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For the paxt fews weeks I have been getting itchy blotches on my back and stomach. The itching starts before the blotches appear, they are not bites, and don't seems to have heads. The patches are about 1cm in size, bur are not regular in shape, and they appear in random places, not enough to be...

some mornings my blood sugars have been higher than expected, for no apparent reason. After a nasty fall last night whilst sleepwalking, it would appear I have been eating in My sleep. Has anyone heard of or suffer from this, and what is likely to be the cause? Apparently I have been doing this...

I'm not a veggie lover, so tend to get my 5 a day from fruit, but can you have too much fruit? I usually have 2 pieces for breakfast, 1 for lunch and then 1 or 2 after my evening meal. My preferred fruits are berries of any sort, grapes, pears, bananas and satsumas. The only time I can eat...

I know that exercise and general activities can be given a 'calories used' value, but is there any equivalent way of judging how many carbs you use on a given activity, I do a fast, well for me, walk 5 days a week. It takes me 40 minutes to do about 2 miles, is there any way, other than testing...

Last night when I checked my sugar levels, I was expecting them to be In the 7's, which is a bit on the high side side for me. 3 readings, within a minute gave me the following results, Middle finger, 8.8 Ring finger 11.5 Index finger 7.6 Has anyone any idea why I got such differing results...

I was diagnosed with T2 11 months ago. Since then I have managed to lose 3 stone and 2 dress sizes. About a month ago I felt a depression in my scalp, to the left of and slightly forward of my crown. Since then it has changed shape from a dent to a furrow, and is moving forward and can be felt...

Hello everybody, I was diagnosed with Type2 diabetes in early July this year. I had been on steroids for 4 months before that, and the GP thinks that the steroids triggered the diabetes, although I had been having annual fasting blood tests for 3 or4 years before that. I was put on Metformin...

Hello, I'm very newly diagnosed, last Thursday 30/6 in fact. so I am still finding out what is what. Had a chat with the Dr who is the diabees specialist at our medical centre and she said that home made muesli was OK. Just about to make up a new batch, but the sugar/carbo content of some of...