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I have been a member for ten years, diet controlled with some success. Now I have breast cancer and am undergoing chemotherapy. The doctors seem very confident that it’s early stage and they can fix it. The chemo includes steroids, and my word, they sent my bloods over 30! Following panicky...

If anyone is interested I have put an almost unused Hypoband onto eBay with a starting price of £50. It is no use to me as I am Type 2, it belongs to my daughter who developed Type 1 steroid induced diabetes, and then simply recovered over the next six months! They said her pancreas had been...

How do people know they have this? Doesn't everyone who is overweight have it? Does it actually do any harm? More than diabetes that is.

In the last two years some terrible life stresses have caused my Type2 to worsen, and although diet controlled for years my doctor wanted me to try Metformin. We started at 500mg slow release, and after three months I was pretty sick and miserable, nevertheless we increased it to 750mg, and...

Has anybody else tried kombucha? Apparently they did a study with diabetic rats and it improved their BG control a lot. I have been drinking kefir and I am sure it has helped me feel generally healthier, so I thought I would move along and make my own kombucha. It is basically well sugared tea...

You are teaching your Grandma to suck eggs, here:)

Honest - Justin Cartwright, and I quote: "In 1960 less than 5% of the population was overweight or obese: now over 60% of adults and 31% of children are officially overweight or obese. Insatiability is a characteristic of our times. It speaks of existential angst and a loss of a moral compass"...

I am buying wisdom liquid stevia products in various flavours, which suit me very well (especially the chocolate and raspberry, and toffee) and do nothing to my BG, although I do not like the stevia sweeteners in pill form, they taste bitter to me. Splenda is fine, although it seems to affect my...

Well, I am not going to be wearing minis or bikinis at my time of life, but this loose skin is really creeping me out! How long does it take to shrink back to size? I thought skin came in one size fits all. How come it fits some places and not others? They say it takes up to two years, but is...

I am Type 2. My sister recently had a OGTT. Her fasting BG was 6.4, and one hour after taking glucose it was 13.8, and at two hours it was 5.6. That seems like she is normal, right? but I am a bit worried about that 13.8 reading. It looks to me as though her Phase 1 insulin response is shot, but...

I just got back from my six monthly appointment with the DN at my practise. I have never actually seen a Doctor there. I saw the practise nurse when I was diagnosed. Thats how insignificant and commonplace Diabetes has become. I have been diagnosed Type 2 for exactly a year, and she would like...

I thought some people may be interested in this new ish therapy that is being developed. It seems more important to Type 1's but a very promising line of research for everyone. Not quite sure how they go about collecting the cells. ttp://www.news-medical.net/news/2011033 ... model.aspx

When I was diagnosed Type2 last January, my only symptom that I noticed was steady inexplicable weight loss. After a stone, I went to the doctor. Initially I followed a low GI diet, and the weight loss continued, another stone came off. With hindsight my BGs were still too high and that may...

Con- I have been diagnosed Type2 for nine months and I am perfectly comfortable on a low carb diet of around 50 gr of carb a day. During the day my BS control is good - by mid morning it is below 6 and after lunch it returns within an hour and a half to the same level. Pro- I have recently...

Here I am with another stupid question. Are we all on plasma based readings now? Apparently thats the new Euro standard, along with the new Hbaic readings to a new base. Do they do it on purpose to keep us baffled, do you suppose? No-one ever says what sort of monitor they use, and I use a whole...

So, who is this Bernstein? Is he any good? Worth reading? Have read Barry Groves (who seems a touch paranoid - but that does not mean he is wrong)and Gary Taubes - and was pleased to get a wonderfully rational scientific explanation from the latter for why a low carb diet works so well for me...

Found this story from last year buried somewhere. The interesting thing about the study is that ALL paticipants followed a diet of unrefined carbohydrates, and the researchers themselves emphasised the safety of a low carb diet. Apologies if this is elsewhere on the forum...

On the subject of low-carb diet for weight loss. Is it better to eat more frequently and avoid sudden spikes in blood glucose, or eat more infrequently so that a larger proportion of the day is spent at a low level of blood glucose? I have a tendency to nibble, and although I am keeping carbs...

I am told this is so common among diabetics some experts consider it a complication of diabetes! I first got this eight years ago, first one side, then the other. Anyone who has suffered from this knows it is almost unbearably painful, especially at night. It has recently recurred (6 months...

The Dietician addressing the newbie group I was referred to quite clearly said that it is progressive. That we will get worse. That testing is pointless, and expensive. That medication is inevitable. Diet and exercise will help but the prognosis is inevitable deterioration. Other information I...