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My advice to check that your background insulin is working correctly is to either have a carb free meal, ie check your BG before meal and correct if necessary (1u should bring your BG down by 2 to 3 points), have a carb free meal and if your BG is still on track at your next meal then your...

Just giving you all my personal experience of using Avastin, I find this treatment to be fantstic for me, as stated before I was against laser surgery and was lucky enough to have a great opthomologist who had his finger on the pulse and knew about Avastin. I have 7 injections since 2008 and no...

Thanks Catherine for your reply and also the link...that proved really informative. Really appreciated :D

Thanks for all the advice and help guys, it's really appreciated. I've managed to get hold of my specialist diabetic nurses tele no and have rung them, they will call me back within 3 days! I'm also changing my GP, not that I'm expecting huge improvements but once you lose faith in them I can't...

Arrrgh, I've just been to my GP to discuss some specific questions about my diabetes and have walked out of the surgery feeling really frustrated and angry. I don't know quite how I'm being looked after by my GP, I used to see my consultant with my GP under care share scheme but that stopped...

Hi to everyone, I have had diabetes for nearly 39 years and am now aged 42. Not been in good control for all of my life but over the last few years have finaly managed to get a hold on everything. My complication is the dreaded proliferative retinopathy, I have avoided laser surgery so far (due...

Hi there, I have proliferative retinopathy in both of my eyes and have had this for the past three years. I have not had laser surgery as although being diabetic for 39 yeards I'm only 42 now. My opothomologist and I are using Avastin, which is injected into my eye, on a yearly basis. So far...