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I am resigning as a mod once I finish this post Ill be sending a pm to benedict to be removed. I dont think I will ever be back to post in this forum, I took on the job as I wanted to help,as so many members have helped me, but with recent events I feel completely out of my depth, I have been...

I successfully stopped smoking for about 3 months then started again when i was quite stressed and have been smoking on and off for the last 3 months, however I have not had a smoke for nearly 2 weeks now and im determined to stop for good this time and tips or advice would be greatly received.

I searched the forum but could find any info on this drug. Is anybody else taking this and how has it worked for you? I started taking 5mg per day but its causing me alot of hypos. what im most concerned about is weight gain by having to comsume extra carbs to treat frequent hypos, has anybody...

without going into too much detail I had an appointment with my diabetic specailist gp to change my meds as metformin was has bad side affects, the doctor gave me saxagliptin 5mg 1 per day. anyway this is the bit that confused me he said if I lost 2 stone in weight im 2 stone overweight :oops...

did anybody see the report last night on the news about being charged for visits to your gp. unfortunatly I only heard the headline but didnt get to hear the whole news story. it was on the local northern ireland news so maybe people in england wont have heard anything about it.

ok to cut a long story short I have not been ill and my fasting bg is 6 which is good but everytime i eat now my bg is rising to about 10 even when its a low carb meal, but is is going back down to about 6 after about 3 hours. as well as the spike in bgs im getting ketones about 30 mins after...

does anybody know the name of the urine test strips that test for gluocose I wanted to look for them on ebat but dont know whay they are called. I want them to test fizzy drinks when im out to make sure they are diet.

just wondered i have been type 2 for about 10 months. when i was diagnosed I had an appointment at the clinic within a few weeks of diagnosis. this followed up by another appointment 3 months later as i was newly diagnosed i was told I owuld have another appointment 6 months later which would be...

does anybody know if lactic acidosis cause elevated bg levels? I feel sick and im really cold and have pains in my side and stomache. I checked my Bg and its only 5 so I thought it cant be lactic acidosis as I thought I read somewhere that it causes elevated bg levels. I dont want to go to the...

I have had pain in my shoulder for the last 11 months, sometimes its very severe some days its not there at all. I went to the doctor who gave me antiflammatry tablets thats caused me to have a asthma attack i went back to the doctor and he said to make an appointment with the gp in the surgery...

I seen soya flour in holland and barrett today I checked the carb contnet and its similar to ground almonds was thinking of getting some of this to bake with instead of ground almonds has anybody else tryed this if so what type of affects did it have on your bg?

ok might soud like a stupid question but is calorie counting the best way forward for weight loss? I have tryed a calorie counting diet restricting to 1200 per day and lost about 1 pound in 2 weeks :shock: however I tryed low carbing by which I mean reduced carb I still eat carbs just restrict...

ok here goes as per my last post I have had a large rise im my bg in the last week or so that has came about suddenly. so on friday I phoned the practice nurse who phoned me back after speaking with so called diabetic doctor who said I need to tighten up my diet and excercise more. well I have a...

ok here goes I have diabetes type2 controlled by diet and excercise for less than 6 months and im quite concered about my bg. for the last week it has has been consistanly between 11 to 15. so today I phoned the practice nurse at my doctors surgery she said she would speak to the diabetic...

what do a diabetic ulcer look like. I have 2 small sores on the top my foot have been there for about a month and are getting worse. they nearly look like have I bitten or somthing but they are very red and had a dot in the centre, I just wondered if anybody could describe what one looks like...

ok before I start this post I must state I do not want to start an arguement this is a genuine question. Ok I see much debate about gps not prescribing test strips and patients then buy the strips at there own cost. I have been prescribed strips im type 2 diagnosed a few months ago, I will only...

Has anybody tryed these weightloss tablets my gp prescribed them for me and im very unsure about taking them.

Ok I have stopped smoking for a week now which has been really difficult for me I smoked 40 per day. anyway in that week I have managed to gain 6 pounds :oops: :shock: :cry: I feel like just starting smoking again!! I was already 1 stone overweight and I have my first appointment at the...

I have read many articles that say up to 10% of type2 diabetics are wrongly diagnosed and infact have type 1.5 LADA. so my question is how many people can say 100% definatitly that they know there gp has caried out the blood tests that rule out type 1.5? incidently I asked my gp how he came to...

ok without going into my life story ill try to keep this brief. I have posted on here a few weeks ago when I had a glucose tolerance test which came back with the following baseline 6.2 2 hour after glucose 10.4 ok well phoned docs for results was told I had pre-diabetes or impaired glucose...