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Last updated: October 2018

Taking CoQ10

After seeing many benefits after taking CoQ10 during an Ataxia UK trial when I was 17 I continued to take them. I saw improvements in my speech, fatigue and general coordination and as well as this my heart condition has remained very mild. I very sadly had to stop taking it when I was diagnosed with diabetes as it raised my blood sugar. However I am hoping this problem is specific to the brand of CoQ10 I was taking as I spoke to another brand called Pharma Nord who said "the British JournalĀ piece on Ubiquinone Q10 and diabetes pointed to a number of different clinical studies which showed how Type 2 diabetes sufferers who took Ubiquinone Q10 supplements of between 100mg and 200mg a day over a two to three-month period saw their conditions improve." (see https://www.pharmanord.co.uk/news/in-the-news/supplement-can-help-manage-type-2-diabetes for more). So in September 2018 I was excited to give them another shot - watch this spaceā€¦

 

This website has been around sinse 1998, and although it's changed a lot over the years it's always been about me and my disability. Over the years I have used many different hosts and website design packages. For the past ten years or so I have used 1&1 as my host and I have always been very happy with it. I have always wanted to learn how to build a website from scratch using Adobe Dreamweaver, so about three years ago I got in touch with Polar Solutions and arranged for a trainer to come out to my home to teach me at my own pace. So I now design this website using Adobe Dreamweaver and the skills I learned on that course. I designed the buttons using Cool Text.