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  1. Blackpoolnurse

    Feel like my friends are getting bored with my diabetes

    Abzio, at the end of the day you have to deal with it, not them. I was diagnosed at 14 and that was 30 years ago... Make sure you control your diabetes and not let your diabetes control you. People live with far, far more debilitating conditions, but your friends need you to tell them what a...
  2. Blackpoolnurse

    How did you find out you had diabetes?

    I was 14 years of age and had just returned from an amazing vacation in France with my parents. My Mum was a Nurse and tested my wee. Told me I was almost certainly diabetic. I cried, thinking that like my Uncle, I would lose my legs, become wheelchair bound and incontinent. (He died shortly...
  3. Blackpoolnurse

    Am I having side effects of metformin?

    Hi Jack. I have been diabetic (Type 1) for 30 years this year and on Metformin (in various forms) for 14 of those years. I thought that I was having the same side effects as you, but it turns out that I have Coeliac Disease... Diabetes and Coeliac disease are often related as they are both...
  4. Blackpoolnurse

    Lisinopril and Blood Glucose Levels

    Hi Folks, I have recently been prescribed Lisinopril for Hypertension (Secondary) and I wondered whether anyone else has had issues with blood glucose levels plummeting? I am well aware that with Levemir and Novorapid, both of which I am on, are affected by this medication, in terms of...