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You were doing great until I read carb addict :roll: yes its the pasta rice , potatoes and bread that are high in carbs, the cakes, biscuits high sugar ribena and fizzy drinks high in sugar. If you could cut right down and cut out the bread, cakes and biscuits, especially the sugar ribena...

The amount of eggs on this diet you wont need under pants and make sure you don't have a cholesteral due. The first day is just egg 3 eggs breakfast, 3 eggs lunch 3 eggs dinner. If it takes off this diet then buy shares in eggs!! :crazy:

One of the major side effects of satins is on the muscles and your heart is a muscle. Personally I am against satins and believe that they can in fact do more harm then good. But this is my own opinion. I stop taking them when I was getting cramp and it then stopped. I also looked on Google...

Thanks for your reply. My friend had the nurse come round and has told her to only do her BS when she gets up before her morning tea and breakfast she was 12.6. They have increased her insulin to 18mg. The nurse said the strips were expensive and only to use them then and not to test any...

I am really worried for my friend she was diagnosed as type 2 and been that for 20 years but never given much information on diabetics. She takes sugar in her tea and has quite a few cups during the day. Her early morning used to be 9 which is high but now its in the 20 which is miles to high...

Thanks I have looked again and your story is really inspiring I will try and direct my brother to read it when I go to visit him as he lives inWales and myself in the Midlands All the best Sue :)

My brother who is also diabetic (myself as well) has a large cancerous tumour in his liver which is inoperable and once he gets the results of his biopsy they will start chemo but not just being worried about his liver how will this effect his diabetis? I can recall Ken I think reading his...

Thank you every one for your replies. I am not worried now as I was confused and didn't understand whether you could get the correct results as all my previous test were fasting and since its just been a year since I was diagnosed I haven't yet been asked to do a non-fasting one, and thought...

I have received my appointment to see the DN nurse (my 6 months review) and was asked to make an appt to have my Blood Test done as a non-fasting one. When I phoned up to make the appt I queried this and the reception told me that they sometimes do this but this doesn't seem right to me. :? I...

Its true once you are told you are diabetic and the food that you took for granted suddenly you become more hungrily for. I used to go shopping and seeing the cakes and chocolate never really bothered me before but now being told I am diabetic it does. Cakes never really bothered me could take...

Hi I have been feeling down like you but have just remembered the reason that I am doing what I am doing I don't want to take more metformin at the moment I take 2x500 metformin one in the morning and one in the evening. I was diagnosed in March last year and yes was very confused but came on...

Blood pressure is a silent killer - sorry - we can have a very healthy life go running eat good and still get high blood pressure. I used to up until last July drive hour and half to hour and three quarter to work and back that is stressful on its own lwt alone then do a days work and then had...

I am preparing myself/getting ready to pack in smoking and one of the big things is having a ciggy after a meal so I am not having a ciggy after a meal and leave it for some time. I am trying not to have a ciggy when I normally do the main one is when I get up and once I have over come that one...

I had lazer treatment on the 4th Jan this year. I was diagnosed diabetic type 2 March last year and since being diagnosed I have worked had to keep my BS down and to begin with tested every time I eat and my BS varies from 5.7 to 6.4. I had my eyes checked last July and was recalled as they...

The pump drinks like lemonade and coke etc are a sugary solotion that is made up and then pumped through with the gas added I know this for a fact for the lemonade and that they have are made from a sugary solution as before being diabetic I have had it when the pump has been at the end and it...

Thank you all for your comments but my husband would never go to a counselor. I have got things off my chest and this has made me feel a bit better the worst is that i couldn't cry but have now had a good cry and feel better for it. Hopefully I will have some good news tomorrow and I know that...

Just before Christmas it hit home hard what being a diabetic is all about. Since then I have got more and more depressed about it all. I even get depressed coming on site and reading the problems everyone has and haven't been coming onto the site much at all as I just couldn't face it. There...

Whilst reading this I too was going to say its cheaper for us to have the stips and keep control then it is for the resultant non testing and cost to the NHS. I am a smoker however but have cut down and roll my own. I will be 62 in May and when I first started to smoke when I was 14 there...

'you will find a lot said on this forum about people being stopped having their testing strips on prescription. I was told that I didn't need to test by my doctor and the DN who said the same did seem a bit coy when she said it. I said to them how on earth am I going to know what food I react...

Congraulations on your health improvement. :D It was really nice reading this that your health has improved due to your controlling/taking metformin you diabetics. Hope it continues for you and that there are even more improvements. Sue :D