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Thanks guys for all your support. Finally yesterday the 12 December I won a small but depressing battle and was prescribed a background insulin Toujeo. Its 4am and i'm about to look up side effects as I've just woken and had to take my wedding ring off as my left hand is twice the size it should...

Thank you Marie. Being abroad and it being night here doesn’t make any difference to me as I went to sleep about midnight and woke at 2 ish. I’ve been awake since as I’m too upset to sleep. I’m getting up now after a nightmare of a night. I have deploying self help in the absence of adequate...

Thank you for your prompt reply. I appreciate it at this late hour. I have been told that my C-Peptide is not what it should be and therefore suggestive of a worn out pancreas. I do wonder whether any of the medics actually know what they're doing as it seems a little hit and miss to me, when...

For those who have kindly answered my previous threads in the Type 2 forum I have now at last seen a consultant who was very efficient in her consultation. However, she worked for Central Manchester Trust. I was also in the meantime referred to the Specialist Diabetic Nurses at South Manchester...

Hi Claire I can't help you with your symptoms, which I recognise and share some of, but my experience says what you need is for your GP to refer you back to your consultant pdq for the answers you are looking for. Gps appear to have become deskilled in so many areas, they can no longer be...

For those who have kindly answered my previous threads, I have now at last seen a consultant who was very efficient in her consultation. However, she worked for Central Manchester Trust. I was also in the meantime referred to the Specialist Diabetic Nurses at South Manchester Trust who were to...

Your post was very relevant as I am on diet only at the moment. To help myself I am reluctantly trying low carbs again as I want to see if getting to 8stone instead of 9stone will make a difference. It will be tough on my moods as I love my food and hate being hungry. I am also going to exercise...

Thank you for your prompt reply. My blurred vision from dry eyes (not helped by high blood sugars) meant I was unable to read it. I appreciate the support as it feels non of the professionals are taking my condition seriously, even though I am having neuropathic pains in my swollen feet.

Has anyone struggled as I have, to be seen by a specialist diabetic consultant. I waited 5 months on no treatment, then was seen by a registrar who just wanted to prescribe without taking my history into consideration. What he prescribed didn't work so Im now waiting to see a Nurse specialist...

I am so pleased that is over and done with for you, but increasingly alarmed at the number of expensive CT scans in the diabetic community on Metformin. Im still not taking it and am wondering whether we should be lobbying for more tests on this cheap as chips drug.

Hi Sheila I hope the reason for your scan is not abdominal discomfort. I had over an 18 year period several such tests as I was in daily pain and became allergic to an increasing number of substances and foods, culminating in severe fluid retention. I stopped the Metformin under a Consultants...

Ive never had my HbA1cs measured as frequently as many on here, perhaps because of the length of time i've been on meds. Its been mainly 6month or a year. Ive found such a length of time between readings, meant I ignored the results and monitored using my testing strips. Ive fluctuated wildly...

Perhaps slow release is a better choice. It must be more expensive as I don't know many people on it. I'm really glad its working for you.

I agree that people should continue to use Metformin if they are not having side effects, but often people are ignorant as to what those side effects might be and put their symptoms down to something else, as I did for 18 years! I am gluten, chilli, mushrooms, seafoods, vinegar and rum and...

Thanks, especially for the hug.