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Help please. Age 55, female, type 2 Diabetic for 4 years, metformin 2000mg, Gliclazide 40mg, Pantoprazole 40mg, Losartan 25mg, Allopurinol 100mg. Strong history of close family T2 diabetes and one T1. Also strong close family history of cancers starting around gallbladder lower stomach and...

Hi all, just a word of encouragement for anyone struggling with their blood glucose and wondering if the low carb programme is worth the effort: it really works! I have been overweight for 35 years and diabetic for four years. At Easter my fasting BG was 23.9 and I felt awful. My GP put me on...

Hello Keepers Of Wisdom, since I cleaned up my act a month or so ago I have been using 100% pure xylitol (about four teaspoons per day) to sweeten yogurt and cocoa. I just googled it and came up with some rather alarming links to tumours when eaten in quantity. However ‘quantity’ was not...

After discovering my diabetes was not under control almost four weeks ago my metformin was doubled to 1000mg twice daily and I started Gliclazide 80mg, taking one and a half twice daily. I also follow the a low carb diet of under 80g per day. During that time my readings have gone down from...

Hi all, am following the low carb programme and doing well, but we are invited out to dinner on Friday to a French creperie, a Breton speciality often made with buckwheat and filled with savoury stuff and salad. Would anyone know what the carbs would be for the pancake itself? I can choose a...

Hi, Please forgive this lengthy post but am worried. I am 52 with a strong family history of diabetes. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes a few years back and until last year was doing well with metformin. As I was advised not to test my blood by the diabetic nurse I was not aware how high...