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You got anmoyed with a child for not understanding?

But cancer is in a different category isn't t? Yes people can die from diabetes but it is still much more possiible to manage the condition well than it is to 'manage' cancer.

To be honest no question about my diabetes annoy me. Why dhould we expect our friends and colleagues to know anything about diabetes? I'd far rather they asked me questions than feel too awkward to raise the subject. People need to be less sensitive and easily offended.

But in this case I'm not sure whether a GP had actually reviewed the result before my first call. The advice at the end of my first call was to ring back to speak to the 'results team' but this turned out to someone else from the practice staff rather than a GP, and even they initially referred...

Yes it was a receptionist I originally spoke to, and I don't blame her for simply reading the interpretation that the system gave to the score. What does concern me is, if a score of 32 may or may not be normal for someone with diabetes, why the system flags it purely as 'normal' rather than...

Just to update on the outcome of this. On the back of my result being a score of 32, ny GP arranged a second HbA1c test and said he would adjust my medication downwards if it came out at a similar level. When I rang my GP practice for the result, I was told it was 'normal' and I had to ask for...

I was moved from Gliclazide and Metformin onto Alogliptin last year, mainly because of the hypos I'd been experiencing. However, since then I've also been doing Slimming World and have lost over 2 stone, so it's hard to be sure whether it's the change in medication or the weight loss that is...

I have type 2 diabetes. As I understand it, although a HbA1c level of 32 would be normal for a person without diabetes, a level of 48 would be more usual for someone with diabetes. On my most recent HbA1c test I have come out with a level of 32. Given this is normal for someone without diabetes...