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I'm type 2, diagnosed December 2008, after originally being taken into hospital with chest pains and numbness/cold sensations running up my legs and arms (not the best day of my life), since then I've had subtle pains mainly in my left chest and arm but also in my right side, although not as...

I was diagnosed type 2 among other things after taking Champix to stop smoking, I have also just read an article on Champix side effects and theres a very small mention on the possible link between the drug and onset of type 2, has anyone else experienced this?

Hi all, a few days ago I suffered a spiderbite of all thigs that has led to an infection in my leg thats being treated with strong antibiotics, the doc recommended that I should get some "friendly bacteria" type youghurts, although I'm nowhere near convinced at their use in obtaining a udeful...

Hi all, just wondered at what point my doctor would be likely to agree to me reducing my metformin, I'm on 3 x 500mg a day, just had my first hba1c back and its down from 8.0 at diagnosis to 5.8, despite me jumping off the bandwagon for the last 2 weeks before the test and eating everything in...

Hi all, back again with more maladies, following on from my last foray of dodgy symptoms and stopping my statin things are pretty much.....unchanged :( I've been suffering with chest pains (original cause for hospitalisation last December when Diabetes type 2 was diagnosed), dizziness...

Ok, so since December I've spent a week in hospital feeling really ill, a lot of tme at the doctors (changed surgery in the hope of getting somewhere with all this) and have basically lost my business through not being able to work. My last visit to the doctors (Monday) it was decided that...

Following on from my possible allergy, constant dizziness and swelling/colour change of the hands etc I have finally managed to see a doctor today about my blood test results. The main one he mentioned was a high CPK count (something to do with muscle enzymes in the blood) which led him into...

Been to see the diabetic nurse today and highlighted the redness, puffiness and itching/burning sensation that comes and goes mainly in my hands throughout the day but is always at its worst in the evening and the fact that it all started at the same time as I was put on Simvastatin and...

Ok, so I was diagnosed type 2 mid December after being taken into hospital with chest pains and some weird sensations in various parts of my body and since I was discharged from hospital a week later they have gradually subsided and been forgotten, until yesterday :( Since lunchtime yesterday...

Hi all, I've been looking around the forum for a while now and thought that I should finally post something up so here goes... I was diagnosed type 2 mid December last year (I was rushed into hospital twice in 24 hours :oops: , the cause of which was never found but diabetes was) and have...