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Hi Cugila No worries. Perhaps I misinterpreted this part of your comment. goji :)

Lots of people use this forum to raise awareness or complain about the poor health advice we are given by the NHS - eg. poor dietary advice, poor advice on testing for Type 2 diabetics etc. Mog mentioned that we don't hear about the effects of diabetes on women's sexual functioning. I went on...

Hi Sue I agree that women's sexual functioning is multifactorial but everything you say of women can also be applied to men. For example, men of any age can get ED for multiple reasons including psychosexual, metabolic (diabetes/hypothyroidism), neurological, hormonal (hypogonadism), alcohol...

And a bit more to add to this..... In the NICE guidelines on management of Type 1 diabetes, we have professionals being told to proactively conduct annual screening for sexual dysfunction in IDDM males whereas there is no mention for screening in IDDM females....... 1.11.4 Neuropathy and...

Sorry guys, maybe I am not making my point very well. I will try again. I'm not talking about doing a search for female sexual dysfunction in general, I'm talking about the specific information that the NHS puts out about diabetic complications and sexual dysfunction. When you are first...

Thanks Cugila for the links. However what I am talking about is a lack of NHS information about diabetes and its connection to female sexual dysfunction. For example if you look at the NHS Choices website page on Diabetes Complications you will find the only mention of sexual dysfunction (as a...

Hi Manogwent HanaDr knows a place in the UK to get benfotiamine that is cheaper than the link that Cugila posted - you could try pm'ing her. Personally I buy mine from the States as it works out a lot cheaper than getting it in the UK even with shipping costs. Unfortunately I am not allowed...

Interesting post - thanks for that link. I've seen quite a few articles lately on the connection between glutenintolerance/coeliac and autoimmune disease eg. http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... e-insights

That's a good point Moggy. We hear all about ED but there is very little health information from the NHS with regards to diabetes and sexual dysfunction in women. Have you tried talking about it to your Diabetic nurse or GP? There might be stuff they can do. Cugila it's great that you got your...

I used to manage care services for vulnerable people in an area where there were constant drives to cut budgets. Several years ago, social services managers became enthusiastic about promoting the use of Telecare and offered us all kinds of grants to take up the services. It turned out that...

I have found that a tablespoon of flax seeds/linseeds and a psyllium husk tablet work well! :D goji

I think women care not so much about what disease you have got but about your attitude to caring for yourself, managing your disease etc. If a woman can see that you don't care for yourself, that you skip injections or that you aren't comfortable with your own disease, then it may well be that...

Did you read that somewhere Howie? I'd be interested to see any more info you have. I'm taking benfotiamine (imported from the States). It is quite expensive. If we could eventually get it on the NHS that would be great. I don't see why it would matter to them whether it's classed as a vitamin...

Don't just assume it's solely the diabetes that's causing the problem - you could have low testosterone. There are a number of studies that have found low testosterone in Type 2 males and more recently in Type 1 males as compared to the normal population...

As the others suggest - you'd be best off asking the doctor about treatment rather than buying any supplements. When i had low ferritin my doctor prescribed a course of iron. Also a lot of doctors just go on the haemoglobin and don't pay attention to ferritin but it is worth noting that some...

You can get good deals on most vitamins from the States.... (Link removed as commercial link,we do not allow this particular site to be linked on the forum .Sugarless Sue senior Moderator) You have to factor in the shipping cost (around $4) but it still works out cheaper. I buy a lot of my...

Hi Dillinger You might be interested in this video from a conference on Vitamin D and it's relationship to diabetes. The findings discussed are very interesting though the data is epidmiological. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTtmvMvgfl0 goji

Just to look at this from another angle..... are all your other hormones okay at the moment? High levels of cortisol can increase insulin resistance. We can produce higher levels of cortisol when under long term stress. Also our natural cortisol rhythm means that we produce the most cortisol...

I am taking 150mg of Benfotiamine at the moment to ward off potential complications. I started taking 450mg but I got really bad pins and needles in my feet and hands so I cut the dose down. It's hard to know if it actually has any effect as I didn't have peripheral neuropathy to begin with. I...

Hi Nik Sorry to hear about your aunty's monitor. Sorry I don't have one of those. This is probably a dumb question but have you already tried to replace the battery? There's one here on ebay india - http://onlineshop.rnib.org.uk/display_i ... 0&it=1&l=3 - it says they ship to India but maybe...