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Yes, the whole power imbalance situation in the exam room. I can’t tell you how much that irks me. I think the best answer is to make sure you’re on the same wavelength as your doctor and let everyone else know what that wavelength is. Myself, I’ve put a lot of effort into picking my doctors and...

Let me put it this way. Food packaging is heavy, heavy marketing. Saying low sugar or no sugar, however you do it, is going to encourage a certain kind of customer to pick your product off the shelf. On the practical side, knowing the sugar content is not going to help a non-diabetic much. Food...

That may be a rant but it’s an interesting one. You’re telling me that the NHS doesn’t promote at least a reduced-carb diet for Type 2s like you? That’s almost as shocking as telling a Type 2 not to test. I really don’t know how to make head or tail of it. True, I know less about living with...

Huge progress in getting diabetics on insulin, no doubt. And even bigger progress happened when insulin was first discovered and produced after thousands of years of people dying. But what’s interesting is that 50 years ago, many researchers thought a cure in 20-30 years could well happen...

If we knew the answer to that we would probably have a cure by now. All the drugs and technology are a great thing, but we are still very much in the dark on many big questions.

Can anyone explain what the advantage might be to any of us in separating out amount of sugar from total carbohydrates in labeling? I’m used to seeing packaging touting low sugar or no sugar but not the potentially confusing and misleading way of listing nutritional information shown in the OP...

If your GP had blood glucose results going back more than a year, that might be helpful. And as I wind up reminding every new doctor I see, the answer doesn’t always have to be the diabetes to the exclusion of everything else.

I’m not going to read all 200+ pages so I’ll just ask: Has anyone questioned why the OP, an administrator working for an organization that sells things on a linked site, made a point of asking all the marketing type questions listed on page one? If so, what was the answer — or did they not get one?

This whole thread (at least the part I’ve read) would seem to stick a pin in the balloon full of notions that socialized medicine gets the money motive mostly out of practicing medicine. As far as I can tell, advising a patient with a blood sugar problem, usually diabetes, never to test is at...

Well, you would all make a horrible advertisement for diabetes care by the NHS. Granted, the horror stories get talked about the most but the amount of self-satisfied obtuseness shown by some of these doctors is almost beyond belief. In the end, it always comes down to “Who’s in charge of my...

I guess that’s a given. But who exactly decided that we all have to keep hearing about it every day? Actually, nobody in particular, it just happened. Which again proves your point.

IIRC, Dr. Strangelove never offered an opinion on fluoride. He was too busy going on about the doomsday bomb. It was Gen. Jack Ripper, the guy who started World War III, who was obsessed with fluoridation. This was 1964 and fluoridation was still a big debate with some people in the U.S. Colonel...

And it’s not just the studies that are a problem. This also happens to be the way a lot of people think about a lot of things. That is, if A is related to B, then presto, A probably caused B. Or vice versa. This is the part where I get to blame the education system again.

I would keep a close eye on my kidney numbers. Less albumin and micro-albumin in the urine is better in diabetics. Creatinine should also be followed.

I agree that there may be other causes in addition to the hypos. The behavior described reminds me of a number of well-reported episodes caused by Ambien. Various drugs and conditions can combine with hypoglycemia to cause very extreme behavior. Best advice here is to see your GP ASAP.

The basic Listerine sold in the U.S. and probably sold elsewhere does not contain fluoride. But I’m sure there would be a version that does. All these brands have more expensive versions of the base product that they charge more for. Fluoride has been controversial since forever but I’ve never...

I’ll just say first that I am not an attorney representing Johnson & Johnson. I will also say that the mouthwash study linked above is undoubtably utter hogwash. The main antibacterial agent in common mouthwashes is alcohol and where’s the study linking rinsing with alcohol to diabetes...

Haha, almost a pure carnivore and not unproud to be one, I take it. Something to be said for that, IMHO.

Okay, I have to ask. doc marten boots? They wouldn’t have to do with the “Doc Martin” tv show, would they? That would be ironic if Doc Martin had anything to do with your foot problem. He’s the most sensible doctor I know, real or otherwise. He would never put his name on boots that were bad for...

All of you here more than deserve two thumbs up and a “very well done.” Most people have no idea the amount of effort and dedication required of those like us just to stay alive, much less stay relatively healthy. But those in healthcare should know well enough what you’ve accomplished — and...