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Cugila - well said. You will feel better now. People threatened by psychology are usually the ones who need it most but my thanks for your advice. End!!!!!!!

Sugarless Sue - I shall 'unbow' for one last message. Both yourself and Cugilla seem to have adopted a proprietorial role to this site and I suspect Cugilla felt threatened when I used the term 'hypothenar'! His(!) response was smart alec even thought I described precisely the position of the...

Sugarless Sue - Cor Blimey! In my original message about finger pricks I did say precisely where the hypothenar eminence is! Read the messages from Cugila aimed at my input and I think you will find that she is a smart alec. Enough said. I will bow out of this discussion.

Cugila - you are the one who should get out more. I don't spend all my day on this Web site as you seem to do. My wife is a Medical Consultant and I am a Clinical Psychologist and we could offer diabetes sufferers some real help and advice and we could do without smart alec comments from folk...

Sugarless Sue - I did repost my message and I say again that smart alec comments on a site like this don't help. Many people are very confused about their diabetes and they need help not smart alecs like Cugila. Taking accurate bloods is a very important thing to be able to do and GP...

Cugila - I was trying to help those folk who have difficulty obtaining blood from their fingers, You will find that the hypothenar eminence gives the same results and bloods are much easier to do. Your smart alec comments about my messages are not very useful but probably allow you to inflate...

What utter nonsense and it helps no-one! This is an important site and could be very helpful to many people particularly the recently diagnosed. Really!

I did say that when you close your hand the little finger rests on your hypothenar eminence! It is a very obvious muscle bulk. I found that I couldn't keep using my left hand fingers to get blood and that is why I switched to my hypothenar eminence. I find it difficult to take blood from my...

I did make checks by pricking both my finger and my hypothenar eminence and I got the same readings. I don't see how it can be possible to keep taking blood from fingers!

I use the Accuchek multiclix thingy. I have now taken about 500 bloods from my left hand. I tried my first three fingers originally but they started not liking it so I changed to my hypothenar eminence. If you close your hand then your little finger will rest on the hypothenar eminence and it...

Coreservers - I'm afraid as a type II diabetic you can never return to a 'normal' diet. It isn't that big a punishment! You just have to be bloody minded and persist. Any diabetic not controlling their blood glucose levels is risking strokes, heart attacks, impotence and amputations. If that...

Coreservers - I think a low carb diet is OK. If you are taking metformin you should not get hypos providing you are not taking other drugs. Weight loss is essential. Fat free diets are a no-no because the vitamins A,D,E and K are fat soluble and you cannot assimilate them if you don't get...

Broads - well found!

Synonym - It was emailed to me by my brother in law who is type 1 and lives in Washington DC. It would seem to have come from the Medical Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism! I hope this helps. My dear lady is a medical doctor and I am going to be more srict with my carbs. It seems to be the...

I am quite appalled by the sheer incompetence of the NHS and their staff when it comes to diabetes. The help I have received was utter nonsense and after I 'failed' the gluocse tolerance test it took 8 months to persuade my GP to let me have Metformin. I should have reported him to the GMC. I...

I am type 2 and my life over the last few years has been chaos. My GP seems to know very little about diabetes and the local hospital diabetic centre staff seem no better. I had feet problems and my GP finally referred me for a glucose tolerance test and I scored 12. He wasn't bothered and...