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Many thanks to all who have responded. Do please have a think about this everyone. Lots of people on the forum are very eloquent about problems and positives of diabetes care and how they have dealt with it. This is your chance to feed your experiences to people who might make some important...

Hi all: This year the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Diabetes have launched a yearlong investigation under the theme "Diabetes Care: improving standards and reducing variation". To support their investigation they need to hear from people affected by diabetes, healthcare...

She has said some stupid things, I agree, and I'm certainly no Tory. But the 'D' issue needs stamping on.

I would have thought the basic point is that we have already had her opponents claiming that she could not be an effective PM because she is a T1 diabetic (as opposed to being an alcoholic or clinically mad, which seems to go with the territory). Once that argument has been made I feel we have...

Try saying LADA or MODY when you are organizing travel insurance and be ready for a pointless conversation...

Neither -- I'm MODY :)

I would urge you to contact your HCP to discuss altering size and timing of your dosage - increasing carby snacks to counteract the impact of gliclazide seems precisely the wrong way round to me. I had problems initially on gliclazide in the form of late morning or mid-afternoon hypos. Switching...

Hi. Does he experience unexplained breathlessness as well? @Bluetit1802 is right about a BP monitor: they are very cheap and good to have around

Well I'm going to learn Chinese (make of that what you will)

Snap! - I added asparagus too. I know it's cheating but still in a good cause..

If you can't face cooking but want a tasty, low-carb meal, try the new M&S superfood cod and sweet potato bake. Only 16g carb and very filling. Worked for me, anyway. I know we're meant to avoid ready-meals and cook by ourselves with fresh ingredients, but sometimes the spirit is willing but the...

Scriabin Piano Sonata no.5 (OK, I may be in a minority here...):

Sounds irresistible, doesn't it? and how could you argue with statistics that 'An early trial on 22 men in Chile found it kept blood sugar under control for months'? So would a low-carb diet, but of course that hasn't been proven clinically to work (apparently).

Also made front page of The Times....

Thanks, @catherinecherub. I had been taking the steroids 4 times a day for 2 weeks. The effects now seem to be wearing off after a week and a half. But I thought it was interesting that in these cases one expects 'can cause higher blood glucose' to mean a general rise in levels, whereas what I...

After years of fairly tight control my BGs have started going crazy -- suddenly leap to 14 (and always to 14 -- hadn't seen a number anywhere near that since diagnosis) for no discernible reason. Steroids are assumed to be the root cause and I have stopped taking them after discussing all this...

Hi -- no need to apologise, and I quite take your points. I wouldn't want to suggest that there isn't a test that can definitively identify MODY - it's more that there isn't necessarily a test that can definitely discount it. MODY occurs where there are specific mutations on specific genes, as...

Do bear in mind that you could also be MODY -- but again GAD and c-peptide aren't definitive. Is there diabetes T1 or 1.5 in your family? (often a useful indicator)

The suggestion that metformin is prescribed to 'keep money rolling into their coffers' is absurd -- it is, as my GP put it, 'as cheap as chips' -- THAT is why it is prescribed. Also because it helps the body to use insulin more efficiently, does not damage beta cells, generally doesn't cause...

Nice to hear someone else found quinoia didn't work for them! I stocked up on it because so many diabetics swear by it, but I found it just as bad as rice. Ditto bulgar wheat. In the end, I find that portion size and what it's eaten with is the key. Small spoonful of basmati rice as part of meal...