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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    Excellent news Clive. Very pleased for you.
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    I have asthma also, it's not too bad as long as I use the inhaler as soon as I start to cough. My blood pressure went a little mad the other day, I had a pulse rate of 146 and I had only jusr got out of bed. Don't know why, but it's ok now. I felt some of the post s the other day were getting a...
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    How's Muggle today, well I hope
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    Sounds very much like our doctors. They say, try tomorrow at 8am. You phone at 8 and it's engaged, when you eventually do get through, you are then in a que. Your number 14, then before you get to number 1, the line goes dead. If thats not enough to put your blood pressure through the roof...
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    Good luck Clive. Hope your feeling better this morning. Ms xx
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    Scottie, Just try to keep fluids going. Small amounts of water. It's horrible when all the family feel ill at the same time. :-(
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    Your getting stronger by the day Scottie, well done.
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    Hi, Your right, testing can work out very expensive. In your experience testing once per day, is it best to test at the same time each day, or different times. Does it make any difference. I was testing with husbands blood pressure monitor yesterday. My heart was racing away when I got up. Bp...
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    Why when newbies arrive with very high BS 20+ and go onto a Very Low Carb Diet

    I don't think I would use " wikipedia " for research.
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    Why when newbies arrive with very high BS 20+ and go onto a Very Low Carb Diet

    Anyone think that diabetes could be hereditary. Lots of people keep on about a persons weight. I am the fourth person in my family to have type 2 diabetes, and we were not all over weight.
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    Why when newbies arrive with very high BS 20+ and go onto a Very Low Carb Diet

    So it's not just me then. There was I thinking I was the only, slow! Old! Newbie!
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    Why when newbies arrive with very high BS 20+ and go onto a Very Low Carb Diet

    Beta cell damage, until reading this thread I had never heard of it. Research, are we saying that everyone with diabetes should do their own research. My brother is 75, he is type 2. He doesn't have a computer, his children has shown him how to use a "fancy phone. " Do I tell him stop...
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    Can I have some of your carbs? ;)
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    Your so right, we are each on our individual journey. Me I'm sitting on the back of the tortoise, I'll get there in the end.
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    Hi Scottie, You know your doing the correct things. Try to stress less, I know it's easier said than done. Try to think of the posertive things in your life. Try to keep a good record of what your eating etc, I'm sure this will help when seeing the doctor. Keep off the scales, it's only...
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    Numbness

    Thanks for the info, will check that out.
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    Are you keeping a good record of your bs and what you are eating. I think you need professional help Scottie. When you do get to see someone remember to take your record with you. Try not to get too disheartened.
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    Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

    A cuddle in bed I think is the best medicine ever.:)