Diabetes (Type 2)
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Current topics:

• - Diabetes and the eyes: How do you care for your eyes?
  Hello everyone, How are you today? You may have heard that people with diabetes are at a heightened risk for eye complications, such as cataracts, glaucoma and retinopathy. Fortunately, with regul
• - Cataract surgery: What is the postoperative care like?
  I'll be having my cataract surgery next month. Has anyone been through this? How did it go? They told me about all the risks and I'm so worried something will not go as it should...
• - Stabilising your diabetes: Do you have any advice?
  Hello all, How are you today? What do you do, apart from your medicines, to control your diabetes (maintain a healthy diet, sport)? Is it effective? @Luisa1960‍ @Christinec‍ @Sussexguy‍ @Tra

Current topics:

• - Complications linked to diabetes
  Hello everyone, Unfortunately, diabetes can cause different complications to occur. This can manifest in different ways such as eye damage, kidney damage, pregnancy complications...Have you experienc
• - NIHR Type Two Remission
  https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/type-2-diabetes-can-be-reversed-with-a-modest-weight-loss-of-10-or-more/22246 Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with a modest weight loss of 10% or more Researchers at the Un
• - Sport and diabetes
  Hello I get very tired more and more often, I took up a bit more cycling recently but it was very hard and the slightest small hill was becoming very difficult How to exercise in this case? I don't

Current topics:

• - Empagliflozin (Jardiance) for type 2 diabetes: Experiences, opinions, advice
  Hi in addition to 2000mg of metformin the diabetic nurse I had an appointment with yesterday has prescribed empagliflozin, she wasn't happy that my glucose tolerance was 7 from recent bloods. The choi
• - Have you ever had side effects from metformin?
  Hi, does anyone have any experience with metformin? I am getting terrible side effects (diarrhoea, sorry) and thinking of trying something else to control my blood sugar levels. Can anyone recommend o
• - What do you think about your current diabetes treatment?
  Hi, What is your current treatment and what do you think about this treatment?

Current topics:

• - The low-glycaemic diet and diabetes
  Hello members, Have you ever heard of using the low-glycaemic diet ("low-GI diet") to control the symptoms of diabetes? The low-GI diet uses the glycaemic index to allow a patient to identify and eli
• - Diabetes
  I have done some extensive reading about what doctors in the U.S. have found Ok! some are out to make money so that you buy their products but I have listened to doctors who really have done their hom
• - Diabetes: Switching to common drugs raises risk of complications
  A new study, published in the journal BMJ, finds that switching to a class of drugs called sulfonylureas could raise the risk of complications for people living with type 2 diabetes. Researchers se

Current topics:

• - Living with diabetic nephropathy: How does it affect your daily life?
  In this discussion you can share your experience with diabetic nephropathy (a diabetes complication which affects kidneys). How does it affect your everyday life? How do you manage the disease? What
• - Diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy
  How were you diagnosed with diabetic nephropathy (a complication which affects kidneys)? Were you showing any symptoms before the diagnosis? Did it happen during a routine check-up? What tests did yo
• - Treatment for diabetic nephropathy
  Were you prescribed any treatment for your Diabetic nephropathy (a complication which affects kidneys)? If yes, what is this treatment? Do you feel it is helping you? Did you have a say in your trea