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My GP wants me on statins because of the combination of diabetes(6.8)and high cholesterol(6.1/ratio 6.7)I’ve never had a cardiac event but that test to determines your risk puts me in 20% chance in ten years. Ive refused, hopefully i’m one of the 80% :)

In my case I had symptons of diabetes for years but h1 tests always came back ok so they were dismissed as not being due to diabetes but nothing else diagnosed and all other tests ok. After a few years i became prediabetic so the symptons were still dismissed as not being due to diabetes. Now...

I get this all this time , if say i don’t eat anything from breakfast till lunch(about 3 hours) and then start walking , i can get very shaky and feel like fainting. As soon as iI I eat anything in any amount the feeling goes away instantly. I’ve had thus all my life (even before being diagnosed...

bacon, 2 sausages roast lamb, 3 big yorkshire puddings, 8 roast potatoes, 2 carrots, pack of sage and onion stuffing, gravy 1/2 dish jelly 75 grams crisps, 100g packet cadbury toffee button things. litre coke 2 pint semi skimmed milk fasting sugar - no way am i testing. Don’t judge

well i started a low carb diet and I ve never felt better full of energy and the constant tiredness is gone, literally after a few days. The weird feeling is still there in mornings so im thinking thats not diabetes. I dont understand the coke thing, I tested every two hours during the day...

no even though i do have other things which mean i have greater chance of heart attack. However I do worry about leg amputations and diabetes!!!

I was offered one , but never went cause was the point when the info is on the internet.

i find if impossible to not shop every couple of dsys because supermarket barely has 10% of what i want stocked(loads empty shelves) and staff always but the stuff with thd longest dates in front so usually most food use by dates only have a couple of days before if expires. in this regards...

thx for the replies, i already get standard test ‘free’ as i wear contacts. As mentioned opticians now do this every 2 yrs, it used to be one. I guess I need to ask my GP if Ive been referred.

sorry if weren't clear I have had hb1ac thats the 6.6 is , i am diagnosed as having diabetes. I have loads of tests which are all come out as perfect. The only thing I fail is the diabetes test. Its weird but with finger pricking tests Im never out of range except if i eat white bread(which...

Hi, newly diagnosed. Should I be offered an diabetes eye test. Do I have a right to this? (In UK) tx

Hi, newly diagnosed, not too bad at 6.6. What I was wondering was for the last few yrs I’ve had weird feeling ,hard to explain, best expressed as feeling like s*** (sorry lang). Sort of just a general rundown feeling like when you have a cold. Always in morning, comes and gos through day...

Im prediabetic so im just trying to cut my carbs so as not to develop full blown t2. Also my BMI says im obese. i have bacon for breakfast, maybe not enough , i eat fish and have cheese(with every meal). Last night i just reached 2000 calories, however this was because i was cleaning out the...

thx for the replies, The infuriating thing is the doctors, not just one , dismiss my concerns when I mention this. What they normally do is just test me for diabetes, hence wondering if that was a normal amount for diabetics!!!

hi thxs for the replies my levels range from 6.4 to 6.6. I usually have the h1ab test done which I fail snd then i get a second test which i then pass, pattern repeats. Probably because if fail first i improve my diet. I have so many symptoms, need to urinate frequently, nerve problem in big...

Is it normal for people with T2 diabetes to go about twenty times a day? Asking cause I will probably be diagnosed at my next GP meeting and this is how much i go.

So I’m probably diabetic my h1abc keeps swinging above and below 6.5 so not officially diabetic. One of the symptoms I have read is fatigue, but this is a very vague term. I have been suffering fatigue, but more mental similar to like when you don't get any sleep and you just want to lay down...

I dont get it, I am looking at trying a low carb diet. This excludes or limits about 90% of what I eat. How do you get your 2000 calories a day. The only thing i ever drink is water, milk, coke. Obviously no coke and milk restricted so very little calories there. A whole bag of salad is only...

is 47, that bad?, mine came back 50, and I was like meh!, maybe I should be worried? For the last two weeks I've followed(baring two bad days) a lowish carb diet(30-75g a day) and my blood level has only twice gone above 6.2 (both 2hrs after eating) . Generally I am 5.0 -5.5. My bp has also...

blood test for something else. Read my results online with note attached saying contact nurse and phoned(my surgery assumes patient will ring them otherwise they do nothing). They even put note on to say patient informed before I read the results. They never inform patient! Anyway two days...