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As a grapefruit addict I looked up which statins were grapefruit tolerant and came up with:rosuvastatin pravastatin...

Hi,Paul, After several days of waking in the night to violent shivering (I now put this down to a virus ),I began to feel less grotty. My appetite was still minimal,but my b.g. readings gradually came down though still higher than usual for me 7-8 post prandial. After a fortnight I've managed to...

Thanks for the feedback,Viv. I'm rather leaning towards a virus though temperature only 97.5.No flu injection,just feeling grotty. See you're from Wensleydale, one of my favourite places. I go there and to Swaledale usually 3 times a year.-in fact just come back from Reeth. And yes,I'll try...

I was diagnosed about 20 months ago at 8 and 9. I was lucky as this was a routine screening. no symptoms. Thanks to D.co.uk I controlled my carbs. and before long my readings were down in the 5's, with occasional dips into the 4's or occasional highs in the 6's and 7's. My two HbA1c readings...

Hi,Chrissie, Had mine done a few years ago,although mine were done a few months apart. All these years later everything's fine. I was told that it may return but so far no problems,and the relief from the symptoms made it so worthwhile. Let me put your mind at ease - it is a...

Hi, The green striped symbol indicates that these test strips will not suffer interference from maltose. They are new and will not give different readings from the yellow ones. Cheers

Yes,that's me ,Daisy. Try this;http://www.fatfreekitchen.com/cholesterol/cholesterol-ldl-hdl-ratio.html

hi,Daisy If you google 'www.fat freekitchen.com/cholestrol/cholestrol ldl hdl ratio ' you'll find the information you're after. In a nutshell you should try to achieve a LDL HDL ratio below 3 OR keep the HDL/LDL ratio above 0.3 with the ideal HDL/LDL ratio being above 0.4. At 0.5 (divide your...

I'm confused. How do you get an HbA1c value less than 5 ? Yet markd has a reading of 4.7. Goalposts seem to shift constantly.

Hi Ardbeg A mouth -watering name ! And one of my favourite tipples.At least before I was diagnosed last February. I followed your link and found that apart from some Lowenbrow they were American 'beers';to be avoided if not only for diabetes sake. But it made me...

Diagnosed a week ago and reading all I can,I came across this discussion on meters. Mine is a Accuchek Aviva and the bumpf says it reads in plasma and it goes on to say that "If you've previously used test strips that delivered blood glucose concentrations on whole blood please note that your...