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  1. joanAA

    Sugar free sweets?

    Marks and Spencer sell Butter Scotch drops in small packs by the till, sweetener is Isomalt, Sucralose, 0.3% the packs are 42g, very useful to keep in the car so that you don't stop at the next service station and buy a doughnut
  2. joanAA

    Apple Laptop

    Hi, I have a 5 year old Imac, and a 1 year macbook pro. I have Windows office 2011 on both using mainly Excel. On the Macbook, my main (very minor) annoyance is the fact that the horizontal scroll bar disappears frequently, and takes fiddling to get it back. Other that it is a great bit of...
  3. joanAA

    metformin. can't do it anymore

    I started with gliclazide which did not agree with my insides, so was moved onto metformin. I 'lived' with very frequent bouts of cramps, diarrhoea, excess wind etc and after nearly a year Dr said that I could now go onto SR Metformin (more expensive to prescribe) because I had proved that...
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    has anyone been refused test strips for type 2

    I, too, was refused another meter, after mine was stolen after about a year. Funny, because I was given one when it was obvious that my blood glucose was not being controlled. However, I am going to purchase another, and wondered if anyone has had experience with the newer type, without...