acid that causes gout. You need to find a diet that suits your diabetes and most find that a low carb is the way to go. But its how your body...

Re: Inppropriate advice re technical question Akabob, all the advice you have been given above is excellent advice. I was newly diagnosed in March this year and it is hard to get to grips with being a diabetic and reading the advice given here has helped me a lot. The only way to find out...

Your blood testing hbc1 (whatever) is done through your vein and will need a bit of pressure to stop the blood flow for a short time which is why a plaster is put on. As advised above try lowering the force of the needle to prick your finger. A little pressure from a clean tissue should stop...

Hi everyone. There is a thing called parellel importation this is where people buy drugs etc that are cheaper in other countries and they import them into the UK then sell them. This happens a lot as I have just retired from working in a large pharmaceutical company. The only protection these...

Is there anything we as a collective set of people can do to try and get the price of these tabs down? What about contacting the companies and asking why they are so expensive. Type 2s are being blamed theirselves for their condition through eating badly but it is not always the case. You...

Hi, when you first take metformin and it begins to control your blood sugar and you yourself are helping to correct things by what you eat your body is all of a sudden being changed and you will in the first month (possibly longer) feel ill and have these shaky etc feelings I know I did and did...

Hi, It is true that your liver will dump sugar to provide the energy that you would have got from the food you eat before doing your execise. Manufactures sometimes change their recipes and I recall seeing a message on here about genola that they had been eating for years but all of a sudden...

Hi, your blood pressure isn't that low but you do have a period in which after having high blood pressure that your body needs time to adjust. Part of this maybe getting headaches. the lower part of your BP should be between 60 to 80 and the higher part should be between 100 to 130 so a...

hi everyone - I have taken the handshake and finish on 29th July which time is dragging and its very difficult to want to goo to work to finish. Have had a lot of stress over this and was done out of my month in hand - HR said I was paid my month in hand the following month i.e. 2 months money...

Hi, I had retinal bleeds and was put on blood pressure tablets. Getting anxious will send your blood pressure up so try to relax and let the tablets work. If you can afford it buy your self a blood pressure guage and keep a record of what it is during the day. I did this and it will help to...

Hi, you don't say if you execise at all or what you are doing during the day as if your only eating that and you are working, execising, your body is using energy and in not supplying enough food to give your body energy your liver will dump sugar into you to help give you energy which will...

Re: Slow release Metformin - take AM or PM? Hi, most people from what I have read on this forum take metformin in the morning and at night, or if taking 3 times a day after lunch. I take 1x500mg in morning after breakfast then 1x500mg after evening meal. Are you taking them after your...

I agree washing your hands before testing is very important if you don't it does affect your reading. To begin with its best to test whatever you eat as you wont know what sends your BS up. I hope you get all your testing equipment on prescription as I don't its another lottery as to whether...

I read on here that exercise makes your liver dump gloucose into your system as it sees that you need energy. Your 20 min walk with the dog may have been what led to your liver dumping sugar into you and made your BS go up. See what your BS is after and before the dog walk and it may be that...

Thankyou for your responses. I have been given a Compromise Agreement by my company and am speaking with a solicitor on Tuesday 6th July pm (which company are paying for). I also went to Retinal screening the other week and have been recalled to see the specialist on Tuesday 6th July am. Need...

I too would like to give up smoking. In my 20s I did give up for 7 years but all that time I would want a ciggy. I went back to smoking and then in 2002 (in my fifties) was told i had that lung disease that you can't breath with had an x-ray that was clear was sent to a blood consultant and...