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Went through pretty much the same myself, being diabetic your more prone to infection because of a lowered immunity system or so I was led to believe, and ignored the advice and then spent eighteen months fighting a worsening infection in my leg leading to a stay in hospital. hth.

Hi, yeah I've decided that I'm type 3c as well, my diabetes was diagnosed after 12years or so of chronic pancreatitis, but I keep getting labelled type 2 and now I've just started insulin (once a day, a.m.) my numbers are finally falling, still confused but hey ho I'm not the only one, it would...

Trying not to start a big pointless debate but personally I've smoked herb for a few years now and it has little to no effect on my blood sugars and the munchies that were mentioned don't exist, also motivation and attention to tiny detail, if anything, kick into overdrive. As I previously said...

I've found personally that stress makes my sugars rocket so the accustomed "chill" worked in lowering them again but, as always, it's horses for courses so tread very carefully with hypo awareness because I do think it would be easily masked and maybe missed.

Went for my annual review last week and the Dr told me I was to double my dosage of Gliclazide and start testing 4 times a day instead of once and I've to start on insulin so apparently an appointment is in the pipeline with a diabetic nurse. He seemed a bit perturbed by the lack of treatment...

I'm by no means an expert but as difficult as it is I think going to sleep when your readings are that low is very unadvisable, having something to raise your levels and then seeing how you feel once the numbers have risen is safer because sometimes sleep can be mistaken for unconsciousness. It...

Thanks everyone for the responses, feeling a bit better about myself now but still finding living with myself quite difficult when all I seem to do nowadays is find myself unable to do what I used to do and feel so weak blaming it on the diabetes and then get annoyed because I should be grateful...

Hello everyone, not posted in a while, I've been trying to ignore my condition but I'm failing, ahem, anyway the reason for the post is does anyone else find themselves flying off the handle and losing their temper at the most trivial things?, yesterday I had to take myself away from people...

Received another phone call from the Dr after they got my most recent results back and now I'm being screened for hepatitis, all this because of an untreated infection in my shin, the shin bones connected to the...liver?, hehe, whatever next I wonder.

Recently I've been on various doses and length of course of 3 different antibiotics and a short course of steroids due to bells palsy and they have had the obvious effect on my blood sugars which have been peaking at a new high of 26, I know to some peeps that isn't that terrible or uncommon but...

Had another call from the Dr and I've to get more blood taken and I'm being referred for an ultra sound for my liver, it would appear the antibiotics I was on have damaged my liver and I can only hope it's reversible as I seem to remember it's regenerative and can heal itself as long as it's not...

I've been told to stop taking one of the antibiotics because of the damage it's doing to my liver and I've finished the course of another so I'm just on flucloxacilin(sp) and weekly blood tests. My leg is healing quite well apart from the pain but that's to be expected and the mri that had me...

Yeah, thanks all, appointment attended, advice given and we'll go back to it in a year when everything has settled down, hopefully it's because of other medication and things will level out when I complete the courses of tablets. Happier now .

Yeah sorry about that, I've recently been released from the hospital on 3 different antibiotics and since developed/diagnosed with Bells' Paulsy for which I receive the steroids, one of the antibiotics forced liver monitoring whilst another one raises concern over periphery neuropathy and now...

The hdl was measured on 16/03/18 at 1.2 and the ldl was 3.5, again I don't know what these figures mean and what significance they hold over the recent results but it's beginning to look like I have a lot of questions to ask tomorrow, thanks for the information you guys, greatly appreciated.

Yeah, my cholesterol went up from 5.2 on 27th April to 5.9 30th April, doesn't sound much but the wee graph thing made it look terrible.

Hello everyone, please forgive my ignorance and I suppose laziness on this one but I got a call earlier from the gps' about an appointment for tomorrow to discuss my lft and maybe introducing statins.., all I've heard about statins is to avoid them but I don't know why or what it is they're...

I'm doing it again and now replying to myself, sorry people, I've had splitting sore headaches and partial deafness for about 3 weeks now, diagnosed and irrigated by two different nurses whilst going through 2 bottles of otex and one of bicarbonate of soda but the problem remains.

Upon reflection, once again I bless the nhs, too many times I have had my life saved or eased and to hear some people in waiting rooms bad mouthing the Drs and nurses really "boils my blood" when personally I would be long gone. It's like this website and the good people on it, I feel lucky to...

Hello everyone, thanks for the prompting to do something rather than sitting worrying, I'm just back from the hospital and apparently it's bells paulsy...I need to do some reading cause I've no knowledge of it. I got prescribed steroids and even got a roll of tape to keep my eye closed through...