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1st December is World AIDS Day, and here's some useful links as HIV/AIDS does not discriminate (like diabetes) and the good news is that self-testing kits, safer sex contraception, sexual health screening, preventative prescription drugs like PrEP+PEP and anti-retroviral HIV drugs which can put...

hello everyone. I don't post often but I'd love to know that I am not alone with this. I've been feeling really tired the last couple of months, spoke to my diabetes nurse (only ever by phone, I can never seem to get a face to face appointment with her, which is one of my frustrations), she said...

Hi all, I am a woman aged 50, just recently had bloods taken as multiple health symptoms not necessarily diabetes related. But drs just called to have me make another appointment as blood glucose increased to retest. If I’m honest I’ve been worried for some time and dreading having to deal...

Hi my three year old over last four days is asking for drink excessively. Like past two nights she has drank 40oz of juice. She keeps crying she is thirsty too. I have noticed her behaviour has changed and is just being hyperactive and hitting people for no reason etc. i went to the doctors and...

A search of DUK and this Forum in particular did not reveal what I am looking for, i.e., thoughts/comparisons between BG Meters and GSMs, and comparisons between different makes of GSMs. If you know differently please inform me. I admit that about 10-12 years ago, and AFAIK not suffering from...

After 10 years with Type 2 keeping at or below the medication threshold by diet and exercise my HbA1C results indicated medication was required and I agreed to start Metformin 500mg a day. My Metformin journey starts here... Before starting Metformin, I re-started finger-prick blood glucose...

hello all, Firstly thanks for all the great advice on the boards - I was diagnosed with diabetes in July and I have been reading lots of good posts to help me. I have been on a low carb diet for a month now and I think my levels are looking pretty good, but my testing has noted I rarely seem...

I was just checking my updated Amazon app, and it suggested several testing meters that looked interesting. While the meters aren't quite as cheap as the SD Code Free, the strips are less than £15 - £20 I keep hearing about. The listings for strips include lancets as well, which £8 Code Free...

Hello! I’m newly-diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic and still getting my head round what that means and how I can adjust my lifestyle/diet etc to improve my health. I had 1 conversation with the diabetic nurse before I had to go abroad for work - I won’t get back to the UK now until July so I feel...

Welcome to the 'Diabetes in School' Board Getting the right care in school to support the management of diabetes can be challenging. The ‘Diabetes in School’ board is the place for parents or anyone else, to ask questions about getting the best care in school and ultimately getting an adequate...

First of all I would like to say hello... I am a 45yo chap and was diagnosed with Type 2 around the beginning of March. I, like I presume, many others on diagnosis sat light a rabbit in the headlights in the GP’s room when listening to my blood results and beginning the first day of my new...

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/506/308/883/get-the-freestyle-libre-on-the-nhs/ Please copy and paste the link above into your search bar and Support my petition to get The 'Abbott Freestyle Libre' Sensors to be available on the NHS and to be prescribed by GP's all over the country...

Plucked up the courage to do my first testing of blood glucose levels. After two hours from eating a piece of toast and jam. 6.9mmol. So that's good! No spike! Decided I can afford to test three times a day. So will select when to test after certain meals and once I know that certain meals...

Just wondering how many times to test my blood glucose levels? I tend to be nocturnal, up during the night time and sleeping during the daytime. Do I test on awakening and then, two hours after breakfast? I have been told that I have good diabetes type 2 control, so is testing twice a day...

had to attend a meeting with a psychiatrist yesterday. I had requested that the depot they give me be reduced because it was making me tired and my legs stiff which was hampering my attempts at exercising which I need to do because I have a number of serious conditions that need to be kept under...

Hi all, Thanks for all your help with finding a meter and how to check my blood sugar levels. I'm now not needing to test quite so often because I've found a lot of foods that work and keep my BG at a reasonable level. I mostly test when I'm not sure what effect a meal will have; I know that...

Lots of people on the forum helpfully shared their experience of restrictions on test strips over the past couple of weeks, and I really wanted to thank you all as it's been a great help as we put together the Diabetes UK 'Testing Times' campaign on fair access to test strips. The campaign is...

hi, I'm currently trying to work out my Levemir basal split doses, since moving from 1 lantus injection last week. I think I have cracked the before bed does at 10 units at 10 am.... today I tried 12 units this morning and fasted from 6am to 12pm, my BS rose from 4.6 to 8.... do I just keep...

It's been mentioned here a couple of times that when you're in A&E they're supposed to test your BG. I'm there now (nose bleed for over half an hour, GP practice said to come), seen nurse. BP and temperature (both ears?) taken. No sigh of BG being taken. I did mention I hadn't tested and had no...

Evening all, my wife, who is also Type 2 and taking Gliclazide was told she did not need to test, this was about a year ago. Then one of her friends, also type 2, said her GP had told her that all type 2 people on Gliclazide should test regularly to avoid hypos. So today, my wife goes for her...