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    NHS Digital Weight Management Programme

    now lost 9.9 kgs had problem with weight after taking antibiotics finished them yesterday AM and had pale stool today unsure if gall bladder or caused by antibiotic. Could be either been on low carb (130g) diet all month and lost weight before starting. Not sure what to do about so will monitor...
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    NHS Digital Weight Management Programme

    I lost 22lbs with orlistat and am currently on a new regime. I read a lot and am known for teaching medical professionals things they don't know (I read medical research on PKU, Diabetes and occasionally other conditions that I have. over 20 not all severe though). I have lost 5.5Kg in 3 weeks...
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    Green tea - the good, bad and plain ugly

    altred your taste i assumed itt was one of my other meds that did that? I am on rosuvastatin and metformin 1g (xr)
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    Lack of consistency

    why should you mention even pensioners surely people on benefits are on much lower incomes?
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    Please someone help me

    hi i had T2D and it was improved rapidly and was put on metformin x 4 and I had regular hypos but they took me off metformin due to it and my HbA1c went down to the low prediabetic range (40.2 the lowest) (but it has gone back up to 57 now). I put on weight as I was told I was cured and went...
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    Artificial Sweeteners

    Aspartame is a greed driven poison I have PKU and Phenylalanine the main ingredient causes the same things to us in a greater degree Aspartame causes seizures ADHD OCD Schizophrenia depression Bipolar and all sorts of dangerous things just more so in PKU the information is out there. [Mod edit...
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    How bad is smoking for a Type 2 diabetic?

    i use Nicorett icy white gum 4mg started on 35 cut down to average of 15.5 a day (mx recommended is 15 but that wasn't enough) still have 1.5 kg of tobacco but smoke free told me to throw it but its worth nearly £800 so won't chuck it! My weight has increased as lost will power but I went from...
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    Safety of statins

    Good idea was going to try statins without orlistat. The Dr. didn't have a clue and just did multiple blood tests and still didn't have a clue! I know more than practically any dr about all the medical conditions I have - especially the two worst ones and it was the best idea I came up with...
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    Safety of statins

    why would our own body try to kill us? Cancer cells are in allof us and just need to be activated!
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    Safety of statins

    The original question was should I assume that statins caused swollen neck lymph nodes or orlistat? Or the combination? Think statins would be benefcial as my triglycerides were over 7
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    Safety of statins

    What he probably meant is that cavemen ate a better diet and had less heart attacks, There are people who deliberately return to this diet to treat T2 and it appears quite sucessful (if a bit boring). The modern diet causes heart attacks and other factors such as heating meaning we use less...
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    Safety of statins

    it says statins "marginally improve HDL" but I am already on fish oil and other supplements which increased HDL from 0.6 to 0.7 and reduced LDL from 3.8 to 3.2 (but anything lower than 3.0 is ideal) and hdl of over 1.4 has no additional benefit and it should be over 1.0 at least,) fish oil can...
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    Safety of statins

    The swelling stopped and am unsure whether the statins or orlistat caused it. Need the statins to improve HDL which should be above 1.0 and the triglycerides were 7 point something
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    Safety of statins

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    Safety of statins

    They said it was high at 4.4 and the hdl was 0.6 the ldl 3.8. has improved its the hdl/ldl ratio that was high and the triglycerides were high too high to calculate the ratio (as it no longer applies above a certain number - as would be innacurate). And out of interest they no longer require...
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    Safety of statins

    I have been put on statins and tried to lose weight with orlistat and tried 3 times to use and my throat swelled possibly lymph nodes and both rosuvastatine and orlistat can cause that. Unsure which did! Please can anyone tell me if it is more lkely the statin or the orlistat as the doctor...
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    Anyone got a diabetic cat?

    I have a diabetic cat