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Personally I think rather than offering those talks they should direct people here ‍♂️

Fantastic and really made me laugh. I’m putting myself into detention because I’ve just had a treat. 2 small rolls filled with lashings of butter, mustard & Hogs pudding

I’m so pleased that this thread has brought forward some fantastic stories and some really great ideas/advice. It’s great to share stories that have moved away from the doom and gloom of our health issue. We must also remember that a vast number of the population doesn’t even know they have...

Good for you and well done. I know this isn’t about diabetes but after my accident I was in so much pain which didn’t ease. They decided I had very bad bruising and needed to swim & as I played squash I should play some gentle games. I did as they said & honestly cried with pain but never gave...

Fantastic that made me chuckle

That is such a powerful reply and I’m sure many will learn from it. For me it’s like looking back years when we were fed this garbage about carbs and well done you for dealing with how you did. I’m fairly lucky as I don’t like pasta, rice, etc but could eat plenty of bread if I believed I could...

Thank you for sharing and releasing that

My understanding is that sweet potatoes are okay for us with T2

Thank you so much for your lovely comments. I’m happy to state that some years ago I had a breakdown due to circumstances out of my control and this is another issue I have to live with. In my opinion once you have experienced a breakdown or suffer in any way with mental health you understand...

Lovely informative reply, thank you

Ha ha bless you. I can remember a lot and as stated by one of the other replies we had Rose Hip syrup but I also remember big spoons of malt. Time moves on & I’m certainly in the “in my days” era. I’m sure in years to come the advice we take now will be considered incorrect. I hope I haven’t...

Thank you for a lovely reply. Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the word blame but it was only after reading another post where there seemed to be someone in distress and I was reading that they blamed themselves. I know a lady who is quite happy to keep eating carb loaded foods, lots of sweet stuff...

And that was the intention of my original post. Your health issue and you deal with it the best way you can. I love this forum and have learnt so very much but only by looking at different ideas and taking what is of use to me. As an amateur genealogist and someone very keen on history I look...

Not sure saying “we have an incurable disease” helps to be fair because these types of phrases are what can freak some people out. There are many that gladly report they have reversed it or are trying to and that’s because there’s always hope. For some saying that and reading about the incurable...

100% agree. I’m not attempting to apportion blame, what I’m hopefully raising is where people say “it’s your fault, you’re lazy, you eat far too much etc” and it’s as if they are to blame well in a lot of cases they certainly aren’t. I knew an elderly gentleman that grew all his own fruit and...

When I was first told that I had diabetes (2006) it really didn’t mean much to me. Although I taught how to deal with it when teaching first aid I really had no idea about THE CONDITION. I’ve capitalised that because I really don’t like to see terms such as “dreadful disease” because that...

I’m sounding off here because frankly I’m fed up with the whole diabetes, NHS, internet information etc. I’m 67 & just read that the average age of passing for type 2 is 70. I get really bad advice from NHS and have for nearly everything I’ve ever been to them with. Last week out of the blue I...

Well things are now very confusing. As I posted I was told I have “background retinopathy” but no treatment is necessary. I’ve just had my annual optician check, Vision Express, and I was offered the normal free checks or I could pay and have a scan via their new machine that they had received...

Thank you

I’ll certainly give that a go thank you very much