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For the paxt fews weeks I have been getting itchy blotches on my back and stomach. The itching starts before the blotches appear, they are not bites, and don't seems to have heads. The patches are about 1cm in size, bur are not regular in shape, and they appear in random places, not enough to be...

I can't take anything with Aspartame in as it gives me an awful migraine.

I have been to see the GP this morning,moot a same day appt, she has made some suggestions to help me, and changed the AD I was on. The wants to do some investigations into sleepwalking, and I have to go back and see her on Saturday. Luckily I don't have any stairs to worry about.

some mornings my blood sugars have been higher than expected, for no apparent reason. After a nasty fall last night whilst sleepwalking, it would appear I have been eating in My sleep. Has anyone heard of or suffer from this, and what is likely to be the cause? Apparently I have been doing this...

I don't seem to suffer sugar spikes with the fruit, yesterday my waking BS was 5.4, I had banana and strawberries for breakfast. Black grapes and raspberries at lunch and at teatime I had a pear, after a serving of roast Mediterranean veg, 2 hrs later, after medication, my BS was 5.4 . All I had...

T2, diagnosed July 2011. 5 stone lost on low carb diet.

I'm not a veggie lover, so tend to get my 5 a day from fruit, but can you have too much fruit? I usually have 2 pieces for breakfast, 1 for lunch and then 1 or 2 after my evening meal. My preferred fruits are berries of any sort, grapes, pears, bananas and satsumas. The only time I can eat...

Low Carb is the ideal diet for me, it's the one that keeps my blood sugars down, and I can lose weight on it, 5 stone so far. My daily intake is Stewed fruit, no sugar for breakfast, this is apples mixed with whatever is available, quite often it will be mixed berries Lunch is cold meat, or egg...

I was diagnosed T2 in July 2011, and was put on Metformin 3 times a day, it made me feel really ill. It was swapped for Januvia, and I haven't looked back. I eat about 75 gm of carbs a day, and my readings are low and stable on that dosage. I don't eat any grains except oats., so no bread...

Thanks Rockape, , I never knew that

I know that exercise and general activities can be given a 'calories used' value, but is there any equivalent way of judging how many carbs you use on a given activity, I do a fast, well for me, walk 5 days a week. It takes me 40 minutes to do about 2 miles, is there any way, other than testing...

As Carraway says, the calorie and carb counter books are very, I have just bought the updated version of Carbs and Cals, which has photos of portion sizes, now includes protein, fat, saturated fat and fibre in the info, as well as weight of the portion photographed, and the carb count. It's by...

A chap I know was like this, always too busy to go to the GP. Smoked like trooper, drank like a fish, lived on junk. he developed ulcers on his foot that wouldn't heal. He has now lost one leg to the knee, two toes on the other foot, his home and his job. He was self employed and did several...

I use the Accu-check Aviva Nano, But my pharmacy hasn't been Ble to get the lancets for this for 3 months now, luckily I have a box left, is Anyone else having difficulty getting these?

I was diagnosed with T2 on 1st July last year, after a long course of steroids, which turned out to be a waste of time. I weighed 20 stone at the time, and my fasting glucose was over 11, after the glucose tolerance test it was over 22. The doctor told me I had to change my eating habits and...

Thank you for the replies folks, the results in my post are in the order they were taken. I've just checked my levels this morning, and it's 5.1 which is within my normal range, last night's was 6.3, again normal sort of level for me for an evening test.

Last night when I checked my sugar levels, I was expecting them to be In the 7's, which is a bit on the high side side for me. 3 readings, within a minute gave me the following results, Middle finger, 8.8 Ring finger 11.5 Index finger 7.6 Has anyone any idea why I got such differing results...

I was diagnosed with T2 15 months ago, I went for my check up with our diabetic nurse this morning, and the first thing she said to me wa 'Don't you look well' In the last 15 months I have followed a low carb diet, I have lost 60lbs and dropped 5 dress sizes. I know the foods that trigger my...

I was diagnosed with T2 11 months ago. Since then I have managed to lose 3 stone and 2 dress sizes. About a month ago I felt a depression in my scalp, to the left of and slightly forward of my crown. Since then it has changed shape from a dent to a furrow, and is moving forward and can be felt...

Hello everybody, I was diagnosed with Type2 diabetes in early July this year. I had been on steroids for 4 months before that, and the GP thinks that the steroids triggered the diabetes, although I had been having annual fasting blood tests for 3 or4 years before that. I was put on Metformin...