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Hi, an update from the last diagnosis. I went yesterday for my 12 month review. I explained to the optician that I was very nervous and had been so anxious over the past year due to my background retinopathy diagnosis. The optician was brilliant and looked at my photos from last year, she said...

Had a terrible night sleep tossing and turning and getting stressed about my background retinopathy (see my post in type 2 board below about feeling ashamed) think I just had "diabetes" on my mind before bed, resulted in a really rubbish 7.0 this morning!! Does stress affect your blood sugar...

Thank you, all of your replies have made me cry. Maybe it's the media campaign of hate towards type 2 diabetes and constantly play the blame game of obese people crippling the NHS. It's an awful awful disease. I hate it.

I very rarely tell anybody that I am diabetic. I feel ashamed that I've done this to myself. I'm 31, I was diagnosed at 24 with gestational diabetes and subsequently type 2 post delivery. I was obese from the age of 19-21 of 15 stone. I am now a healthy weight of 9st 9lbs and take metformin...

5.6 this morning

5.8 this morning finally on my 3rd morning of testing I see a 5

6.0 this morning, done my non-diabetic husbands and he was 6.3!!

6.1 just got my blood monitor yesterday so quite pleased for my first one

No I don't have any anxiety about my meds just trying to connect the dots as to why I'm not losing weight at the rate I usually do. I go to the gym 5-6 times a week and have done for the last 2 years. I relaxed my eating too much after a holiday in April and put a bit of weight on, usually sit...

Maybe it's my metabolism slowing down then. I'm not sure. I've come from 10st 7lb down to 9st 11lb since the beginning of May but usually I lose 2lb a week. It is coming off but more slowly than usual, but still coming off which is good. I was just curious to the new medication as I started it...

anybody been changed to this brand of metformin and having problems with weight? Usually on my weight reduction regime I lose a steady 2lb per week. Now I'm on this medication I'm losing sometimes 1/2lb a week and doing exactly the same as before. The only difference I can see is the change in...

So with the blurry vision and background retinopathy you'd be going to see a specialist?

As in does the light hurt my eyes? Not really but I do get a pain behind my actual eyeball sometimes.

I'm also very paranoid now with my vision I keep getting blurry vision, no black spots or shadows just blurry vision. I'm slowly but surely going mad, I don't know if I actually have got blurry vision or it's my mind playing tricks. It never goes blurry when I'm out and about just when I start...

All of my other eye exams have been clear and I go every single year for them.

Hi, this is my first post. I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in 2010 and then eventually type 2 post delivery. I have recently received my eye screening results back stating mild background retinopathy. My hba1c's have been between 40-45 for the last 4 years, a fair bit higher whilst I...