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Sorry to hear about your bad experience, I guess the reaction of the waitress, shows that she was overworked and had too much to do, all for the minimum wage I bet, and she was trying to look after the company that is screrwing her. I had a similar experience in Asda in Motherwell, last year, I...

Thanks Trink. I did stop it for a while last year when the practise nurse in Scotland said she wanted to see my Hba1c upto 7 but it went up, tho I wasn't being as strict with myself as I can be. I'll wait till i get my current results back and see what they are then I'll give it a try if I'm...

vecause when I was put on it 3 years ago some people on a.s.d.u.k reckoned it would kill some cells in my pancreas and its allways in the back of my mind wandering about it.

I've been home in Ireland for Xmas, and I've been to see my doc and got 4 packets of glucose test strips, tho maybe that will change in the current economic climate. I also had my blood tests and will get my results on the 20th, so if my hba1c is 6 ish I was thinking of stopping the diamicron...

Hi Sue, I'm a type 2 taking metformin 500 mg 3 times a day and diamicron 30 mg once a day

I'm working in Glasgow at the moment on a project for Qatar, I'm allready doing 12 hour days, and half days at the weekend, I've settled into a groove re my diet, and keep my bg fairly stable, despite the attempts of the practise nurse at the gp's I registered at, and also their refusal to let...

I eat once a week at a chinese eat all you can buffet, and i have a small bowl of chicken and sweetcorn soup, with just a small amout of the sweetcorn, then 3 or 4 ribs, some fan tailed prawns, a bit of shredded duck, then i have some egg fried rice not too much with some roast pork and beef n...

I made myself a curry tonite, fresh mince, olive oil, onions,mushrooms pepper 2 teaspoons of mrs pataks paste, and half a tin of tomatoes. I also made some chapati's using wholemeal flour and plain flour for the rolling out. I guess I had about 5 or 6 oz of the curry and 4 of the 6" half cooked...

I like that response, I don't really consider myself a patient, my sinning is down to maybe having a bananna fritter with a smidgen of syrup every couple of months. Before I'd have tried to eat a troughfull with a bucket of syrup or two.

I'm a member of AA and I don't drink at all now, I slipped off the wagon three and a half years ago for a few months, and the diabetes nurses reckoned it was my alcoholism tipped me over into type 2 diabets

Thanks Catherine :)

I got on good terms with a locum GP in Ireland, I was tired all the time,and she told me that my B12 reading was bouncing along the bottom of the normal range, so she said I needed Vitamin B12 injections initially 3 monthly, I've since found out that after 8 weeks I really start to slow down...

Nicky and Flying Rat, I'll pass on your regards Hi Trinky, its all coming back to me, I remember you as well, I'm getting my strips when I go back to ireland, so thats good. This forum is good, none of that utter **** thats on the ng's thank god. I was really scared when the nurse said she...

I had the same thing very blurred vision when my bg's first came down to, i went and got a new pair of glasses, I told the bastid optician i was newly diagnosed with diabetes, but she still sold me a pair of glasses that I didn't need, after a while. I bought the book "Diabetes the first...

Hi, I live in Ireland and get as many test strips as I need, but I have been working in Scotland for 4 months so registered witha gp here, and assigned to the practise nurse, she refused to give me test strips, because I am a type 2, and don't need them, and I should only need to test once a...