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Speak to your diabetic care team is the best thing to do and see what they say is best to do as each person is different. What works for one person isn't going to work for another. This is probably something you don't want saying but it's for the best but you probably wanted some real advice...

Just checked now and it's at 27

We don't have a walk in clinic where i live and i feel the hospital is a waste of time. They had me there for 28 hours in a chair without food, gave me 2 bags of fluids and sent me home even with high levels

I'll be fine with Insulin as i already have to inject [emoji846]

My GP never called me back to will have to try again tomorrow

I'm waiting for my GP to call me back but i'm not hopeful about it happening today

No i've never seen a consultant, when i was diagnosed in the hospital, i never saw anyone from the diabetic team as they sent me home at 2am on a Friday night/morning and i only saw the nurse at my GP's on the Monday after i called that morning saying i've been told i need to see the diabetic...

I personally feel at time GP's don't care about people with diabetes but that might just be my experience

If not then i will have to wait until the 21st as that is the soonest they can see me

My doctor said the same to me and i told them that my levels are high so i'm going to tract it and they give me test strips on prescription. When i was newly diagnosed they asked me to do it before every meal for about a month - if you want to self test then you should

I think i'm gonna have to ring my GP again and see if i can get in asap because i'm feeling worse than i ever have

The earliest i can get in to see the diabetic doctor at my GP is on the 21st

Since being diagnosed i have lost 6 stone and my levels are going higher when i was told it should help my levels

I was given an information pack before i started taking it back in late October 2016, since i've been on it my levels continue to rise so it isn't working for me. I've been on other medication before it

I'm 24 now, i've been admitted to the hospital over night for this before and they only gave me fluids and sent me back to my GP

I'm on an injection called Victoza

I've never have a GAD test or Glucose tolerance test. Mine was just diagnosed from blood test and ketones testing

Yes when i did my finger prick it gave me a reading of 26

I'm not feeling so great at the moment but my GP doesn't care about it