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I didnt want to ask this elsewhere here lest i attract a series of scathing comments about eating carbs... but anyway i was looking at the online site lowcarbmegastore and saw a new product called Carbalose glour which they claim is 80% fewer carbs than ordinary wheat flour. It claims not to...

I cant buy any prepared curry sauces or pastes because they're all, without exception, contaminated by nuts or seeds. I used to love curries and it's been getting me down, all this deprivation etc etc so i spent what seemed like several hours in Tescos and came home with a tin of Madras curry...

Does anyone know of a handy hint for dealing with nausea whilst still maintaining an acceptable b.g. level, please? I must have a germ i suppose because on Saturday i felt really tired and achey but otherwise fine. Sunday i woke at dawn with a splitting headache that refused to leave all day...

I was wondering if anyone here has experience of this drug now it's off prescription? The claims are that it doubles weight-loss when following a low fat diet but that it causes umm...problems in the bottom and toilet depts. Incontinence and desperate dashes to the toilet, to be blunt! Is...

Second thread started today... I dont know why but after 18 months since diagnosis i seem to have hit a huge block in my diabetes. I'm wondering has anyone else here found themselves in a similar position and if so, have they any sage advice to offer? Since diagnosis i lost over four and a...

I know this sounds mad but i am getting grief from my Mum, bless her - she went to one of her 'ladies meetings' the other week and assures me that one of the guest speakers was an expert on diabetes and told the assembled that diabetics MUST wear wrap-around sunglasses in any bright conditions...

Does anyone else here experience what feels like a 'low' when they arent technically so? I sometimes think my body's normal range is between 4.4 to 6.00 because now and then i start to feel really spaced-out and vague (no jokes from the back, please!) and typically, this occurs when i am extra...

Hi, i'm new to this board but not new to diabetes. I was diagnosed as Type 2 last August '07 and so far have managed OK using a mixture of diet (low carbs), exercise and Metformin. The Met is mainly 'cos i have really annoying DP which wasnt responding even though my first HbA1c was 5.6 and my...