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Thanks Daibell, I had my consultation with the pharmacist today, the new meds consult that you get. Was an eye opener, to be honest he said my bloods were too low, for someone who has a body used to dealing with 17-19 average daily levels, to go as low as 5mmol that this essentially is not...

Felt absolutely awful today, have been sat at my desk in work all day having frequent palpitations. Felt out of breath even not doing anything. When I was diagnosed about 3 weeks ago, my fasting blood glucose was 17.9 and have fluctuated between 13/14 and 19 each day. Anyway I have adopted a...

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Hi, I don't know if the current issues I am having are side effects of the new medication and wondered if anyone else had experienced this? Basically as soon as the medication has begun to lower my blood sugar I am freezing cold. I was sitting in bed with three layers on a blanket around me and...

Hi 95FEB, Sorry to hear about your hair. I have had a similar issue. For the past 6 or 7 months my long thick hair has been falling out so much it is now so thin it really upsets me. I have recently been diagnosed with Diabetes and my GP said that when your body is dealing with the massive...

Hi everyone and thanks for the advice and support. I must admit from what I have read on here, having Lada even mentioned by my GP seems like a good thing, in the way that they are recognising it. Well I did my tests, many of them and took the results to the GP on Friday. He took one look at...

Hi, I wondered if anyone might be able to help. With a fasting reading of 17.9, an inability to stomach Metformin and a visit to a special Diabetes GP, he seems to think I have Lada Diabetes. I have been on 80mg of Gliclazide twice a day since Monday and have had readings of between 12.5-14.5...

Hi Furrycub, sorry about the diagnosis, I was diagnosed just over a week ago and this place is great for asking anything. I was diagnosed a day before going on holiday so I know how you are feeling. Hope you have a good holiday.

Thanks again for the information, the idea that it is a scale really makes sense but to be honest I am quite concerned about my stomach. Over the last 12 months I have suffered from increasing amounts of terrible heartburn. Normally resulting in awful vomiting which has damaged my teeth and...

Hi, thanks for the advice. I am actually overweight as are most of the women in our family we are all quite round really, so Type II was not exactly unexpected, also it is in the family. But, the thirst is severe and I have lost weight in strange places and lots of it very quickly. As I am...

Hi Amy, I am new here, and have just read your post. Sorry you are feeling the way you are, and I hope things get better for you. Growing babies are amazing and will cope with whatever your body is going through. I am sure everything will be fine. Take care.

Hi all, just trying to make sense of a few things this evening. After being diagnosed with Type II Diabetes just over a week ago, it now seems that I might have something called Lada? I initially saw my own GP but have now been seen by a specialist Diabetic GP within our practice and he feels...

Felt very unwell last night, ended up back at the GPs today, have now been given something called Gliclazide and a blood testing kit, GP thinks I might have something called Lada? Anyway he is concerned that my blood sugar is still so high so at least I don't have to take the Metformin and going...

I did wonder about the carbs, most people do use carbs as a bulk out option of their food, such as mash or chips or jacket spuds etc, or pasta or rice, so to cut them out can be unusual but easy to get used to. I haven't had a proper consultation since being diagnosed, still waiting for that...

Thanks Grace, it really disagrees with me, so hoping to speak to the pharmacist tomorrow they have promised to phone me as part of the new medicines program and I will ask if there is a slow release option. I did take it either with or after food but I lost my apetite and could not drink...

Hi all, back from my weeks holiday. Diagnosis was pretty much what I had expected, Diabetes Type II. They have put me on Metformin but it really disagrees with me so I stopped taking it in order to enjoy my holiday. An hour after taking the tablet, my temperature went really high and my face...

Hi all, Sallybear here. I have long suspected I have type 2 Diabetes, and finally managed to get the guts to see my GP. I had a blood test yesterday and was told it would take 1-2 weeks for the test results. They took 5 different bottles of blood to test for all sorts, it was a fasting test, and...