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Agree with pinkjude. Hiatus hernia will give you many of the symptoms you’ve experienced. James Arthur concert likely responsible for ear pain. Gaviscon is brilliant for relief of gastric symptoms. If it works you can buy boxes of sachets to carry about with you.

I’ve been using Trulicity 1.5ml since October 2020. I’m type 2 and take insulin. I’ve lost around 2st/28lb. I don’t feel hungry very often and feel full after small portions. Also reduced carb intake esp Potato, White Rice, Bread and pasta. BG readings are really good and stable. I recommend...

I get a B12 injection every ten weeks and by the time I’m getting to around six weeks in I experience all the side effects of B12 deficiency. I recently started taking a tablet each day because I suffered nasal haemorrhaging for around seven days just before Christmas, and this made me feel...

Hello Margo. There is a brilliant book called Carbs and Cals which you can buy from Diabetes Uk or Amazon. You can see what the carbs count is for most popular foods. You can then weigh your carb portion and discover how many are in your meal. Also get into the habit of checking carb count on...

Fantastic story and very motivating . I was diagnosed 15years ago with diabetes T2, and was immediately put on Metformin and glicklizide. I was moved to insulin regime in November 2017. My specialist DN and dietitian saw me regularly or phoned me to check how my readings were in the first...

I always measure my pasta and rice and other carbs before cooking in order to calculate carbs for insulin. I also calculate and factor in carbs from milk and flour for sauces and any other carb food. This figure is then divided by, in my case, 2 for me and hubby. That gives me my CHO...

Absolutely understand. I tried Excercise and reducing sugars and so on and so on. Sadly, after 15years on tablets my pancreas just doesn’t produce enough insulin to cope with blood glucose. If I can avoid any trace of carbs for a couple of meals then I occasionally get a low bg reading but...

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I was started on Novorapid and Lantus in November. I was taking too much novorapid (16Units) at each meal. The insulin is looking for food and my DN and the dietician tell me that is why I was so hungry between meals. I now have to work out exactly how many carbs I’m going to eat and then take...

I've been taking this drug for a couple of months. I also inject with insulin Humulin 1. I came off the Metformin I've been on for 14years because I was getting terrible pains which felt like angina. The Metformin can cause stomach problems such like this as well as B12 deficiency. I've not...

My granny born in 1900 had T2 diabetes for many years. Back in the 80's when she was in her 80's she was being looked after by an NHS community podiatrist who made home visits. Gran had developed a sore on her foot. The podiatrist never had this investigated until gran had full blown gangrene...

Your story is great. I reduced my carbs because I was having to stop Metformin and relying on my Insulin to control my BS. I'm now taking another drug instead of Metformin but have now been able to half my Insulin. I decided to stick with low carbs diet and feel so well and BS readings are...

What I've discovered after 14 years as a diabetic T2 is that GP's don't know that much about diabetes. It's a specialist subject really. I've been on Metformin since diagnosis 2 pills twice a day. A few years ago I started getting strange systems such as swelling and sore tongue, body out of...

I attend a diabetic clinic at an Edinburgh hospital and get an annual eye check up at the hospital by a technician from the Edinburgh Eye clinic. I also go to my regular optician, it was Dolland&Aitchison but was taken over by Boots, for an annual eye test and the screening does everything the...

For anyone who finds they have memory loss, weakness in the limbs and exhaustion, I suffered all these symptoms. I also knew that blood test results were coming back as borderline anaemic and b12 deficient. after some research I discovered that long term use of metformin affects the ability...