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    New to Metformin - a couple of questions..

    Today is my last day of 500mg only (I increase to two pills tomorrow) and all of my friends kept telling me it would give me the trots, etc. etc....I was okay on days 1, 2, and 3 but on day 4 I wanted to live in the toilet I was on it so frequently! But I've been told it will mellow out. I'm...
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    Type 2 and PCOS and Metabolic Syndrome, Oh My!

    What the topic says. I am feeling super overwhelmed right now and it's like I haven't had any time to process anything, either as it's been a very busy few months for us between visitors, planned weekends away, my chorus competition, my husband's father breaking his hip, losing two of my family...
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    Type 2 reversal

    The Diabetic clinic nurse at the hospital (Lincoln) told me that you are considered cured if for five straight years your HBA1c tests are all in the normal range. I asked her for clarification because my GP (who is not the diabetic specialist GP) was trying to tell me I'd be cured after...
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    Travel Insurance Grrrrrr!!!

    My husband and I pay around £100 for the both of us with Directline. I rang Directline to tell them when I was first diagnosed and they only upped our insurance by a tenner. I asked what would have happened if I hadn't disclosed my diabetes and she informed me that I wouldn't be covered if an...
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    How Can I be "cured" according to GP?

    Thank you all. That's exactly what I thought too -- being told "you're cured!" makes it sound like it's totally okay to go back to eating white bread, pasta, potatoes, cake, chocolate, etc and that's really just not on at all! I will fight this hard and insist on the GTT in March if he tries...
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    GP says I'm Cured!

    This is what has me concerned. I just posted today that I saw a note on my file that if my HBA1c is "normal" in March (a year after diagnosis) that I will be marked as "cured".....I don't want to be marked as "cured", I want to be monitored and have my feet and eyes checked because I know it...
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    My Pre-Conception Clinic Experience

    Just an update....my HBA1c is still 34 and I've been told it's perfectly fine to get pregnant.....but it's been confirmed that I am not ovulating and have PCOS, so I'm waiting for a gyn referral right now to be put on Metformin as the diabetic clinic can't do it due to my HBA1c being normal and...
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    How Can I be "cured" according to GP?

    *sigh* I was in for a blood test, and I glanced at the nurses' screen because she couldn't find a December review in the system (even tho I had written it down on my calendar "make appt in Dec" and the diabetic nurse told me she wanted to see me in Dec at my June appt) Under my annual review...
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    What to eat with a tummy bug?

    Thanks everyone. I wound up drinking only water for about 4 days. It wasn't ideal, but at least it was something!
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    What to eat with a tummy bug?

    I caught a stomach bug over the weekend and well, things haven't been pretty. When my husband was ill, the GP told us to get him some Diuralyte, but the box says it's not suitable for diabetics....so what can I use to help rehydrate myself other than water? and of course, the traditional BRAT...
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    Now I need Vitamin D and Metformin to get pregnant?!

    No, I'm not on anything. I was really, really lucky that my bp and cholesterol have been in the OK range.
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    My Pre-Conception Clinic Experience

    I've basically copied in an email I've sent to my cousin. Obviously, some of the bit will be irrelevant to most of you since you have diabetes and don't need things explained, but I wanted to share my experience with others who might be in my situation! -- I had a Preconception Diabetic clinic...
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    Back on the Wagon

    Thank you, Sarah Jane! That was exactly what I needed to hear!
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    Diabetic ExPats

    Hi Everyone, For those of who don't know me, I am an American with permanent residency in the UK and as an ex-pat, sometimes I want to talk to other ex-pats going through the same thing I am. Friends and I got together and we decided to make a group on Facebook called Diabetic Ex-Pats for...
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    Back on the Wagon

    *sigh* I had BRILLIANT results on my birthday weigh-in....down 33lbs since March!!! And then because it was my birthday followed by my husband's....there was cake....there was favourite foods...there were CARBS. We came home from our weekend away, stopped at Tesco, and I thought NOTHING...
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    pre conception targets

    I see the preconception clinic on the 27th, I'll report back what I get told then!
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    Low Carb options on East Coast Trains

    Exactly! You never know what will happen! I've also talked to Lincolnshire Co-Op about their lunch options -- all the salads seem to have white pasta in them, even regular ones, so hopefully they will change things!
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    Low Carb options on East Coast Trains

    On Tuesday, I was visiting a friend and changed trains in Nottingham. I had to walk into town to the Marks & Spark's food hall to get anything to eat that wasn't loaded with carbs and/or sugar.
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    Stopping weight loss - hard to eat more

    I'm kind of looking forward to having this problem....at least then I'll know I finally shifted all the weight!
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    Been Refused Testing Strips

    Lincolnshire here. I'm a T2 on diet control only and was told I don't need to test....and since I really can't afford to buy strips each month, I don't test.....and I'm sure it'd be better if I did. Oh well. But you've got my curious about the HB1Ac "rules" as I had mine done in June and...