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I have been with my medical practice for 3 years. I am 89 years old, type 2 with no complications after 20 years. I am content with slow release Metformin and one tablet Gliclazide taken before breakfast. The nurse bellowed after me as I left my last visit, "Next time, I 'll be taking away the...

I've come to this conversation on binge eating rather late but have to say it's encouraging to visualise people all around the country trying, and sometimes failing, to keep on an even keel with their own brand of diabetes? I am elderly and live alone and today a neighbour I do not know well...

This is interesting. I am 88 years old and have had T2 for 20 years. Fortunately I have always loved exercise and my legs are still strong after being a member of a walking group for many years. However, age takes its toll and I now love staying in bed in the mornings(!) so another challenge...

Must my doctor agree if I ask for a reduction in Metformin?

I have 18 years' experience of T2 and have no complications. It does seem important to me to eat breakfast after a night without food. Try an egg (protein and filling) with a modest piece of toast, bacon or some other form of protein. Your lunch of cod sounds fine but I eat half a baked potato...

Butter never "went away" in my case and I am nearly 88 years old and of normal weight. The media overcomplicate things. Eating reasonable amounts of nutritious food and, above all, keeping moving are the important matters. Just reading some of these daft warnings is enough to worry one to...

Les.ball. Thanks so much for your common sense and humerous letter. I am in my eighties and, after reading some of the posts over the last few weeks just became worried that I had been getting it all wrong! After 18 years of T2 I have no complications and am lucky enough to have strong legs so...

Thank you Mark and Finsky for your opinions. Yes, I have wondered for a while if I "eat to my medications" as you put it. I do enjoy eating more when my medication is increased, it's as though I have been given permission to indulge a little. Until I started reading this forum I didn't realise...

I am elderly and have had T2 for 18 years. I have followed the accepted advice of the era, eating every 4 hours during the day. If I don't do this my sugar levels go unpleasantly low and I feel awful until I eat something. Fortunately I have been retired for all of this time so have done lots...

Crackers with peanut butter- lovely and effective!

Presumably those who use test strips several times a day have to buy most of them from a chemist which is too expensive for me, a senior citizen. I am charged £18 plus for 50 strips if I want extra. My GP gives me 50 strips every other month.

When I was diagnosed with T2 seventeen years ago, the usual advice was to have meals consisting of one third carbs, one third protein and one third vegetables and this worked well with me while I took plenty of exercise. Now elderly and taking less exercise, though I try to keep up to some...

No one ever mentions other people's reaction to diabetes. Sometimes I detect resentment, presumably if a diabetic person abstains from dessert, they make others feel unnecessarily guilty. I find, even with family, I make more concessions to them than they do to me. Do they fear illness in their...

Reading all this a little late but I was diagnosed with T2 17 years ago and have no complications at the age of 87. ( yes, you do still care (!) but probably more accepting). I have, however, taken it seriously as it was a big shock when I found myself in hospital not realising what I had wrong...

A diabetic nurse said to me that for Type 2 finger pricking sharps, it is acceptable to put them in household rubbish but only in a container with a lid. I find it quite wrong to dispose of any sharps without ensuring that people cannot be scratched by them.

I have always been given to understand that no more than 4 tablets of regular Metformin should be taken each day.

Yes, why have I been taking Metformin, gradually increased from one to three, after meals, for the last 17 years, if it has not helped to keep down my sugar levels? I do lots of walking too which I know is much easier when retired but surely the tablets must be doing something good! I have no...

I'm sitting up in bed at 2am reading this discussion while trying to persuade myself I'm not hungry! T2. I used to take 2 Gliclazide and 2 Metformin each day and only woke up in the night if my BG was lowish, ate a snack and usually went back to sleep. Since moving to a new area 18 months ago...

I would like it if someone in the family occasionally asked how my diabetes is going. It's taken them years to realise that if out for the day, I must know if and at what time a meal is on the horizon! and how about congratulations on keeping up the walking in most weathers! Oh dear, no...