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If someone diabetic gets a liver and kidney failure, can their blood sugar still increase and go into a coma if they forget to take their insulin injection and/or eat too much sugar?
Wish me luck. Having chat with mental health nurse (at gp) re husband. Husb constantly angry, drinking too much (seriously a LOT - badly *** every night. won’t be tactile at all and he has zero...
Have taken delivery of the ones you recommended, today, and we’ve both taken one after our evening meal. Trouble is, we’ve sat in the garden all afternoon imbibing a fair few G&Ts so tonight isn’t...
Thank you for your reply. Please excuse me that my response to you has been slow. To answer your question, I am in Toronto, Canada. I have very strong reasons to believe I have a sister that I learned...
I posted here a few weeks ago that I had a chest infection and was prescribed antibiotics and steroids. Then I posted how I felt the hot weather was really getting me down, feeling constantly tired...
On the 16th June I put a post on regarding X-Rays, my husband had just been referred to the hospital by his doctor, she said the radiologist might not allow them ,I was amazed as I thought the doctors...
Hi, I don’t know if this is the right place to ask but I’ll give it a shot. For the past two or so weeks I’ve really been struggling to breathe properly. I become really breathless but it’s hard to...
Hi, anyone have a fairly simply way of explaining what this would mean on an ECG? Though I'm guessing the nonspecific bit is, well, nonspecific!! But generally. The ECG was marked as abnormal, it said...
I suddenly seemed to have developed a variant of hayfever in my twilight years this year despite having never suffered from hayfever before. I've got no nasal symptoms but my eyes feel like they have...
i was on gabapentin for about 5 months, and i stopped because of the side effects - one of which was muscle twitching, it was like one sudden jerk, mostly of my arms/shoulders, but sometimes whole...
Result of CT scan. because of uncontrolled blood sugar, fatty deposits on heart, liver. Dark shadow on X-ray, assumed to be fatty tissue. Year long cough. Unknown cause. Breathlessness unknown,...
Every year that passes I seem to become more intolerant to hot weather. All week I have felt like a wet lettuce, no energy and really really tired. Some days I can't even be bothered to eat although I...
Felt unwell for a few days - did two home tests which were both positive, so was told to go to a test centre, which he did and that was also positive. : (
I recently took an antibody test out of interest, to see if I had any antibodies from my vaccines. My result was 56. The lowest positive result is 0.8 and the highest is 2500. Has anybody else tried...
My sister has been invited to a 60th afternoons tea in a hall above a local pub. However the lady holding it has asked that everyone does a lateral flow test before they go Should she insist that...
I have just received the above, free, at my request, from my GP. A phone call to the surgery an hour ago, half an hour later the document was ready for collection. Very efficient. I needed some proof...