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My annual review was this morning and I had been given one of the new container kits for my customary urine sample. As I wasn't certain how to use it I went on line and ended up on the website of Elkay the suppliers. There weren't any instructions but there was a price list and believe it or...

Hello I recently had a routine blood test and according to the nurse everything was OK as usual. I usually have an HbA1c about 7.0 and it has been for years. The nurse asked if I’d had any hypos recently and when I said no she asked if I’d ever had one or if I would recognise one. When I...

Beginning to see corn-on-the-cob on sale. Is it a vegetable to be treated like potato or is it OK from a BG point of view because it is supposed to be slow to digest or what? Alan

I’ve only started testing myself in the past 3 or 4 months and it has become very obvious I have been having low BG levels for many years..the low 2’s regularly without knowing it. I don’t get any feelings of being unwell except recently my vision has started to be affected at very low levels...

I have already posted about my getting a stomach bug and the situation I got into by continuing to take my meds. I thought the case was closed because everything is now back to normal however I went to the opticians and had an eye test yesterday because my eyes seemed to have changed. I was...

Hi I’ve been Type 2 since 1986 and I am 69. I have been plodding along seeing my local surgery every 6 months and having an annual blood test which has always been said to be perfect and my condition very well controlled with the 3 – 25mg Glipizide and 3 – 500mg Metformin per day that I had...

Hello I’ve just joined and apologies if this subject has been dealt with elsewhere but I couldn’t find anything. I’ve been sailing through all my blood tests and managing on pills since 1986. All the results of my last tests were OK inc B12" but FBC showed a low iron count of 18 (range 14...