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I am having major problems with the DVLA at the moment, I medically surrendered my driving license about 5 years ago because I wasn't driving and to be honest I was finding the Medical Section a major pain to deal with. My circumstances have changed and despite being on Insulin now I need to...

I have had pretty bad problems with Hyperglycaemia ever since I was diagnosed 2 years ago, constant med changes etc that left me feeling **** and worse until I finally bit the bullet about 3 months ago and switched to Insulin injections (Basal Bolus) of Levemir and Novo Rapid and quite frankly I...

Could anyone answer a quick question re: Lancet needles as I was talking to one of my friends husbands last night who is a type 1 diabetic and he asked me what lancet needles I was using and was a bit appalled when I said the the ones that came with the Freestyle meter and I need to ask for some...

Has anyone else had problems with Glicazide, the diabetes nurse practitioner put me on it about 4 weeks ago initially because the dose of metformin I was on wasn't controlling my blood sugar and told me to take 80mg twice a day which she increased about 2 weeks ago to 160mg twice a day in...

I was diagnosed as type 2 diabetic about 5 weeks ago and prescribed 500mg Metformin twice a day and that was it as thanks to "short staffing" I had to wait a month for an appointment to see the diabetes nurse at my GP and when I arrived at the appointment she was off sick and another nurse stood...