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As little as I can get away with, but I am currently taking 225mg of Topirmate daily 125mg in the morning and 100mg of an evening to help with my migraines and to control my ME so daily it can vary. But my lowest is 20mg of carbohydrates.

Well please keep your fingers cross for me. I was forced to take vitamin B12 tablets on Wednesday, I took one, as I have a needle phobia - and I am having that tested as well on May 14th. I ended up in A and E for 48 hours. Everything I ate went through me. BS was not tested as I would not...

I am sorry but I am going to have to disagree with not being able to reverse diabetes. My GP thinks I may have cracked it. In October I was diagnosed with type 2. I may have even been type 1.5. But I am having a blood test in May. I have lost 9 stone since then my BMI is now 24.2 I am now 10.5...

You can have a teaspoon of salad dressing - not salad cream or mayo - but extra virgin olive oil, that has zero carbohydrates per 100mls. but you literally just need a teaspoon, as the other values per 100 mls are: 822cals, protein nil, fat 91.3g satruates 15.5g, Mono - unsaturates 66.1g...

My itchy skin isn't related to my diabetes either. I unfortunately picked up shingles, now I have chicken pox, so am rather poorly. If I get slightly hot, I get slightly itchy in the area I had shingles.

Do you want to carry on with trying diet alone? Are you low carbing? What are you eating? Have you had a look at the low carb forum? There are quite a few nice recipes on there. Taking medication is entirely up to you. But the longer you can keep off it the better. I was diagnosed in October...

Good luck. Please do let us all know how you get on. I like the idea of the balloon, with the ring inside. :thumbup:

Well Done.. :D I am too hoping to beat this nasty disease. I don't test my blood sugars, and I have M.E as well as being diabetic - but I am also on the verge of having my anorexia back. My weight is coming down really well - and I no longer feel as if I am diabetic. I don't take medication...

I should be. M.E is stuck with me for life, anything else can go take a running jump out of the window. Today I decided to write a book, why waste my degree? My life as an anorexic with M.E and diabetes? Good enough title!

Ssshhh. I don't have a monitor. I've been diagnosed since October 2012. I just don't have wheat based products or rice, pasta, dairy products. I am a very difficult diabetic - plus I have M.E. and also a recovering 'anorexic' whom I let doctors take over my life when I was a teen and in my early...

Hi, and welcome to the forum. I am sure one of the more experienced ones such as Daisy or Sid will be along shortly to welcome you. It is more the carbohydrate content to watch out for which is a more refined kind of sugar. Which Daisy will be able to explain more of. Sassy.

Do try a diet change. Small changes at first, pizzas as you say seem your downfall. Also stress, is there someone who could help with the children? Apart from your partner, in laws perhaps? Why not try looking at Vivs modified atkins diet? Which is in the sticky thread at the top of one of the...

Pop along and have a look at our low carb forum. There are quite a few good ideas. I am sorry - but I have really bad brain fog this morning due to my M.E. :crazy: and I have only just skimmed your message. I am really certain someone will be along soon to offer some more concrete ideas.

That is what my hubbies nan said. She has recently been told she is now no longer classed as diabetic, all her blood glucose levels have returned to normal - because her weight has reduced. That is all she done - lost weight. Yes she also now low carbs. She doesn't like bread, she doesn't like...

I can't say, as I am a recovering anorexic, and struggle with food. Weight gain for me happened because I was chucked on weight induced tablets plus steriods and I have medication induced diabetes. :( . Despite my dad having type2. For me though I am off the steroids and the other meds that...

Hi and welcome to the forum, I am sure Daisy or Anna will be along soon with some advice for you. Firstly, I can say though. You do not have to eat wholemeal bread/rice/pasta, you do not have to eat any bread/rice/pasta if you can live without it. Veg - Peppers are fine, I think Onions are (I...

Re: Newly diagnosed type 2 Hi Sarah Welcome to the forum. I am really sorry that the tablets are not helping. I would demand a c - peptide test, as you say you are not that much overweight, and only in your 30's. As someone else has suggested, you may be type 1.5. If not and you are type 2...

If for some reason you cannot have eye drops ( allergic reactions in the past) then please do tell them. I came clean about the whole of my medical history, I had to. And I was offered screening without eye drops. Please don't say, you have to have eye drops, I couldn't because I already have...

I've qualified for the Flu jab since having M.E. and until recently, I have always had the Flu jab. Two years ago however, I reacted to it really severely, and upon further tests found out I had an egg allergy. So I don't get pestered anymore unless they get the 'non - egg' vaccine in. But I had...

Right. I took time out - spoke to hubby, spoke to GP. We have agreed on a few things. I am not to be pushed. I still do not do blood glucose testing.I go through enough pain with the M.E so having a prick in my finger 2-3 times a day will push me over the edge :lol: I will eat, when I am...