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Hi Can anyone help, please my sons girlfriend had a glucose tolerance test yesterday at local hospital. They rang her today to say that she had GD and they would be monitoring her more. As my husband and I are both diabetics, we have been checking her blood sugar ourselves over the last few...

Hi all LOL definitely confused.com now, the hospital have just rang today to ask bryan to go in this afternoon to have his operation tomorrow. Talk about a major communication breakdown.

hi And Lets just say last couple of days have got so complicated. Got a phone call from pre assessment on fri to ask if he could go in this Monday and they would put him on a sliding scale to have the op Tuesday night. Now we are totally confused.com lol. They've set no target score but gonna...

thanks kat and bluetit, the op has been cancelled for now till they get the levels down, changing our diet from other day and not eating as many carbs now. will probably take a few weeks for his levels to drop, but also seeing doctors again about what they can advise with regards to his diabetes...

Hi totto, his eyes are a slight problem, he has regular eye checks but because he also suffers with another condition As that he has had for over 20 years and this also affects his eyes in a condition called uveitis, they do tend to blame the diabetes, which I think is wrong. He did his blood...

Thanks for that advice Bluetit, we have never been told that , so will take that on board. He does check himself regularly with a meter and has been as low as 8.5. but even his doctors have admitted they may never get it under full control because of the fact he was undiagnosed for so many years...

he is metformin 500mg, glicazide and sitagliptin 100mg. all daily. we eat fairly well. Cereal on a morning either cornflakes, shredded wheat. Lunch just a simple sandwich and dinner is varied depending on the mood, could be a roast, his home made lasagne, with different vegetables. We know...

Hi im an Asthmatic too and have been since birth and im 50 this year so I guess over the years I probably would have had at least 1,000,000 mg of steroids, I was only diagnosed with Diabetes a year ago and they said it was due to my age, but they were testing me for 20 years before that due to...

My hubby has type 2 diabetes and a lot of other medical problems including AS, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis and a very rare form of skin cancer.Despite being on 3 diff types of diabetes medication, they cannot get his diabetes under virtual control. He is supposed to go into hospital next week...