I have been diagnosed diabetic for 10 years, but my Dr's just seem to
want to give me drugs instead of information. I gave up on testing
because my fingers were so sore. I do take the drugs on schedule and
normally avoid obvious sugars. I have found that carbs (pasta and bread

"A report released today by the Yale Schools of Public Health and
Medicine reveals that if the healthcare system in the US continues to
fail in adequately preventing and treating diabetes, by the year 2025
the number of people dying and suffering from diabetes and its

What is going on?
TWO reports today of a doctor saying it would be *illegal* to prescribe more
than some measly number of strips.
????

I'm T2. REALLY working on my Diabetes right now .
In 2 months I have gone from 2000mg Glucoph. to 500-1000.
( mostly proT. meals, more exerC )
Will I be able to tolerate lower BG as I get "better" ?

If you read my last post, I finally conned the endo into letting my daughter
try metformin for 2 months, well,
she's only taken it now for 2 days and she's already starting to get low.
I didn't test her premeal. But wait... (lol I feel like Bob Barker)  theres

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1243
rationale to ban thimerosal (mercury) in vaccines and to ban aspartame
(methanol, formaldehyde), speech from Kenneth P Stoller, MD

Before I began taking Avandamet, my BP was averaging 135/75. After about 5
or 6 weeks of taking Avandamet it has risen to about 170/88 and is the
systolic is sometimes over 200 in the morning after getting out of bed.
I take Nadalol - 120mg

So I just finished a Michael Jecks "medieval mystery" in which one of
the characters is a "temporary leper" cured with some wiz-bang herbal
brew.  The scenario was unlikely (thus the FICTION classification!)
but it started me wondering how many diabetics were condemned to leper

Has any T2  found these actually help? The aussie guy who runs the local
health food shop in Camberley is a T2 and swears by these. The label on the
Chromium Picollinate warns against taking them without medical advice if you
are a T2.

So it really only applies to those who are not doing Atkins properly.
Check out
http://tinyurl.com/dkzj3
Regards

I finally tried Splenda a few days ago.  I like it enough that we'll be
buying it instead of Nutrasweet.  I know some folks don't like it but my
wife and I get no aftertaste from it.
Dave

Hope everybody's been doing well. I've been away from the boards for a
while, and while I was gone, I see we've added another Pete or two, so
I am now signing in as Petey.
(I'm the Pete, Type 2, who was bragging on the 50 pounds lost, 4.9 A1c

I'm not criticising any nation here, I'm hoping that someone
reading this in both the US and the UK may have the ability
to start a lobbying operation.
The NIH statistics on diabetes have just been released. See

Just wondering what this means.  This is very unusual for me.  I've had
diabetes for twenty years.  Even a multi-vitamin doesn't put color back in
the urine.  It's very light yellow.

I brought a pedimeter today prior to a walk.
A nice digital one with a memory.
It was packaged in spaceage, bomb proof plastic.
I walked 2 miles trying to get to the pedimeter.