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Must be really really much more tricky to manage if wheelchair bound. My partner is disabled but mobile due mostly to being bloody minded and smack patches Ok, I am beginning to look like an “excusenik” here. I loathe housework, always have, always will. I have a little garden, loathe gardening...

I love animals but...we go on holidays twice a year. my area is very culturally mixed and most of the mixture despises pets, especially dogs. I have one set of neighbours I could rely upon but they will move out in a year to country leaving me with no one I could possibly trust with a treasured...

The GlucoZen is a permanent gift I think. I ordered more strips and lancets last week. I was trying to find out what widget the nhs uses but no idea as yet. Realistically, if you use the same widget each time then that has consistency given widget has ok function! I am going to try asking GP to...

Interesting, this time the reply box was waiting for me. No, I have been going to main site on my iPad, the app refuses me in and I don’t care! Ok, firstly I am not anxious, I am a fatalist but I tend to be very enquiringly and I like to know “why”. So very happy to experiment on self. It keeps...

I am really struggling with this site, it worked the other day, today it’s just trying to make me tag my comments onto the replies. Apologies all. Thank you for replies. And patience... Ok. Am a retired nurse but my speciality was not endocrine. I only have had one blood screen and GP has the...

Sigh...having real problems with my iPad and seeing where I can reply. So, thank you. I decided not to worry too much about fat and salt. Concentrate on carbs. Interestingly I have found the traffic light system as used by M&S for example to be helpful. However no packaging I have seen mentions...

Getting tricky for me to see where to reply. Not a straightforward forum... Things I decided= ****** Edited by moderator for language

good morning all. Not trivialising the title but wanted to check in. Ok, since having T2 confirmed 10 days ago, I decided on beating myself up to lose weight as fast as I can. This involves a mixture of near starvation and checking foods and BS with my widget. It seems I only have to look at a...

Thank you. I have been on metformin for less than a week. Starter dose so I am not stupid enough to think i will have sorted out my lifestyle and health issues straight away. My experiment with brown rice is virtually my only foray into eating carbs in the past week.

Apologies...didn’t reply re the chili sauce. Sadly I love a particular brand of sweet chili sauce, delicious...but now the stash I have in my cupboard is going to be rehomed. Such is life. So yesterday I got my jar of hot chili...I do mean hot...and mixed it with a bit of water and xylitol. Not...

Always like a bit of wine at weekends. I also have a fair bit of decent fizz in the house but that seems to be a tad more tricky in terms of afterwards. Ah well, it’s trial and error at the moment. So armed with my gifted GlucoZen auto I tested pre meal = 10.4 Had a try at brown rice stir fry...

Heheheh. Read last week a glass - or two - of red wine is ok. Just as well, I have a decent wine rack in my kitchen and no chance am i giving away my nice Bordeaux, dream on. I can just about handle disposal of ketchup and my lovely chilli sauce but not my wine

Thank you to all. Re the meters, well my neighbour was given one by his GP. So no real consistency despite living in same area. No surprise there then. He gave me a spare one tonight, bless him. Plus the extras. So, testing commences. Makes sense to me to try foods such as basmati brown rice...

Thank you, I am aware of the issue re dogs but it’s always good to remind... Pretty frustrated at the moment because my GP can’t / won’t give me a blood glucose monitor so I have no idea as yet what may or may not affect my levels. It seems to be an issue that can be quite individual and it...

Hello, am newly diagnosed T2. Was a nurse in my working life but relatively poor working knowledge of living with this condition. So...journey begins. Have been looking for a soft drink, squash, cordial, whatever, that does not contain artificial sweeteners. Apart from concerns re safety, I am...