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He is controlling his blood sugar through oral medication and last reading was a normal (for him) 8-ish. His bloods don't fluctuate much from day to day. It's really bad that I had to read the antibiotics leaflet to know that dad has to stop taking 'Slimvastatin', she didn't even tell us this...

Hi all, Managed to get dad into the doctors today, had a battle with the surgery to actually get him in! The so-called diabetic nurse just looked at it and called the doctor in. Doctor didnt even look for 5 seconds and went to give him penicillin (which he is allergic to). Dressed it and said...

Hi, My dad is a type II diabetic, not from being overweight (he's tall and slim). Today he woke up to find this huge blister on his foot... He has now noticed that his other ankle where he had a severe burn, 3 years ago has started to form a red area which is very painful... looks like a...

My father has Type 2 diabetes and recently saw this forum about low-carbs. He has only been doing this since Tuesday and his blood sugar has dropped dramatically! Normally he is averaging 11+'s on a morning but since doing this he was 7.5 on Weds and 7 today! :clap: He used to eat bread daily...

Hello :wave: My father was diagnosed type 2 diabetic 2 years ago. He is not over-weight, far from it. He is on one metformin, one glicloslide & one pioglitazone in the morning, afternoon is one glicloslide and evening it is one metformin and one cholestrol tablet. His blood sugars have...

Hi, Im new to all this but i was looking for some advice for my father. He is 52 years old and has recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He is not overweight he is average weight for his height (6ft). He has been given tablets by his doctor to try and control the sugar in his blood - but...