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Message: <blockquote data-quote="justfoundout" data-source="post: 132469" data-attributes="member: 24766">DazGI'm sitting here gob smacked that your treatment has been appalling. Get yourself another appointment or better still a referral to the main diabetic team of your PCT. You need to get the team to give you a meter so that you can test your sugars before and after meals. You need to understand what different foods are doing to your levels so you know what foods to limit or avoid.Someone will pop up and give more detail. Have you had a Hba1c test? Has your nurse scheduled you in for an eye scan? Have they checked your feet?Be demanding and polite. I have found that by educating myself on this site and elsewhere has helped me work through the maze of the NHS. Spend as much time as you can finding out about diabetes. Control it rather than let it control you.It was pains similar to what you describe that led me to my gp and the eventual diabetes diagnosis. I have taken the low carb and exercise route (no drugs yet) and the pains have all but gone. What is left is due to a compressed nerve in my elbow hich the neurologist says will improve if I stop leaning on it (not everything then is about diabetes!). The tingling has gone and it's great to feel healthy again. This forum is an invaluable tool. Once you have read you will no doubt have a host of questions and the wonderful folk here are very generous with their knowledge. M</blockquote>

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