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I started the Metabolism Miracle diet on the 9th and I have to admit that with 3 days in my bs has gone down. I'm not hungry and find that I can't finish my supper. Because my bs numbers have been high I had been experiencing some hypo symptoms even though I am just getting into the 5 range but...

I'm confused. When I was first dx in 2004 I was given a free meter and testing strips. Since then, on prescription, every 28 days I get 2 boxes of the strips. Am I the only one who gets them for free?

So I have been told that our health authority is changing the way diabetes is being handled. Earlier this year I received a phone call from a supposedly diabetes nurse who I couldn't understand. To make a long phone call short, she virtually threatened me by saying that if I don't lose weight...

Met with a new diabetes nurse today who told me that I have to lose weight to stay on Byetta. The health authority is starting to clamp down on expensive drugs and Lizzie is one of them. So in the next 3 months I have to lose 5 pounds to stay with Lizzie. I explained that Byetta is not a weight...

Thanks for the quick reply. This new fangled thing is so confusing to me. I usually just use it for texts and I haven't received a phone call on it yet so not sure what to press for that! :) I'll muddle though.

Help!! I just bought a Blackberry Pearl and would love this app but don't know how to download it onto my phone. Carol

On the US Byetta site it said that on average people lost 4 pounds over 30 weeks so I'm thinking I need to lose, at the most, 39 pounds. But it does say that Byetta is not a weight loss product. Even they make us confused. I am reading 'The 17 Day Diet' book so I might use that and start on...

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I think I have to lose a lot of weight. The woman mentioned July and the first woman I spoke to mentioned September for my next appointment. The diabetes care we get where I live is dreadful and I always thought so and this just proves that they don't know what they are doing. When I first...

Thanks. I will try to lose weight. I have until July to do it. I never knew about the losing weight rule. After getting the Byetta several years ago as part of a research trial I was cast adrift and never saw any of the diabetes nurses nor the endo after 2 times. *whispers* A couple of years...

Re: VICTOZA Are the pens preset like the Byetta ones? I was told today by, I think, the diabetes nurse I will be meeting soon, that since I haven't lost weight with Byetta I have to come off it. It doesn't matter to them that it has gotten my bs down, nooo, I have to have lost weight too. I...

Re: BYETTA...Help help help I just talked to,I guess, the diabetes nurse that I will be meeting when I go to the diabetes clinic in town and she said that if I haven't lose weight on Byetta then I can't be on it!!! Despite the fact that Lizzie has brought down my bs I won't be able to have it...

I just saw my gp last week and she didn't say anything about the strips. I get 2 boxes of them every 28 days. There are days that I do test a lot due to the Byetta. It's strange but things that might have raised my bs are now lowering it down to the mid 4s, very unusual for me. Carol

Byetta is driving me nuts I started a new Byetta pen last week and the first day I was nauseous most of the day and then the next day I had the runs. This is not the first time Lizzie has affected me this way but it was the worse. My friends tell me to tell my gp that I should give it up but...

Tonight starts a Jewish holiday where dairy is eaten so cheesecake will be on the menu. It's nice that Tesco has small single slices of it on sale.

For Hanukkah I make potato pancakes, latkes, and after putting the potatoes in the food processor to grate I put the potatoes in a dishcloth and wring it out so they are as dry as I can get. My bs doesn't rise that much after eating them.

Last year I went to the states and I had an extra Byetta pen with me. I had bought a mini cooler to keep the pen because it will stay cold/cool for over 10 hours. When I got to security at Heathrow my hand luggage, where the cooler was, kept beeping as it went through the x-ray machine. So we...

I wrote a letter to the editor about an article I read about and it was published. They then gave the author of the article a chance to reply and I got angrier and wanted to respond to her biased and patronising reply. I didn't. And I also didn't get the book they said they would send for a...

I love it and am so glad that I can get it here. I used to stock up with it when I visited my family in New Jersey. I just regret that we aren't offered money off coupons as the Americans are.

Hi! I think as veggies we normally eat low carb as long as we stay away from pasta and bread, hard to do sometimes. Have you tried Dreamfields pasta? It's a good carb for us diabetics and once a week makes it taste even better. I do a lot of stir fries during the summer. I've realised that...