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Try "twitching" the muscles just above the ankles, I find it helps. The heart naturally relaxes at night reducing blood pressure hence reducing blood flow in the legs. Twitching the muscles just above your ankles helps blood flow in the feet and legs. I find it both free and effective, well...

I figured this out for myself in 1986. A neurologist confirmed it in 2020. Obviously I do not know what causes your problem, I can only tell you what I found. In brief, (summing up 36 years in a short post is difficult!), I found that not wearing underpants made a huge difference, I went...

Fuss, complain, don't take "no" for an answer. I currently am with a superb diabetes specialist and still having trouble, but was earlier once actually discharged by one idiot "consultant" who saw it easier to discharge me than offer essential medical help. Unfortunately, we have in many...

. As I'm 72 years old, diagnosed in 1985, but now believe had type 2 diabetes from childhood, I'm ahead of you! Things I've tried include codeine phosphate, (fairly effective but nasty stuff), Dettol antiseptic in bathwater then having a long bath, (effective but see below), and sunbathing! I...

As an "oldie", (71 last birthday, diagnosed in 1985, believed type 2 from childhood), may I please add - be pleased that it hurts! The next stage is numbness when you have no idea if anything's wrong. Many years ago, I woke up one May morning to find that my feet were really cold. Cold in...

Please forgive me - you must be a bit cut up about this! Seriously, high blood sugars feed infection so temporarily reduce carbohydrates. For example ditch potatoes, ditch any white flour products, (if you have to, eat wholemeal bread) and, of course ditch pasta & pizzas. If you are on...

But have you just been checked by a high street optician or a competent eye clinic run by Moorfields of of a similar standard? If only a high street optician my advice is to get to see a competent specialist as swiftly as possible. At worst following my advice may waste a few hours. At best...

????? I suggest that's advice you should take. I have been properly monitored since 1985. Over the years, competent monitoring by specialist doctors has found certain problems and they have acted accordingly. If I had only seen a high street optician and the service about which I have...

Rubbish, I was checked by a competent eye specialist doctor linked to the hospital diabetes clinic from diagnosis and have never previously come across this, in my view, blatant scam.

You are dangerously wrong. On a simple sight test basis, I count as having a very good standard of sight. However, I am suffering from a number of slowly developing conditions that are being monitored. If any go beyond what is considered safe, I may need very urgent intervention even if my...

I have not, as you claimed, defamed "a legitimate service provider providing a legitimate service". I have drawn attention to what I feel is a 3rd world standard screening service that creates the illusion of checking for problems that can arise from diabetes. I stick by what I have said, it...

I only object as this company seems to be getting it wrong. In my view the NHS is paying for a service but isn't getting it.

I have eye difficulties that are closely monitored by an outreach clinic run by Moorfields. Currently my sight is good and I have, for example, no difficulty driving at 130 kilometres per hour in France in the dark, (it's legal there!), but there are problems. However, to further explain my...

It is important to know that the "service" about which I complain is run by a private company paid to carry out these tests for the NHS. I very much doubt that those who commissioned the work expected these standards, which is why I have asked them to investigate. Ultimately, the NHS can only...

You have missed the point, I took my wife to a specialised diabetic eye checkup and found the inadequate shambles described at the top of this thread. My wife does see an optician, but the optician doesn't match the eye check standards that I routinely have, also arranged by the NHS. But why...

I joined The British Diabetic Association, now Diabetes UK in 1985 when my diabetes was diagnosed. I joined this forum today as I am still furious at the way, as I see it, people with diabetes are being cheated. You can make of it what you will that otherwise nothing in my experience of...

That attitude is absolutely disgraceful. My complaint is firstly that what I saw could lead to large numbers of people needlessly going blind at huge cost to them and to the country. If I followed your advice we'd be OK but what about the rest? I also saw inadequate advice on impaired sight...

If it's intended to be to the very low standard that I saw, patients should be warned it's a waste of time!

I think I should reply to you. The standard diabetic eye test that I have been having since 1985 starts with an eye check using a chart. A nurse then administers eye drops. When the pupils have been dilated, photographs are taken. Sometimes a fields test is carried out. Sometimes other...

I concede, you are right.