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"I've tried getting an appointment with my GP and I did yesterday, only to be turned around and be told "you've been seen at the hospital and referred to a Gastro consultant, why you come?" Ring again, when they say that ask who the consultant is and what their secretary's phone number is. If...

Ring your GP and ask for an urgent appointment about these new symptoms. Regardless of what is causing them, they need looking into. You can read about all common drugs at the BNF, though it can be scary at times. This is about Metformin and the symptoms your wife is experiencing aren't...

Sounds to this very naive person like you are diabetic - type 2 - but your change in diet has sorted it out. The units are presumably % rather than the more usual (in the UK) mmol/mol. 10.5% = 91, 6.3 = 45. The good news is that 45 is in the pre-diabetes range. Losing weight helps with type...

This diagnosis is a huge shock, as you will see from other posts. And unfortunately the body shape you have is a higher risk for diabetes. :( Next time you speak to the nurse or doctor and they give you numbers, ask them what the test was, and what units the numbers are in. If the test is an...

It is very overwhelming - look at many of the other posts here. A year on I still resent my diagnosis, but I still made the changes to diet & exercise I needed to make, and I wasn't put on medication. However my GP is not your GP, and my test results are probably not your test results. I...

Is it possible to buy these in the UK? Plenty of places selling the seed, the gourd seems hard to come by/

The 'they' are being economical with the truth. Yes, being overweight and inactive can help it along, but can your genetics.

The cholesterol or the diabetes? Your HbA1c is only just into the diabetic range, you probably don't have to change much to get it to go down. Mostly cut out sugary stuff - that includes brown sugar, honey and the various syrups - reduce carbs and that might be enough. If you are concerned...

That's news to me that slightly higher cholesterol is protective in older women? Got any references? Even if it is, it might depend on HDL / LDL balance? I do know that it tends to be higher in older people. However I go back to my original comment - @liverbirdie should discuss it with her...

My own approach gleaned from here was to almost completely cut out carbs. I tried brown pasta, it was sort of OK but I've not made pasta sauce for quite some time. I tried brown rice and thought it disgusting. I mostly cut out potatoes - they are a treat now (not long before new pots are...

Beautiful cats. I love all black, and black & white cats. I think one I lost last year had mild asthma, but he never accepted the mask on the spacer. As to my own asthma, I normally never need the salbutamol inhaler, nor the full dose of the steroid one. Every 4-5 years I get a virus that...

It can be a huge shock - it certainly was for me. It took me a year to get over it enough to join this forum! Thankfully I did however change my diet and it's paying off in terms of reduced HbA1C and reduced weight. Remember that whilst the statins *can* affect blood sugar and it is a common...

I don't watch movies unless it's 'Some Like it Hot' or anything with Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire and any of his dance partners! Oddly my asthma diagnosis didn't have the same result even though it also is life-long. I think that's because I was so ill with coughing at night that once I was on...

I've never been to a cat café - I have four at home so it seems superfluous! And I got diagnosed as a result of one of the cats biting me. He had an abscess on his tail, I picked him up and he sunk his teeth in good & proper. Went to the local walk-in as cat bites should ALWAYS be treated...

No need to apologise, you were by no means the only one at that time. It felt like the Andrex puppies had been let lose! The macho vibe was because it seemed to be mostly men treating it that way. I've not really looked much for the past year and I see now it's mostly people with my...

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Is it quicker than cleaning up grated fingers? :) The cleaning is partly why I think I need to make enough for several meals at one time, and the dishwasher is wonderful...

Hi Going into a flat spin when diagnosis seems pretty common which isn't really surprising. Try to get on with sensible changes to your lifestyle whilst you spin! Unfortunately brown sugar - or honey, or syrup etc. - is no better than white sugar. It might help to drink something different...

I would say that all ready meals, low fat & low calorie foods are suspect, and alcohol is a very easy and pleasant way to take in lots of calories. I don't know if you live with a partner and/or children. I don't, that made almost entirely cutting out carbs fairly easy, and doing that has lead...

I was actually diagnosed a year ago - HbA1c of 56 - but it sent me into such a flat spin it was some months before I could bear to look here. At the time it felt full of rather macho 'I will beat it into submission' posts and I simply looked at them and closed the browser window. However I...