1. Brian: 'Don't leave it too late to act on weight'

   26/07/18

   Brian is in his 60s. He has type 2 diabetes. I was diagnosed at 50. I’ve always been overweight, ... diabetes was a factor in my stroke four and a half years ago. It has certainly caused erection problems and ... I recently had an HbA1c test and my blood sugar is still highish. It’s better when I’m losing weight but ... More

2. Paul: 'sometimes you need to be pushy'

   12/11/19

   I dug in my heels. The TV had talked about the risks once men reach 40. Once they agreed to the check, ... with confidence, I changed practice. I switched to a GP who was a specialist in diabetes. In fact I was ... telling me to raise my legs and next thing I’m waking up in the recovery room. It was tough being in ... More

3. Stranger Than A Talking Dog

   25/10/16

   a bloke with a woman’s disease. ‘I keep imagining what it would look like if they put it in the local rag’ ... Heyderman’s ‘Coping With Breast Cancer’ is one of the few books on the subject to discuss the condition in ... disease but men are more likely to wait before seeking treatment until the lump has broken through the ... More

4. Men without children

   10/07/16

   involuntarily childless man. I always expected to be a dad and there have been times in my life when becoming ... a working class area of Manchester, my parents could always close down any boundary-pushing request with the ... and angst I had with my partner. In my 40s, I changed career and trained as a counsellor. It was the ... More

5. Kevin: 'Get a health check'

   03/08/15

   Information like this helped me make changes in my lifestyle! Not only this. I was advised what type of food ... to avoid along with loads of other useful tips like to reduce my intake of both saturated fat and ... Haringey man Kevin says an NHS Health Check is easy. I'm in my early forties and to find out ... More

6. Men & Covid - 19: new lessons learned & the challenge of inequality

   22/06/20

   last webinar on Men & Covid-19 in April, we've learned a great deal about the impact of the ... and men in areas of deprivation. When we publicised our last webinar, we said that men were 50% more ... likely to die from COVID-19 than women. We now know that estimate was too low. What else have we learned? ... More

7. Bob: 'How Dr Who helped me to dance'

   03/06/14

   I did. A sense of not being good enough, regardless of my achievement in life, has always been a powerful ... in the eye and said “when I was a child my life was a nightmare of sexual abuse and violence in ... often without warning and always for minor or trivial things. She once hit me round the head with ... More

8. How's your pandemic?

   18/01/21

   it usually catches up with you in the end. But in the current situation created by covid-19 where ... we're at home far more and social distancing as much as possible, the time we spend alone with ourselves ... inside our heads is doubly important.  Stress and anxiety is normal, especially in uncertain times. ... More

9. Covid - 19: Honest communications

   04/05/20

   communicate directly with men with clear targeted age- and gender-sensitive information. We've even had ... Covid-19 video We've also challenged the UK's creatives in the advertising industtry and ... elsewhere to come up with ways to talk to men about Covid-19: Try our creative challenge: how can we ... More

10. Lee: 'Undiagnosed diabetes nearly killed me'

    25/07/18

    couldn't pee, I was constipated and screaming in agony. I went to my GP who diagnosed me with flu, and told ... started losing more weight, feeling very tired. I was always drinking water, my mouth was very dry, I was ... years of being unwell I was finally diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. I stayed in hospital for about three ... More

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