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Sounds like you've got caught in a vicious circle with it all...... Get them to change you off the Novorapid, then you'll find that the lightheaded feeling stops. You'll not get such sudden low blood sugars either which will re-boost your confidence in getting out and about again, which will help the weight come off so you can get shot of the other pills...... And don't think of diabetes as an 'illness' or a 'handicap' - once you get it sorted its a nuisance, but its perfectly livable with without it messing your life up. Good luck with it all, and keep onto them to change you

I meant to ask about Novorapid - its vicious! They changed me to it and it was absolutely brutal - I put myself back on what I was taking before. A friends son was changed to that one and she got him back off it too. Novorapid also has a warning (in very small print) that it can cause light-headedness etc. Gave me full-blown palpitations, increased heart rate etc - get them to get you off it for something else quick! Can't see why going on insulin would cause weight gain, and once the doctors start giving you pills for this, that and the other your system ends up in right scramble..

Hi countrymaid - I've been diabetic the last 40+ years......sort of came to a negotiated compromise with it! Different people are on different set-ups for controlling it and I'm not what the doctors would call a 'good' diabetic but I'm healthy and active and have always got on with my life. Have you got any control over what insulin dosage you are on as if you keep going hypo it sounds like you're on more than you need considering you're an active person? The blood testing is a bit of a hassle, but its also the very best tool you've got for keeping track of things A few things

Yes, both hands were getting really painful, and I refused to ease up working (gardening and finishing off house-building at my place). End result: No choice but off work, down to 60% hand use for a year or so, couldn't work 'cos they hurt like **** and wouldn't bend.....couldn't even do basic things like tie boot-laces or turn door-knobs...... Really scary as I didn't know whether I'd get the use of them back, fortunately they were ok again after a couple years. Worst of it was I couldn't even hold a cup of tea first thing in the morning! You really do need to take time off before the

Sorry - I looked at Rolfe's photos too quick and they looked like one of those grassy miscanthus things.....I think I'm due for a new pair of glasses.....

Err, looks like two different plants getting called by the same name....... Wikipedia: Rapeseed / Oil-seed Rape

Does it look more like this..... Oil-seed Rape

Err, thats not Rape - looks like one of those grassy bio-fuel ones...

Can you mark the photos 1 2 3 or A B C or something as you post them or I'll make a right muddle with which name goes with which photo ....

Fire away with photos and I'll try and give you IDs.......it might give you more ammo with the conservation crowd if you can say theres this that and the other growing there......... Good luck - the whole world is gonna end up covered in concrete and roads and houses the rate things are going.....

Hi tallyho - it looks like Yellow Corydalis - a garden escaper that'll often grow in cracks in walls

Yes. I'd be one of those 'fence-sitters' and thats the reason I joined, to get a better idea of the pro/anti argument....... There are plenty go out round here with guns and dogs, most of them are sound, but some are twats like the eejits who were firing shots across the garden where I lived when my kids were growing up........ Yes.

Just seen the first one for this year!

Not seen any here in SW Cork yet.....

Congrats from me too, I got grannied six years back - they start out tiny and don't half grow fast!