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I don’t know whether anyone realised, but tomorrow (Wednesday 29th) is the last day of the consultation period regarding the scope of the revised NICE clinical guidelineson diabetes (Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Diabetes in Children and Diabetes in Pregnancy) for use by the NHS in England...

'Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity' (Horace Mann).

Belzedar -- could you clarify about neuropathy being symmetrical? That 's not been my experience, but my neurophysiologist and endocrinologist are currently locked in argument about the causes of my neuropathy anyway.....

I’m not talking about peripheral neuropathy as such (I don’t have any, thank god) – more just about VERY low nerve conduction velocity. I had an NCV test where the neurophysiologist got quite anxious about how bad it was, and was convinced it had been very low for many years (it was one of those...

Bizarrely enough it's working fine for me at the moment, though I usually find that it cuts out altogether when I move between posts. Just goes to show that I'm always out of synch with everyone else.. :lol:

Jackie -- go to 'Greetings and Introductions' and click on 'New Posts' and use this to introduce yourself and explain your problems. You will soon get plenty of helpful responses.

Someone, somewhere, said it was good to vary the sweeteners that one took, so I oscillate between Splenda and Canderel. Is this a waste of time? (at least it means they get to share the profits between them). I was in a Starbucks the other day without my sweeteners and tried the Sweet & Low that...

I've been listening in the car to the new version of A Venetian Coronation 1595 by the Gabrieli Consort & Players. (well, you did ask...) The 8-minute introduction is a wonderful re-creation of a 16th-century festival atmosphere in a huge populous square -- church bells ringing, crowds...

Flapjacks (at least small pieces of them) are the one indulgence that I have clung onto after giving up all other sweet things. I tried to convince myself early on that as they had lots of oats they would be low GI. Anyway, I find that if I take a couple of pieces directly after a meal they...

Dawn, please don't take this as a criticism, but given that this is a public forum that many diabetics turn to for advice, could you please explain why you won't take medication even if this is at the price of having unhealthily high blood sugars?

Proper use of google is I think a vital resource for equipping you to interpret what doctors are saying and doing, and also for alerting you about which symptoms they might need to know about. The key thing is to be canny about the sites that you use. I find time and again that the Mayo Clinic...