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Peripheral Neuropathy is damaged to the nerve endings. You do not have to have any damage of any sort to the outside of your feet to have it. In fact, you don't even have to have diabetes to have it! I have had it for over ten years and have only had diabetes for 6 years! Mine came from damaged...

I didn't do mine till after a shower this morning and got the best 1st reading in ages! 5.3. I'm normally in the 6's an 7's. But can anyone answer this for me: If I go to bed with a reading of around 7.5 - 8.5, I will be higher in the morning! If I go to bed with a reading of 15.4 or some other...

I was told exactly the same as you over 6 years ago!! Thankfully we have a different DN at our surgery now. I still had to fight to get my strips though! I hope you haven't ended up with my old DN!!! Not called Sam by any chance is she??

Do these rules only apply if you are on insulin?? I'm not, but surely a hypo is a hypo whether you are on insulin or not! I'm having a battle with my DN and my doctor to get enough test strips. They will only give me 50 per month and that is being revised to one every two months in October...

My eldest brother and myself took after my Dad in being brown haired and brown eyed. My second brother and both of my sisters took after my mum - light hair and blue/gray eyes. My eldest brother became T1 in his mid 30's (did not look after himself and had both legs amputated and passed away...

I read a report a while ago that stated that cholesterol levels under 4 are as dangerous as those over 6! My cholesterol went DOWN (to 5.01) when I stopped the statins as did my HbA1c.(which is now 34 and I'm chuffed, as my worst was 82).

I was on Atorvastatin and when I went for my appointment with the DN, I told her that I was not going to take them anymore as I don't believe in all this cholesterol rubbish! She tried and tried to make me take them but I still said no! When I had my next appointment, 6 months later, my...

Type one's can eat anything. They just have to adjust their insulin. I'm type 2 and when I was last in hospital (just before christmas) I would have gladly ordered a turkey salad but it was not on offer on any of the menu's throughout the week.

Most of the "choices" were completely inedible when I was last in hospital. I'm not a fussy eater, but when you are offerd food of any kind you at least expect it to be cooked! I was served a jacket potato that must have been in the oven for all of 5 minutes. It was rock hard and cold. You don't...

I was in hospital last June and found the food disgusting!! It was mince almost every day, just dressed up as something different from the day before!! (Shepherds pie- Cottage pie- Spag bol- etc) There was no carb or sugar information at all. I am trying my best to keep LCHF and my last Hba1c...

Hi everyone, just as a bit of information.......I have a Tee2 meter, given to me by my DN. I found that I could get on for free from Spirit Heath (online). Also for free, from the same people, you can get batteries for the meter, a usb lead to download your info and see it as graphs, and a CD...

I'm T2 and have been prescribed 100 strips per month for the past 3 years. I take gliclazide and sitagliptin also 1000 mg slow release Metformin morning and evening. My so called diabetes nurse, ( who does not seem to know much about diabetes) has now told me that I have no need to test as I...

Hi Danielle, I am just recovering from uro-sepsis (for the third time in 4 months) due to a urine infection. I don't get any symptoms, so I asked if I could have some test strips to do a dip test every few days, but my GP refused saying they were too expensive!! I bought a tub of 100 on Amazon...

Hi, My blood tests came back as 'normal'. I have stopped taking the statins as I don't think they are helping me. My GP was very keen for me to keep taking them "even if you take one every other day" she said! Do they take a while to get out of your system I wonder??? I didn't tell her that I...

I woke up at 6.50 this morning and was 4.4. Went back to sleep. Woke again at 9.10am (had a very late night!) and was 4.8 !! Why the heck had it gone up???

Maybe this is why, when I was rushed to hospital just before christmas with urosepsis (caused by an undetected UTI that went to my kidneys and beyond) the doctors took me off statins! They also stopped my Metformin! I was never told why or indeed if I should start taking them again once...

Taking a blood reading after just one hour will not give you a correct reading. You need to wait for two hours as your glucose will still be on the rise.

Hi, I was recently taken into hospital by ambulance suffering from what turned out to be urinary sepsis! I had been unable to keep anything down for a couple of days before being admitted and therefore had none of my meds in my system by then. (btw I am t2 well controlled on 1000mg metformin...

Thanks for all your help Nosher8355! I will do my best but as for cheese.....YUCK YUCK YUCK! don't even like touching the stuff. Have been using butter this past week, so will stay with it now. Don't use milk at all (another thing I can't stand! I blame school milk being kept by the...

Oh Crikie!! I can't eat full fat!! I have eaten low fat everything for the past thirty years as fatty stuff makes me throw up! I have to be careful what I say to them as I am waiting for my knee replacement and they might cancel it again! I've got my pre op assessment on Tuesday. By the way...my...