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    Type 2 needing insulin

    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...
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    What does one have to do to get treatment with insulin once referred?

    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...
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    How long do blood sugar levels of around 15 with no treatment cause irreversible problems?

    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...
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    Is Metformin damaging your quality of life, or killing you?

    Hi I've recently had to stop taking Metformin after 18 years, as an increase from one twice a day to 2 twice a day, caused such severe symptoms. I basically started to retain fluid, yet had constant diarrhoea. I gained around 5 kilos of fluid over a very short space of time and stopped passing...