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    Can We Talk About Small Towns & Big Cities?

    I'm a pensioner from Manchester living in North Wales for thirty odd years. Had a small holding on Anglesey thirty years ago with ducks pigs goats geese chickens and loved it. I now live in a very small village part way up some big hills that are apparently mountains and I love it. Could never...
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    Feeling really desperate, eye test showed background retinopathy

    I had retinopathy left eye my very first test. Since then it has repaired itself and subsequent tests have been fine. Had one Monday not got the results yet.
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    Feeling really desperate, eye test showed background retinopathy

    If you're T2 why on earth do you eat cakes crisps etc?
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    Pregabalin for Nerve Pain

    I'm on a strong opiate called Palexia. I packed it in recently and tried CBD oil .... fine for a very short period. Went back on opiates by way of a morphine patch my blood pressure rocketed. After three days I was off the patches and am now back o the Palexia. Tapentadol prolonged release...
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    Pregabalin for Nerve Pain

    Marketed in the U.K under the brand name Lyrica. I have spinal cord tumours and other spinal cord damage and was prescribed Lyrica. Within three days I refused to take anymore. I was sitting silently staring at the pc screen .... there was no one in. My wife loved the peace and quiet! I'm full...
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    Petition to improve mental heath with those of us suffering with diabetes

    I don't seem to suffer from diabetes it's just something I have and something I live with. Who is expected to give this support and who and how will it be paid for and is it really necessary for every diabetic? I don't want it but the questions are genuine.
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    Cbd Oil Vs Metformin

    The award winning CBD vape oil around here is LiveWell. Online it's Provacan who are an Iraeli company whoc moved to the UK in 1969 because working with anything cannabis was illegal in Israel. They are the people who first vdiscovered and isolated THC and same for CBD so you can't really get a...
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    Potassium

    Bananas are also high in sugar.
  9. J

    Night Outs!

    You'll get bored with it all soon and stop going so don't worry about it.
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    Vaping CBD oil.

    Of course I mean the vape oil. The food supplement labelled stuff from the likes of Holland and Barrett do nothing for me at all under the tongue. I'm getting the LiveWell 1000mg at the moment for eighteen quid .... award winning product full spectrum winterised .... Google is your friend...
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    Should I take statins

    It's looking like statins may have triggered T2 in me as I met no criteria whatsoever to become T2 Do a little research also abot cholesterol and the brain. I had bad reactions to the stuff so packed them in. I got my bad cholesterol .... if there's such a thing and the good cholesterol again if...
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    Resistant starch

    I do it occasionally and I find it reheated especially the spuds pan fried taste better. Yes I think it helped me.
  13. J

    Elton John

    Well done with the smoking by the way. Few years now since I stopped ... I found it very very difficult. Fifty roll ups a day since birth.
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    Elton John

    After a few years of control via diet .... no Metformin no Statins no blood pressure pills I've lost control! Glucose up but not worryingly. Blood pressure up but not worryingly. Cholesterol levels up the bad stuff up the good stuff down but not worryingly so .... back on the Metformin back on...
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    Music Lessons in the potting shed

    I have no idea what you're on about. I only use a pc which goes through a hifi amp and then stereo speakers. My hobby is creating sounds and making music .... or trying to on pc with keyboard and a little guitar some loops made and borrowed. I think I'll leave you to it in this thread bye bye.
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    Music Lessons in the potting shed

    I feel like I'm being terribly nosy I had to Youtube Hildegard and very nice it is too. I like one of the comments .... Imagine approaching a cathedral in medieval times no radio no hifi etc occasional lute player down the pub and then you hear the sound of angels coming out the building ...
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