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Thank you everyone, this is really useful. £50 a fortnight is unaffordable for me, sadly, so I'll have a look at the other options :)

Hi, I'm T2 and the nurse won't give me a monitoring device, so I'm looking at what's available but it's a bit overwhelming and I can't get my head around it all. What I need is a cheap, decent monitor which won't cost too much to keep up testing, so monitor plus strips or sensors or something. I...

I was diagnosed with T2 a year ago and was told to take metformin, increasing from 1 tablet a day to 4. By the time I got to 4, I kept having awful symptoms, really bad bloating, stomach churning and nasty, sulphurous belching. It was disgusting. I've had to stop eating baked beans ever...

Thank you, that is also a big consideration to discuss with the nurse. I was getting hypos a LOT and have done since I was much, much younger, so I'd like to not have to worry about them any more! It was causing a lot of embarrassment when I was with friends because I would either have to ask...

Thank you, that's reassuring. I need to remember to write things down, I have terrible memory issues!

Hi, I was diagnosed with type 2 in the summer and had to work up to 4 metformin a day. I had a blood test yesterday and I've just had a message from the GP via the receptionist to say that I have to cut down to 1 a day straight away and talk to a doctor if I've lost weight. I have lost 2...

Thanks Coby, this is all new to me so I'm just trying to absorb a little bit of information at a time. I've had hypoglycaemia since I was in my 20s, it's just recently tipped over into type 2 and now I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed and have a long journey to go I think.

- What is your name? Mandy - How old are you? 49 - Are you male or female? female - Which country are you from? England - Which city/area do you live in? Teesside - Are you religious? No - Pick three words to describe your personality. Music, festivals, collecting records - Do you have any...

Hi, I'm posting for the first time as a newly diagnosed T2 and I really needed to read the OP today. It's taken me a couple of weeks to stop feeling horribly depressed and self-hating, that it's all my fault for being overweight and I'm stupid etc. The fact is that my parents were both very...