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I have one coffee per day and if given tea I puke! I drink water but only with cordial in it. The rest of the day I get through probably 2l of fizzy diet pop. I can’t get a straightforward answer from the diabetic nurse as to why I shouldn’t drink fizzy pop and on the advice from my urologist -...

I’m sorry to rant on about this but I am getting extremely angry when we are encouraged to shop on-line. How? There are no delivery slots from any of the large supermarkets. I’ve had grocery deliveries since 2009 and I absolutely loathe, detest, abhor going out. Three weeks I’ve been trying to...

At my last review I yet again raised the topic of self-testing of blood glucose levels. Again, I was told I didn’t need to do any testing but this time I was also told “you have the wrong type of diabetes”. I should have asked what she meant but my patience was wearing pretty thin after some...

I’ve just read the piece on blood sugar level ranges. My diabetic nurse has never discussed a target to aim for and she still insists that I do not need to test blood sugar levels daily because I have the ‘wrong sort of diabetes’. I’m on 4 Metformin and 1 Alogliptin daily and my last reading in...

For some reason I can’t complete the survey on my iPad.

Recent blood tests show the result of HbA1c as 52mmol. The specialist nurse at my GP surgery informed me of a prediabetes diagnosis and has said that there is no need for me to do my own blood testing at home. Having looked at a table of mmol readings, my result suggests that I am type 2...