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I am newly diagnosed and over Chrisymas I gave developed a deep burning sensation in a small area on my upper back. Am going to doc but wondered if this could be relayed to diabetes. Skin looks normal but the pain is deep and ot feels like bad sunburn! Is pain through diabetes confined to the...

Hi, am supposed to be managing my T2 with diet only and testing was not talked about. Should I go back to my doc? If 'everyone is different' and carbs are tricky to get right surely I will not know if my diet choices are right or wrong. I do not know my bloods will be checked again to find out...

I have just had my eye test and wish to make two points. Firstly, the nurse on the course I went on, a youngish woman, told us that the test would be VERY painful, eye drops that make your eyes sting like crazy BUT is an essential check. MUST suffer and do it. Everyone is dirterent but for me...

I have been told to control my diabetes by diet and am hoping I am doing things right but have not been told about testing, nevermind being offered it. I have lost almost 10kg in weight taking me from morbidly obese to obese and I feel better for that. I just don't know if it is the weightloss...

Not on meds and not testing and have been eating healthy balanced meals but not today. Teacake for breakfast, porridge for lunch and chicken soup for dinner, oh, and a handful of nuts. Hoe dangerous is a col to me? Can't eat crunchy food as throat hurts.

Do you have to get starchy carbs from wholegrains or can you eat starchy veg duch as peas, instead? I do not want to eat bread and rice. Losing weight and feeling good on a diet without too much grainy food. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

One step forward two steps back is how I feel right now. My diet plan was so good that when I showed a week's worth of food diary to the diabetic nurse at my surgery she asked if she could keep it! I was losing kg a week and lost 6kg in total and then I went on first part of education course and...

In the Daily Express today I read that new research says diabetics should shun meat and dairy products. I am newly diagnosed and am now about to change diet for a third time in a month. If it grows in or on the ground or in trees I will eat it. Plus fish oil tablets and multi vitamin pills. No...

I am newly diagnosed T2 and yet to receive advice, just got leaflets and the internet to rurn to. Have had hard dry feet for 25 years and see a chiropodist every 6 weeks to get skin removed. My problem is that I have been walking lots since diagnosed to try and aid weightloss. Never worn socks...