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    need advice! insulin alone or insulin plus metformin?

    I am type II and was diagnosed four years ago. Firstly on metformin then moved to byetta plus metformin. On byetta successfully for one year, went from 5mcg to 10mcg. Lost weight and HBA1C came down to 6. Travelled to Africa, started being sick after injecting, got worse, GP told me to stop...
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    anyone got insulin success stories please

    I must be a bit dense because I can't seem to find any posts specifically about how insulin changed things for people. I know they'll be on here but not sure which forum to look on. Obviously if I search the word insulin it just tells me it's too common a word :shifty: I am about to go on...
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    Byetta vs insulin and need more info on insulin

    I am type II diagnosed five years ago. Started out on diet only, then metformin which was increased and then metformin and byetta. The first few months with byetta were good. HBA1C went down and lost weight but then it seemed to slow down and stop working. Was put up to 10mcg but just made me...
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    please help

    Hi I am following a sugar detox diet for 14 days. I have been eating omelette for breakfast, a piece of wholegrain bread and cashew butter for midday. Vegetable juice later. Then cottage cheese, tuna, veg and avocado. Then mid pm a sweet potato then in the evening homemade chicken and veg soup...
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    really struggling with byetta and feeling so down

    I was put on byetta 5mcg along with the 500 slow release metformin about a year ago. I felt very sick to start off with but that went away then I went up to a 10mcg pen. I got really really sick on this so went back to the five as I was travelling to Africa. I was in Africa for six weeks and...
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    insulin vs gliclazide?

    I am type II diabetic and I have other health complications unrelated to diabetes. I am forty two. I take metformin 500 slow release twice a day. My blood glucose readings are around 14 no matter how or what I eat. My GP put it up to 750 twice a day but it made no difference whatsoever so I put...
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    confused re low carb or high carb

    I was diagnosed a few years ago and have had lots of problems. I haven't been able to control my type 2 with diet alone (feel like a failure) and have been on metformin. I have just picked up my third lot of antibiotics for my third kidney infection in six weeks. My doctor has also sent me home...
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    Hi newbie here

    Hello, new and overwhelmed. Just wanted to say hi :)
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