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Well I phoned my local surgery on Monday, just my luck the diabetes nurse is on holiday this week. She's calling me on Monday 22 June.

Thanks, I haven't coped at all well with the diabetes diagnosis, I admit that. Trying to eat healthier, ham salad today, the big weight loss is worrying me though, so will go to doctors this week.

I know that I need to lose weight and have been cutting down on the milk. Just losing the amount I have is worrying. I thought my scales were wrong, then checked on another one and still same result.

I don't use the machine and not on medication

Not testing, I tend to eat a mix of good and bad. Still have fish and chips (but split it into two portions), at one stage was having up to 10 pints of milk a day - down to 2 now, chocolate bars and trifles, sandwiches. not the kind of food that would see me lose that much weight if any.

I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes right at the end of 2019, literally as it was December 31. Blood Sugar test was 91 and I weighed 15 stone. I didn't take the news that well and by March I was six pounds higher. I haven't been purposely trying to lose weight, still been drinking up to 8l of...

Reading on machine has gone down from 20 to 6 and that's with me still eating all the foods my nurse tells me not to. I was drinking too much milk, cut that down so that's that. Still eating what I want.

I had blood tests on Christmas Eve and got my results on New Year's Eve. Blood sugar figure was 91 and I've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Trying to read up on the subject but not easy as I have loads of work on. Was given a testing machine, that started off at 20.1, again rather high.