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What he said. I have diabetic neurop. I went over on my ankle back in June, it started to hurt, so went to the a&e dept. had an xray.. was told it was only soft tissue damage ( i gave them all the info on my diabetes type 2 etc.. they sent me home and said rest up a cpl of days which i did...

not every day.. but they are now a lot better than they used to be.. high sugar levels is themain reason of charcot foot... kinda thought i was invincible..like a lot of blokes...lol... guess im not... but hey... turning the clock back is impossible... just trying to stop the fingers is hard...

yeah... 10 years ago , I went on the atkins diet... loss loads of weight.. felt a lot better to be honest... then was told i had type 2.... :-( todays..on all my med , previous to this was irregulat taking them...I got fed up if i was honest.. but now.... like clockwork, also watch what i eat on...

well its around sixteen weeks now with leg in plaster and still waiting for the breaks to settle down.There has to be only a 2'c difference in temp in the damaged ankle to the other one before they can operate. I'm told that they will attempt to fuse the leg bones with the ankle structure which...

Neuropathy seems to be pretty easy to diagnose for a trained podiatrist. They can do it from using a tuning fork, to simple prod test with a piece of stiff but flexible plastic. I gathered I had it when I couldn't differentiate between hot and cold water.( I found this out for the very first...

Well my blood sugars on a day to day testing vary now from 6-9.. depending on what I eat/drink. my weight loss is down from 19st-16.5.. but probably on the rise again due to inactivity.(charcot foot only occurs in 2-3% of diabetes patients I'm told. Because your putting all the extra pressure on...

Type 2 was initially diagnosed after early retirement when I was fifty in 2008. Diabetes wasn't said to me as dangerous as it can be then. I was given a few tablets to take, a few changes in diet.. and off you go. Well I was a bit/lot lax at the beginning.. because I really didn't feel ill ...

Not had a problem getting them on prescription so far. 8 years. (that is to say on any meter i have bought/not free ones of which ive never had :-))

Phoned bayer/Ascensia Diabetes Care who sent me a replacement USB next meter which I received the very next morning along with a wall charger and also organised 'the contour next 'one' to be despatched within a cpl of weeks. Apparently they are not on sale in the UK yet. Cant fault the...

cheers. Geoff.

yeah .. visited all of those linke.... just looking for the 'contour next one' meter that is compatible with the smartphone app as well. :-)

Tried to get a free meter on numerous occasions.. never been successful...have applied for one of these yesterday....but wanted one as soon as... just out of hospital yesterday and told to check levels 3/4 times a day.....and my ' usb next' has just packed up today..sods law aint it.. didn't...

Is there anywhere in the UK you can purchase this from? cheers Geoff.