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    Retinopathy panic

    Hi, Susan here, I've been a diabetic since the age of 10yrs and I'm now 63 yrs, so quite a long time. I've been having laser treatment on my eyes since 1976, it saves my eyesight up until now, I 9nly see colours out of my right eye and my left eye is virtually gone, but I manage, I won't let it...
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    Anyone with other conditions as well as Diabetes?

    I've been T1d for 53 years, now on a pump and just getting used to it but it's fantastic. I have had retinopathy since 1976, macula degeneration,I've now been told I have Retinitis Pigmentosis which also i am told eats away at your retina. UnderactivThyroud, CHD, (coronaty heart disease) PBC (...
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    Fathead sausage rolls

    Does anyone have the same problems as me, or is it because I'm a relative newcomer to the world of computers. Everytime I try to download a recipe book I enter my email address and then it comes up in red PLEASE ENTER A VALID EMAIL ADDRESS, ok fair enough but really the problem is, they've just...
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    So beans don't require insulin?

    I'm type 1 now 9n a pump and baked beans do raise my BG , they are much too sweet, why do they put sugar in a savoury food item, even the sugar free have sweetener in them WHY, all this about sugar taking the acidity out of tomatoes, 8ts a lad of rubbish to me
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    Fake hypos and highs?

    I'm exactly the same, I've been type 1 for 52 yrs
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    Chutneys?

    Hi Welsh man 1952, couldn't you just make enough for the Christmas holidays and use sweetener, I'm about to use some green tomatoes that haven't quite started to ripen to make some chutney and that's what I'm going to try to do, if it doesn't, lesson learnt, but I'm hoping it does work. Merry...
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    Slimming world

    Type 1 been doing slimming world since January and lost over 1 1/2 stone, going onto a pump on November 29 2016 any good advice to help keep the weight off and to reduce even further?