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Before diagnosis one of the main symptoms I really suffered from was blurry eyesight so I visited my husband’s optician who pointed me in the right direction to get the medical help I needed. After diagnosis of diabetes in September 2009 I was fortunate to find this site in October and followed...

Since diagnosis I am nearly always cold and am having great difficulty keeping warm even though I am wearing several layers.I am having to really work at keeping my core temperature high as even when I think I am not really cold my fingers, starting with my middle one, start going white and dead...

Aren't we all on a diet when we just eat what we normally eat? I think it is generally accepted that when you have diabetes you need to take more care over what you eat and so what we eat is not a diet in the conventional and accepted way that people eat to lose weight. Do you also have...

I am pretty ignorant about what happens but had thought that the body would be using up fat stores which are already there and that could be a good thing. :? Now I don’t know what to think as someone else said it had messed up their numbers in some way. This made me think about my numbers in...

I have read in several posts about the advisability of slowly reducing carbohydrates when trying to reduce bg levels and wonder if there is a significant reason for this. I don’t know how I can do it slowly because when I eat any starchy carbohydrates my bg levels shoot upwards. I no longer eat...

I have been looking at buying test strips and wonder are test strips uniform or are they unique to each manufacturer's monitor? And ditto the lancets? :? Thank you

Hi, I was diagnosed just about 6 weeks ago with Type 2 with quite high numbers on my glucose intolerance test. I know very little except that I feel rotten! I am waiting to see a consultant at the hospital. GP says they cannot help me as they could make things worse and have referred me to...