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Try Taiko drumming. The beat keeps you going and drives your neighbours mad.

Champix worked for me and I found it quite easy. The dreams are brill ! Best part of it in my opinion. Where can I get some more? You can't see how it is going to work with Champix because you carry on smoking to begin with but soon, you just start smoking half and quarter cigarettes and also...

You may have started off in the pre diabetic stage but got it back under control before it progressed. The main thing to do is reinforce what you are doing and don't let up. Early morning readings should be enough, before breakfast. Keep them below 6.0. If you start to daily exercise, they will...

My wife works in the haematology lab and they get samples from GPs every day. It is not unusual to retest and it is not unusual to wait. Phone calls are the usual way thesedays. It's cheaper than stamps and quicker for the admin. If it were something serious, they would ask you to come in...

Atorvastatin doesn't affect my BG at all but it is easy for yuo to test if you have a meter. You'd need to stop taking it for a few days to get what's left out of your system, but after 5 or 6 days, if it is elevating your levels, it should become apparant. At 4.25, you are not in imminent...

I thought Desmond copped off with Dafne and were pushing for suspension on full pay so they could frolic together at the tax payers expense. Or maybe they became MPs?

Your doctor is correct to say that fructose is not an insulin secretagogue, ie eating it doesn't cause insulin to be released. But, it's not the full story. Glycolysis, the way Glucose is metabolised is different from Fructolysis, ie the way Fructose is metabolised. Glucose is metabolised widely...

Many type 2s will respond well to a substantial weight loss almost irrespective of how the weight loss is achieved. The key points appear to be: 1. Very careful with carbs to avoid further damage and also very useful for weight loss 2. Weight loss helps unblock some inactive beta cells, some...

Not quite. When your blood glucose drops to something in the 3s, your liver uses its glycogen stores to top you up. It is when your liver glycogen stores are depleted that ketogenesis occurs. There are several similar sounding functions, gluconeogenesis, glycogenolysis and so on and each has a...

It takes time and depends on what your readings were at the time of diagnosis too. After 3 months I got my HBA1c down from 86 to 48 and it took a few more months to get it into the 30s. Just carry on with what you are doing and be patient. You could alter your exercise regime to do something...

That was after an hour or so. I had other things as well, a large plate of wheat noodles, a banana, orange, and a rather nice orange liqueur it wasn't just the bun. The important thing is the big drop within an hour. No exercise, no vinegar, nothing to hurry it along. I was simply watching TV...

Hi Sunhat. I too lost a lot of weight and got my HBA1c back into the normal zone by radically altering my diet. I have 2 red meat days, two poultry days, two fish days and 1 vegetarian day per week. I eat carbs but stick to low GI carbs, brown rice, rye bread, lentils and beans, pearly barley...

Dawn phenomenon means that your blood glucose levels have dropped to something below 4.0 during the night and it is your body's homeostatic response to stop you going hypoglycaemic. Without it, you might not wake up and simply end up in a coma. It's prolongued high blood glucose levels that...

I met a girl who was jiggling her bottom and moving rapidly from one leg to the other and I asked her why she was dancing. She replied that she wasn't dancing but that her doctor had told her to take her medicine in her back passage. I asked if it had somehow irritated her but she said no, 'I'm...

My wife is a biomedical scientist and works in the hospital labs. She's full of real life stories like that, especially with the warfarin clinic. The best stories though are from A&E: Bizarre tales from A&E

My mate of nearly 50 years bought me a hamper full of jams and fruit cake for my birthday. He asked if this was OK for me. Lawyers, daft as a brush. You've got to laugh.

How does one eradicate ignorance in the world? I could be cruel and say that by asking how one eradicates ignorance, places you amongst them. I am of course being ironic. It has been a tenet of philosophy and religion and I suppose, many 'isms' and 'ologies'. Do what you can. Don't expect to...

There are two types of test. 1. Blood plasma test, which is a test which measures the glucose in your blood plasma at that point in time, ie a snapshot and 2. HBA1c test, which is the amount of gycated haemoglobin in your blood. This is very different to a plasma test and is a record of the...

tuna, feta cheese and olives go well on a bed of salad, drizzle a little oil on and finish off with a splash of balsamico. If you want to turn up the heat, add a few slices of pickled chilli: If you have a freshly squeezed lemon juice in a drink, it'll tone down the chilli afterwards.

Tuna melts and tuna and cheese toasties are common enough if you google them. I eat rye bread with a layer of cream cheese, some rocket and then smoked salmon, so it's not a million miles from tuna and with cheese. Here's a nice looking tuna and cheese melt on ciabatta: If I had it, I'd use...