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The last time I posted here it was mostly a rant as I'd just been told that I had pancreatic cancer, diagnosed so late that the most that could be offered was chemo plus taking care of symptoms. By that time I'd lost almost a third of my body weight and last year was told I had Type 2...

About a year ago )or more) I saw my GP with stomach pain. I'd lost some weight but was trying to through diet and exercise. I actually saw the doctor face to face and was told I had IBS after some tests for stomach problems. Since then I lost a lot of weight and in late Autumn was told I was a...

Apologies bin advance for a long post and if admins want to move to more appropriate categories they're welcome to do so. First, I lost a lot of weight within a year, up to 20 kg, taking me from slightly ovrerweight to close to underweight. During early investigations I nwas tested for hbA1c...

As I'm a newbie, if this is in the wrong place please can admins move it. I was diagnosed with T2, hnA1c of 47 rising to 55 by early autumn and was prescribed lipigliptin whish caused bullus perigould (autoimmune blistering) and was taken off it., last August and was told to try and reduce it...

I was only diagnosed pre-diabetic last summer, then my hbA1c shot up from 47 to 55 and I was prescribed lipigliptin. I've had two hbA1c tests since then, each one increasing by a point on the last, and was taken off that med after getting bullus perhgould (blistering skin), and was given...

I'm starting a new thread as my first is so long. I only was able to start finger prick tests yesterday and I have a little idea how my bg is changing with food. Most of my diet is high carb although from NHS advice I didn't think it was and and my weight has dropped so my BMI is now 21.4. My...

Last summer I was picked up as almost in the diabetic range. Around two months later I'd reduced carbs and lost weight but my my hba1c had gone up to 50, then 55. At that point I was given lipigliptin. 2 months later I had bullus pemphigoid covering most of me, believed to be caused by the...