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<blockquote data-quote="spaboy001" data-source="post: 7334" data-attributes="member: 6904"><p>Hello folks and fellow sufferers I have been diagnosed as type 2 for about 2 years controlled by 3 x 500 mg Metformin, no adverse side effects, would like to tell you about some drug trials i am on with Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Surrey University under Professor Nicholson in Diabetic Nuropathy. Now I had never heard of this problem from my GP ,nurse etc. It was only after some research into Diabetes in America that I was told about Vitamin D which I took prior to my reading about the trials in the Bournemoth Daily Echo. So along I went with great trpidation as we all do to meet my Nurse Hannah and Dr Ravi at the Diabetic Clinic, well I need not have been they were kindness personified, Dr Ravi was perplexed about my self treatment with vitamin D which i do not recommend,(see your GP first please) I was chatted too by both and asked to return later for a long medical to see if i was a suitable subject.Then I got the Ok and I was in. I had to stop using the vitamin D so back came the pains in my feet again I was crippled again with pain, but off I went to meet the others in our group at RBH with Nurse Hannah and Dr Ravi, well they were great putting us at ease and dishing out the pills we were to take. We were told when to report back for transport to Surrey University. So we all assembled, a motley crew, in the Diabetic clinic on the Tuesday at 14.00 and off we went by mini bus with Nurse Hannah. We arrived at the CRC, Clinical Research Centre at Surrey University by the nicest Nurses i have ever met in my life, we were shown to our cabins, metal rooms, no noise to interfer with our sleep etc. then back to the lounge for a general chat about the do's and dont's, then we had a probe inserted into our tums to watch our sugars 24/7 this was in addition to the accu watches we were already wearing. Blood sugars taken, temperatures taken, by this time it was time for diner.The food was fab as were all the staff. Then well we fell about laughing as wew were told we were to be wired up to computers all night long, well we all changed into our pj's and the boffins came into start glueing these electrodes to our heads, arms, legs, middles,chests etc. we looked like something from Dr Who. Under data protection laws I am not allowed to say anything about my friends on the trials with me, but lets just say we all looked at each other and fell about laughing, we looked a sight. However if it helped others so beit we would go ahead with it. Eventually it was time to take our pills and we all sat at the table in the lounge and all took them together and drank our water etc and off we went to bed to be connected to our boxes to the computers. well we had a good laugh(in the morning)after various instructions we tried to sleep, by the way no lights on during the night no tele in our romms and if we needed the loo we had to call the nurses via the button all good fun .Then it was morning on went the lights and a wakey wakey call.then it was time for breakfast, blood test temperatures followed by tests tests lunch etc so on and so on. If you realy want to know more please ask and I will tell you.</p><p>Well by the first morning I was no longer in pain I could walk again without pain and my hands were straight instead of being like tight fists, and my toes were warm.Since then i have gone on to amaze the staff at the CRC and I hope it will continue for the rest of my life this is my second chance a big thank you to all the staff and nurses at the CRC at Surrey University and a big kiss to Hannah for taking me on to these trials and a big thank you to Dr Ravi for accepting me onto the programme. I shall be sorry when the trials are over however we have all agreed to stay in touch and continue to bounce ideas off each other.</p><p></p><p>I am so much better my moods are no longer dark one, my temper is better than its been for years and I am no longer upsetting my long suffering wife Jean nor my two children Caroline 17 and Becky 13, and I feel 30 years younger than my real age of 61. So please dont suffer pain in sl#ilence as iI did go to your GP and tell them or your diabetic Nurse and get help before it is too late.</p><p>Peter hammerton Christchurch Dorset.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spaboy001, post: 7334, member: 6904"] Hello folks and fellow sufferers I have been diagnosed as type 2 for about 2 years controlled by 3 x 500 mg Metformin, no adverse side effects, would like to tell you about some drug trials i am on with Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Surrey University under Professor Nicholson in Diabetic Nuropathy. Now I had never heard of this problem from my GP ,nurse etc. It was only after some research into Diabetes in America that I was told about Vitamin D which I took prior to my reading about the trials in the Bournemoth Daily Echo. So along I went with great trpidation as we all do to meet my Nurse Hannah and Dr Ravi at the Diabetic Clinic, well I need not have been they were kindness personified, Dr Ravi was perplexed about my self treatment with vitamin D which i do not recommend,(see your GP first please) I was chatted too by both and asked to return later for a long medical to see if i was a suitable subject.Then I got the Ok and I was in. I had to stop using the vitamin D so back came the pains in my feet again I was crippled again with pain, but off I went to meet the others in our group at RBH with Nurse Hannah and Dr Ravi, well they were great putting us at ease and dishing out the pills we were to take. We were told when to report back for transport to Surrey University. So we all assembled, a motley crew, in the Diabetic clinic on the Tuesday at 14.00 and off we went by mini bus with Nurse Hannah. We arrived at the CRC, Clinical Research Centre at Surrey University by the nicest Nurses i have ever met in my life, we were shown to our cabins, metal rooms, no noise to interfer with our sleep etc. then back to the lounge for a general chat about the do's and dont's, then we had a probe inserted into our tums to watch our sugars 24/7 this was in addition to the accu watches we were already wearing. Blood sugars taken, temperatures taken, by this time it was time for diner.The food was fab as were all the staff. Then well we fell about laughing as wew were told we were to be wired up to computers all night long, well we all changed into our pj's and the boffins came into start glueing these electrodes to our heads, arms, legs, middles,chests etc. we looked like something from Dr Who. Under data protection laws I am not allowed to say anything about my friends on the trials with me, but lets just say we all looked at each other and fell about laughing, we looked a sight. However if it helped others so beit we would go ahead with it. Eventually it was time to take our pills and we all sat at the table in the lounge and all took them together and drank our water etc and off we went to bed to be connected to our boxes to the computers. well we had a good laugh(in the morning)after various instructions we tried to sleep, by the way no lights on during the night no tele in our romms and if we needed the loo we had to call the nurses via the button all good fun .Then it was morning on went the lights and a wakey wakey call.then it was time for breakfast, blood test temperatures followed by tests tests lunch etc so on and so on. If you realy want to know more please ask and I will tell you. Well by the first morning I was no longer in pain I could walk again without pain and my hands were straight instead of being like tight fists, and my toes were warm.Since then i have gone on to amaze the staff at the CRC and I hope it will continue for the rest of my life this is my second chance a big thank you to all the staff and nurses at the CRC at Surrey University and a big kiss to Hannah for taking me on to these trials and a big thank you to Dr Ravi for accepting me onto the programme. I shall be sorry when the trials are over however we have all agreed to stay in touch and continue to bounce ideas off each other. I am so much better my moods are no longer dark one, my temper is better than its been for years and I am no longer upsetting my long suffering wife Jean nor my two children Caroline 17 and Becky 13, and I feel 30 years younger than my real age of 61. So please dont suffer pain in sl#ilence as iI did go to your GP and tell them or your diabetic Nurse and get help before it is too late. Peter hammerton Christchurch Dorset. [/QUOTE]
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