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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Solaire" data-source="post: 1668255" data-attributes="member: 465318"><p>My husband was diagnosed 10 years ago, type 2, through a general urine sample for something else. He got a phone call to go to one of the walk ins straight away. Went, saw the doc and was told his glucose reading was 26 (mmol) he was in good health, very slim and was a bit surprised as he had no idea ...however his grandmother and mother had both been diabetic ...straight into metformin and diet checked and that was fine ..over the next few years he was getting sooo thin and I went with him to see our doc and told her “look at him, these tablets are killing him” ....I had also discovered that metformin was used in obesity she was very interested and dropped the amount of metformin and gave him glictizide ...after couple of weeks we noticed his eyes were becoming very bloodshot and a couple days later very bad, all over the whites. He went to the eye Hospital near us where the doc said it was the glictizide and stop immediately ..that worked ...doc then gave him glimipiride 3 times a day with metformin twice a day ....he regained the weight he had lost and more energy thank goodness ...our doctor is excellent. He always has higher levels that normal because he is on lifetime steroids (long story) and they keep the levels up so she is happy if his readings don’t go above 10 ..that is ok for him ..but we also have nursing practitioners who unfortunately are rubbish ..he now doesn’t follow their advise after explaining to his doc what the nurses, and the diabetic nurse wanted him to do and she said don’t listen to them ....sorry for long story ...but here in UK we often find that those of us who have diabetes, or care for one, end up educating ourselves and know more than the professionals ...</p></blockquote><p></p>

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