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    What are your alcohol rules?

    I had been a fairly minimal drinker before diagnosis anyway. The only thing that has changed is that instead of having 3 or 4 halves of lager shandy on the couple of times a year I meet some former work colleagues I tend to have halves of lager in order to avoid the sugar in the lemonade as I...
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    Why isn't everyone given a meter?

    When I was diagnosed and started on control by diet I was prescribed the urine test strips and as it was proving difficult to monitor my progress with these I bought my own meter and test strips. When I went in to the Nurse for my diabetes review whe criticised me for buying the meter and even...