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The diabetic doctor has offered to put me on pioglitazone but I have recently read that this has been linked to bladder cancer? My understanding is that the control of my diabetes far outweighs the risk of taking pioglitazone but I would still worry about such a trade off. I would like to ask...

In the past with the help of Diabetes.co.uk members I have been able to control my blood glucose levels via my oral meds and low carb diet but now my fasting bloods have recently been 12.4 and today I managed to get them down to 9.5. At 70 years of age after 30 years as a type 2 diabetic I am...

Update on my diabetes plan of action: Having been at between 11.5mmol/l and 18.6mmol/l over a considerable time which was quite frankly killing me even though I was following the government guidelines for diabetes type 2. I decided 3 weeks ago to join diabetes.co.uk to learn what I could do...

Hi, I have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes since 1989 have been on meds for many years now. About 12 months ago I went on a diabetes expert course at my local hospital and until then had generally been well in control of my sugar levels. On the course we were taught that sugar is no...