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    phenindione anticoagulants and type 2.

    Sue, I shall print them off and add them below, thanks for looking. right here they are according to Cugila who found them for me these are ok with Warfarin, I dont know about Phenindione I havent had anymore replies since yesterday. Metformin Slow Release. Bolamyn Slow Release. Glucophage...
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    metformin

    cugila thanks for that by the way I dont take warfarin, I take a more agressive anticoagulant I worked out severely allergic to warfarin which incidentially is known as (maravan) not dindevan or phenindione which is what I take now. I will however go to the hospital diabeties clinic which...
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    metformin

    cugila, I take oral anticoagulants to thin my blood down so this limits the drugs I can take which dont make me bleed to death. metformin a gliclazide were the only two that were safe options without going over to insulin which is also safe. I also take lots of other medication for pain, I...
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    I am designing new diabetic devices! Please reply, thank you

    if it has a battery that charges by solar power that would be cool to, Im fed up batteries failing right when I need them. no coded chip for blood test strips would be good to. problem is there are plenty of blood glucose meters about and some of them cheap to. I dont suppose you could make a...
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    metformin

    I have been advised by my GP that my type 2 is getting worse and recently prescribed metformin, which made me vomit within 4 hours and diaroea followed for the next 6 hours, I am now told by the Gp that there are no more oral options available and I will have to go on to insulin. my father had...
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    Chips

    if I eat a chip butty now i will suffer for it in three weeks time when my sugars shoot up-always a delayed action but I always suffer for it and the suffering is usually loss of vision/focus and high b/s for a long period. (Not worth the five mins pleasure). regards nigel.
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    Rich Tea Biscuits

    I used to love biccys in fact I think thats probably why I gained so much weight and ended up type 2 I dont eat biscuits at all now you will live without your rich tea, I just wish I could survive without a ciggy. regards nigel. :oops:
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    The inevitable has happened and I'm worried

    thanks everyone for your advice, I have significantly reducerd my carb intake obviously any kind of refined sugar is a no-no for a start, I have had to look very carefully at food labeling and in the two years since I started gliclazide I have dropped five stone in weight from 23 stone to 19...
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    The inevitable has happened and I'm worried

    Hi, I'm a newbie on here and I am type 2 diabetic. My name is Nigel. I am 44 yrs old. i have been type 2 for two years taking oral Gliclazide 80mg twice a day, I monitor my sugars myself because I take a lot of other medication and in the last two month I have not acheived a lower reading than...