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    Eye screening

    Hi I had my eye screening this morning vision is pretty much back to normal but my right eye feels as though someone's poked Me in the eye. Is this normal
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    How did you find out you had diabetes?

    I kept falling asleep especially after eating
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    Not sure what's going on

    I have type 2 . Generally my sugar levels are between 7.8 and 12. I'm still trying to get them lower. I take meformin 3 times a day. My question is normally around 3-4 pm my work mates have told me that I go a bit mental. They say I act as though I've had a few drinks and am really chatty and...
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    Can bring in pain cause high blood levels

    my sugar levels recently have been quite high. Generally around 14 in the morning and before dinner around 10. I have been quite stressed with work and family life and only my arthritis has flared up. So could this be causing them to be high?
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    Metformin in slow release

    Thanks for the reply will read in the am
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    Metformin in slow release

    Hi my nurse changed me over from regular metformin as I had terrible trouble with bowels after eating . Have been on the slow release one in morning the other pm and feel shattered constantly and need the loo about 4 times in the night. My fasting blood results were 8.9 two weeks ago. Any help...
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    Bit of advise please feeling sick

    Thanks for taking the time to reply think I will check with nurse and go from there
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    Bit of advise please feeling sick

    I've been told not to take my blood readings as at the doctors they will do a test every three months
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    Bit of advise please feeling sick

    Metformin 3 times a day but sometimes I forget to take the middle of the day one
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    Bit of advise please feeling sick

    Hi. I'm type 2 and try to control but have the occasionally blimps. Latly when I get hungry I feel sick as In I feel im gonna throw up. Today I went to my friends house and stood in her hallway and felt so ill and I felt hungry inhad to sit on he floor as i felt i was gonna pass out she ran I...
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    Fire walk???

    Can diabetics do a fire walk. Obviously we have to take care of our feet.
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    A FEW QUESTIONS

    Hi Im type 2 diabetic. Should I get a blood gloucose monitor, as reading the boards some say yes others say type 2 don't need to if on metformin. Also if you are type 2 do you get hypos. Still trying to get my head around what I can and cant eat, finding it quite difficult if honest...
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    Read it all and still cant disgest it all.

    Hi all, On christmas eve i got told i had type 2 diabetes. Im female aged 39 , Been told to loose weight which is fair enough and been put in metformin. (which i havent actually started to take as i need to get my head around it all first). Apart from generally falling asleep after having say...