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For example, if one day you have breakfast at 9.00 am and the next at 10.30 am, the next at 9.45am etc... How important is it to eat on time? Do you think an hour or so either side will make too much of a difference when trying to control type 2 diabetes? Thank you Molly

Thank you so much for your reply hanadr - yes he is type 2. We have also been told that he needs a slow reduction in insulin... he has been given around 2-3 months at these levels. Can insulin be reduced quicker than this?

My brother is slowly reducing his insulin (novomix) from 10 to 8 in the morning and from 5 to 4 in the evening. In addition he has just started taking metformin (300mgs twice daily) as he is trying to come off the insulin. He started this new regime 4 days ago (on the doctors advice). With the...

We are finding our food choices very limiting can anyone offer any tasty meal solutions please? At the moment we are stocked up on salad and veg... For my brother, two pieces of wholemeal bread with a meat/fish and salad filling works well as it does with a small portion of rice or potatoes...

Thank you for your warm welcomes... and thank you Ken, WOW that is impressive! I will seriously look into it... we could all do with loosing some weight too... is your diet filling? My brother has a ravenous appetite :(

Hi Treecreeper, it is a bit of a minefield but I have to say, I would probably take your GP's advice and take advantage of the statins. I am mindful about scaring people and I am so sorry if I do, so I will be as brief as I can... Three weeks ago my brother was diagnosed with diabetes and is...

Hello and what a really great and supportive forum. I have been coming here for about a month now, since my brother was diagnosed as type2 and decided to join. Thank you so much for all your rational and very sensible support - it is so, so helpful to me and in turn I hope, helpful for him...