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Advice if anyone can help. Picked up Novorapid and Levemir from pharmacy last Monday. Discovered tonight the never made it as far as my fridge, so now have approx 4 days of each left. Needless to say OH and myself have searched everywhere they could have been put without success. My surgery...

Hi All Wondering if anyone can advise please - have literally, this morning, posted a renewal for my 3 year licence to DVLA. Did fill in the form online a couple of weeks ago (literally 90 days before it ran out) but then received the forms in the post at the weekend, including a new photocard...

Hi - I wonder if anyone can throw some light for me please. Have been diagnosed diabetic since 1999, so not new to the disease, but don't fly very often and have only flown once before since being on insulin (a BA Flight to Schipol and back on business a couple of years ago, where everything...

Hi All Am after some thoughts and a bit of advice. I am due gallstone surgery next Wednesday. At my pre-op assessment this morning the nurse, very matter of factly, told me that they would 'more than likely' put me on an insulin pump for the duration of my stay, even though my sugars are pretty...

Have been diabetic for almost 20 years, originally Metformin (took longer than it should to diagnose so diet only wasn't an option), which was effective on its own for over eight years, then adding various other oral meds. Had a heart attack 8 years ago, the long recovery didn't help the...

Hi - have just recently been prescribed the above to use in conjunction with Metformin, Novorapid and Levemir. I understand the basic principles of this, but am wondering how long after starting treatment I should notice any benefits as, to be honest, I am almost a week in and all it has done...

Hi All Havent been around for a while - feeling really sorry for myself over the summer - seemed no matter what I did my weight was creeping upward. I am almost back at the heaviest weight I have ever been (about 6 years after I was diagnosed, and 6 months after a heart attack 5 years ago :( )...

Hi All Has anyone tried any of the 'Instant Mashed Potato' substitutes that are available on various sites? I'm fairly new to low-carbing, and my other half is really supportive, but am struggling with this one because the only way I can stomach using mashed cauli instead is using cheese -...

Have had 'low(ish) carbing' suggested by my diabetes team at the hospital, but as this is so alien to all advice I have been given over the last decade, am not quite sure where to start, and what is what!!! Have been referred for a dietician appt but this wont be for at least another month. SO...

Really don't know what the right question is anymore, or who to ask :cry: Was switched to insulin about 2 months ago now, since when I have been struggling to get levels stable again. Over the last couple of weeks seem to have, finally, started to get them levelling out, but now have another...

Dear all - not been around for a long time, but my diabetes has progressed (I know I shouldn't blame myself as it's degenerative so thats not a problem) and I seem to be having some problems adjusting to insulin which my diabetic nurse, although sympathetic, doesn't seem to understand at all, so...

I wonder if anyone can help me - at present am on a regime of Byetta, Met and Glic for my diabetes and a host of other stuff for a heart condition!!!! I know next clinic visit they want to switch me to insulin - I have lost approx 15% of my body weight on Byetta and really do not want to put it...

I'm type II and have been for about 14 years - initially diet, then Met, then a mixture of various orals until changing the Byetta, Met and Glic approx 2 and a half years ago. I also had a heart attack 3 years ago so take various medications resulting from that too!! Over the last year my...

Probably asking this in the wrong part of the forum, or just not looking hard enough for the answer but hope someone can help. Up til now my doctor has always been good about supplying test strips, but at the moment I am testing more than usual due to a change in meds and a change of diet and I...

My diabetic consultant would like to try me on Byetta but has his hands tied by a PCT (BUcks) that will not allow it. Someone said something to me earlier that made me think. Does anyone think it might work if I were to get my doctor to refer me 'out of area' (ie nine miles away to a hospital...

If you do then I desperately want to hear from you. I have been diabetic for 9 years, first on diet alone, now on an oral combination of Avandamet and Gliclazide, but since a heart attack at Xmas and the cardiac doctors 'playing around' with all my meds, my control has got steadily worse. My...

I wonder if anyone has - I am in the unfortunate position that this is the avenue I am about to embark on, and so far, it is a total minefield as to how you go about doing this effectively. Any suggestions would be welcomed. thanks all Trulee