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I also have spurious aches and pains, but also have arthritis. I was lucky enough to spend a fair amount of time in Asia until 2 yrs ago. In that climate I rarely had pain flare ups. However, in a country where asprin and ibuprofen are prescription drugs I started taking the over the counter...

Are you 100% that it is CFS? I ask because my DN said this was the reason I was so tired, and over a year of moaning at her I bypassed her and went to the GP who said, lets do a blood test. The results were that despite taking supplements my Vit D was off the end of the scale and my B12...

Avocados only have 3g carb in them, so not going to do diddly squat to a hypo! .... or any other time you do a BS reading I am type 2 (gliclazide twice a day), but noticed that after swimming 500+ metres my BS raises often by a couple of point from say 6.5 to 8 for several hours I am told...

You can buy Adkins diet chocolate bars in many supermarkets. Some of the Adkins stuff is like what I imagine eating play doh would be like, but this is OK. So eat that instead whilst you are weaning yourself off chocolate. Also if its the cocoa hit your body is craving but the really black...

On the subject of white coffee, the villain in the piece is actually creamer, as its mainly corn syrup powder. Stuff like coffeemate. One spoon might not harm but in the course of a day out you could clock up enough drinks to mean you need to pee a bit more on the journey home. Milk isnt...

Sadly this is not unusual and one of the reasons we dont go into McD's. Best way is to show them up by tweeting at them. Its bad publicity they have to address as its so very public.

Slow release metformin just went straight through me,I could have been swallowing pebbles for all the good it did

Sincere sympathies. From my view point metformin is pure evil. Gliclazide is fine for me and I have also used forxiga but the doc doesnt like it for other reasons. I have also tried trajenta but that actually put my BS up!!! Just keep speaking to your care tean, as there are plenty of...

Start with one metformin a day and see how it goes. Not everyone gets on with the stuff - i dont - so ease into it gently. if you get your diet right you wont need statins, and at your level of cholesterol its not urgent. I think they have a bee in their bonnet about statins. My doc wants...

Why dont you join slimming world. Not so much to lose weight but to learn about healthy eating. Insist that this is how you are going to eat and you want her to keep you company on this diet. She will/should lose weight and so her diabetes will become more controlable. Hopefully she will get...

I do 3 - 5 long haul trips a year (Maybe i ought to move to Asia!!!) and always aim to run my blood sugar a little on the high side during flights. I am usually under 7 but on flights look for 8.5. I order normal meals, sometimes with fruit rather than dessert. I once ordered a diabetic meal...

I had flu in 2000 that made me extremely ill, and took 6 months to recover from, 2 months of which I could not walk comfortably as it inflamed my hip joints. Never again thankyou, I will take the jab. However I think the pnuemonia one is not as good as it sounds as I still got pnuemonia last...

My opinion based on personal experience is that Metformin is pure evil. If your stomach is that upset by it, you wont be absorbing much of it, so it wont do that much to your sugar levels. There are plenty of other oral treatments you could use. Dont be a martyr to the discomfort, although it...

I havent found an artificial sweetener I actually like, so will go with fructose based ones for the very few times i want sweetener, Afterall they are approved by D UK. I have a prob with the taste of Stevia too, I guess its the malto dextrin filler they use.

Keep taking the tablets and keep all the appointments you get called for. Also persue the dietitian for another appointment. Adjusting the diet is good too - reduce carbs, avoid sugar and fruit juice. Learn which fruits are lowest in carbs/sugar and reduce the high ones such as grapes in...

Metformin doesnt agree with me, but when I was first diagnosed T2 the doc was determined I was going to take it and kept changing the dose around and swapping from standard to modified release. With Just one standard release my blood sugars came down -so did my weight. Increasing the dose...

Try using Agave Nectar or Sweet freedom syrup instead of honey as a treat. Its less of hit on the blood sugar levels.

This might just be clutching at staws, but with 2 in the same family diagnosed with diabetes, I would be pushing for a genetic screen to rule out MODY. Awareness of this is very limited even amongst diabetic nurses. MODY is mid aged onset diabetes of the young. It is an inherited form of...

My doc flatly refuses to prescribe Forxiga with Gliclazide as he says its against NICE guidelines but I have combed the guidelines myself and cant find . Actually your combination sounds good, maybe you would be Ok on just 2 of them but there will be a reason your doc has given you all 3, so...

Sorry Meljp to say this but its on going. I was taken off forxiga yesterday, partly because of this problem but partly for 'political'/ NICE reasons............... grrrrrr!!!