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Hi, Can anyone help please , I have been type 2 for the past 2 years , I have tried to keep on top of it and until now have got away without taking meds , just lately I have been feeling really poorly and having loads of bad pains in joints and also a lot of swelling in joints . Hauled myself...

Hi and thanks to those of you who have answered my post. When I was first diagnosed my HbA1c was 11.4 Back last year at the first 6 months check it had come down to 6.8 . The GP said my levels were pretty good, with no meds at all I was getting this . Although the doctor was annoyed when I...

I have been diagnosed since April with type 2 and over Christmas I tested my sugar level and found it had gone up from normally being around 7 to 9 up to 31.5 and yet I never felt any different . my HCP told me when I was first diagnosed if my level went up over 24 I would be in hospital. I am...

Thank you for your reply. It is so unfair to be kept in the dark by GP's when you put your faith in them. I will never trust another doctor as long as I live after this , I will be asking for a second opinion on the slightest thing from now on . Denise

Hi all, I have been advised to see a lawyer as I have been told I have a case for medical neglect since being told I am diabetic type 2 recently by A&E . When I went to my doctor 4 days later she asked me if I had ever had a sugar test before, I said I thought not as no one had ever...

Re: Please can someone help with confused newly diagnosed ty Hi Hanna, Lovely to hear from you , yes my dear little dogs are so happy to go out every day, the younger one Chokky has a ligament damage in his left back leg so the vet said rest him, Ok so I rested him and now he is so fat with all...

Re: Please can someone help with confused newly diagnosed ty Hi Guys , Many thanks for the advice and encouragement , I feel quite good at the moment except for blurred vision & aching legs (probably not using them enough as sit at the coputer most of the day) but I am taking a 30 minute brisk...

Hi All, Please could someone help me , I am shopping for my groceries and trying to work out what I can and cannot eat, having been diagnosed with type 2 and then a week later with high cholesterol also. I do not understand the labels on food, what is the maximum numbers to look out for in...

Hi George, You sound like a real character. How on earth do you keep your cholesterol down without statins , my doctor told me I have to take them ( I am newly diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes & high cholesterol 7.9 ) he said if I don't take them I run the risk of heart disease and that heart...

Hi Cocacola, Thank you for the welcome. I didn't expect anyone to be up this late at night LOL No I don't have a meter yet but the nurse said they don't usually give them out as people tend to go crazy using them all the time , I thought at the time that is daft as how am I going to know if...

Hi Everyone, I have just been diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes , my head is all over the place , I had gone to the doctors on Friday and was just checking up why I had a numbness in my right hand and a very severe frontal headache when the doctor told me it was a migraine, I thought yes ok and...

Dear Ellen, I am so dreadfully sorry for your loss, only someone who has lost a loved one will know how you are feeling right now. I lost my son 7 years ago he was just 6 years and 6 months old and it feels like it was just yesterday. The broken heart will never heal but time will help to...