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Hi, I've noticed since being on Gliclazide for a few weeks, I'm experiencing feelings of slight anxiety, weak legs and just generally not feeling quite right.. much like I do when I'm low... However I'm feeling like this for most of the day now including when my reading was 14.6!! I really...

Hi, I've just started on Gliclazide, and on the first day my sugar went down to 3.6 where I had jelly legs and my hands were shaky. It happened the same again today. Is anyone else on the same drug? What's your 'number' where you feel the first effects of a hypo? What do you drink or eat to get...

Has anyone had a reaction to Linagliptin? In particular a rash?

Hi all, I'm just wondering what is the biggest amount of Metformin SR a person can have? I'm on 4 a day and my last 2 results have been 64, and 62. My doctor mentioned taking another tablet, which I think is too much.. which other medications are others taking alongside Metformin SR? I want to...

Hi, started peri menopause 2 yrs ago. Since then, I've put on 2 stone and more recently I've been struggling with high blood sugar. I've had the HBa1c done this week and I've gone up from 30's to 41 is .. To 65mmol! The doc wants to retest in 8 weeks in case it's a blip.. However, my cousins...

Hi! I have wanted to do the Newcastle Diet for almost a year now! After seeing my GP.. who referred me to the Diabetic consultant.. who referred me to the dietician.. I have FINALLY started! I am doing my own version.. not far from the original... 3 shakes a day.. salad, veg and fruit. It...

Has anyone tried XLS MEDICAL to lose weight/reduce sugar levels?

i know there are a few threads about the ND, but there are so many, i am making my eyes go fuzzy with all the scrolling! lol Is the ND just Shakes, Soups and Bars? i know i can cope with it on the shakes and bars, but not the soups or any other hot food! What do i say to my GP? i have printed...

hi, could anyone give me a link for the Newcastle diet please? not sure where to find it to buy it! thank you in advance :-)

is it possible to have these on the LCHF? i know they are lower carb than normal potatoes, but are they low enough for the LCHF diet?! i would like to try them out as chips, so i can have them with fish :) also, if im out and about, and back home late etc, or at the seaside.. what is best to...

i keep reading about people lowering their carb intake etc, but ive never seen anything about how much carbs we should be consuming... what should i look for on the labels while im out shopping? should i look for carbs per 100g? or how many carbs in the portion that is recommended on their...

hi, can diabetics have Alpen no added sugar muesli? Or is all muesli out of bounds? type 2, on metformin. thanks

the doc put me on Metformin last week.. i thought he said one tablet (500mg) once a day with evening meal.. but the packet says THREE at the same time once a day!! is this normal?! does anyone else have 3 tabs? (1500mg) a day in one go?! it seems alot to take in one go! and they are like...

hi, i have just been put on Metformin after 7 yrs of diet and exercise only.. my question is.. : is it now possible to go too low now? i remember a few years ago, that my GP said that as i was not on any meds, that i cannot go too low, and get in a coma or die etc.. now im on metformin.. does...

i would love to know how FRANKS diabetic ice cream, can even be allowed to call it diabetic ice cream!! it has 13.8g of sugar in every 100g! that sounds alot to me! im not great at this diabetic thing.. but this baffles me!!!!

Hi all, i have recently been getting rando, pins and needles in my left foot.. always my small toe, and the one next to it sometimes. i dont know if this could be diabetes related or not.. im type 2, on no meds. any ideas?!! Kaz :-)

i am type 2, diet controlled. for the last 10 or 11 days i have had a headache daily. on and off with help from ibuprofen and migraleve.. not sever headaches, just there.. anyways, i have also noticed that my sugar levels have been high, on average 11 ish. for example today, i had some chips...

i went to the gym today, and after 10 mins warm up on recumbant bike and half an hour on the cross trainer, i started feeling wobbly legs, shaky, exhausted, a little faint etc. i checked my blood sugar, and it said 2.9. i dont take any medication for my T2. i had a banana about an hour and qtr...