How Well can help you manage your diabetes

Diabetes is an illness caused by your body not producing enough insulin to regulate your blood sugar levels.

There are two kinds of diabetes. Type 1, the less common variant, occurs when the body’s immune system destroys the cells which produce insulin. Around 90% of people with diabetes in the UK have type 2. This is where the pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin or the body doesn’t react to insulin, meaning blood sugar levels are unmoderated.

Symptoms of diabetes

Although many people live with type 2 diabetes for years without realising, type 1 diabetes can develop quickly over days or weeks. If you experience the most prominent symptoms of diabetes, speak to your GP. These include:

• Feeling very thirsty, and peeing more than usual
• Weight loss
• Feeling much more tired than usual
• Cuts healing much slower than usual
• Blurred vision

Type 1 diabetes cannot be prevented, but lifestyle changes can prevent your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. You can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by eating healthily and taking regular exercise.

Living with diabetes

If you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, you may need to make some lifestyle changes. Eating healthily, taking regular exercise and having regular blood tests to check your glucose (blood sugar) levels are all important pillars in managing the illness.

If you have type 1 diabetes, you’ll need regular insulin injections for life.

The medicine required to treat type 2 diabetes depends on how far the illness has progressed. At first, this medicine will medicine will usually be a tablet.

Managing diabetes with medications

To make sure you never miss a dose, why not get your repeat prescription delivered to your door? Well’s online prescription delivery service means you no longer have to worry about collecting your repeat prescription from a pharmacy.

You can either download the app or use the service through our website. Tell us which medicines you take, then we send the request to your GP for approval. Once it’s been approved, we ask you to pay for your prescription or provide proof of your exemption. Then our pharmacy team will dispense, check and send your medication in a discreet package.