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HI, I've just seen my cousin who lives in Europe and he got put on Synjardy and that (for him) seems to have helped him lose weight and get his bloody sugars down to almost normal. I've never heard of this drug but he showed me the box and I was just wondering, if anyone here is on it (as it...

Is anyone else feeling really really tired/exhausted in the mornings? I'm wondering if it s the heat, or the fact that I am now on blood thinners, but I've never felt so exhausted and completely unable to get up in the mornings. My blood sugars aren't too bad in the morning, after an hour of...

Hi All, Just thought I'd update you, last week (Sun) I finally got around to asking on here if anyone else had had a 'Pain in right thigh bone/muscle' after months of it only really bothering me at night.... Oh and I should correct that it was actually my left leg... Anyway, long story short, I...

Hi, I've been ignoring a pain in my right leg, middle of my thigh bone now for a month or 2, it doesn't hurt at all until I sit down and then i remember it again, although its only when I sit down to relax at home, so slouching... And oldly it feels cold... Anyone else had pain from their...

Hi All, I've not been around for a while but just had my latest Hb1Ac and it was 54. However I know why that is, I basically have been getting very forgetful and forgetting to take my medicine, logn story while there I noticed that my Serum creatinine was marked up as abnormal with a warning...

Hi All, Just wondering if anyone is doing any clinical trials? I've put myself forward for one (it happened by accident) but I'm thinking I'll go and find out more about it. It was with a company called Synexus. Anyone thinking, on one or done one?

Hi All... I've just recently been to hospital with a simple foot infection that ended up being complicated by turning into Sepsis and well one month on I've just finished a continuing changing regime of antibiotics trying to reduce all my inflammations. While I was in hospital they were...

Hi All, I had a pretty bad bankhol as spent most of it in hospital. I had a foot infection, for which I got antibiotics from my Doctor, all seemed fine, burning pain stopped and foot was beginning to look good day 5 or so days on antibiotics... However I then thought I was having an allergic...

Hi All, I just thought I'd ask if anyone has ever heard of of Metformin being a reason for having a mini-stroke? The reason for asking is a friend of mine took 3 doses of Metformin 500mg over 3 days and then had a mini-stroke, I was unaware of metformin being a stroke risk, I told him I...

Hi All, For about a year now, while in bed, so no weight or pressure, I get a pain on the outside of my left thigh bone, with everything else going on in my life I'd not pain it any attention and then it stuck me, that it hasn't gone away and I should talk to the doctor next time I see them...

Hi All, I've not posted in a while, but thought I'd ask how it was going for people put on Statins. I've been managing to keep my blood sugars roughly under control but as expected my cholesterol has gone up (and I wish I'd taken down the readings at my diabetic check-up the other day). But as...

Hi, Was it me or did I see a new test meter advertised on TV last night, ITV I think, that didn't' involve needles and just involved tapping the meter on some sort of patch on your shoulder?

Hi All, My Doctors are still trying to pin down why I almost passed out a few weeks back. One of the things they've noticed is that I have a resting heart rate of 96. Has anyone else had this sort of thing.

Hi All, Back again for some advice. I went for a walk on Friday evening, stopped to answer my phone and then when I went to start walking again, I'd been standing the whole time, all of a sudden I felt very very faint, and wanting to vomit, and almost passed out. I did eventually manage to get...

Hi All, I've not posted for a little while, but I have a questions over the past 10 days I've been noticing something odd with my eyesight, in that I occasionally see yellow spots (not floaters), and at other times I've noticed in the far corners of my vision (what when I used to have hair)...

Hi All, I heard about this plant extract Garcinia Cambogia over Christmas and was wondering if anyone had tried it? The penny sale is on at Holland and Barrett and I was thinking I might give it a go, as I've put weight on over xmas... I'll be going back to keeping my carbs down starting Jan...

Hi All, A tad confused but also really happy at my progress (thanks to all the good people on here) giving me help and pointing me in the right directions… Basically saw my Dr four months ago where he diagnosed me in May with my HbA1c of 103. He said to come back in 4 months and see how I...

Hi, Just recently diagnosed and going on holiday shortly. I've seen that there's an insurance product offered here on the website, has anyone used it and claimed? Just wondering if they were good? Also I noticed that on getting a quote there was a section to type in a discount code... Anyone...

HI, Just writing as i thought I read somewhere about Dr making mistakes on working out the calculation from switching from regular Metformin to Slow Release Metformin. I was on 3x500 regular metformin but I kept getting crushing chest pains from time to time within 15mins of take a pill. Dr...

Hi, I've only recently been diagnosed a few weeks ago, I've changed my diet and lost 8Kg in 4 weeks and the metformin I think has really been helping and I've been lucky with the side effects, only the occasional stomach, so can't complain. But this week I've noticed that I keep getting a rush...