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<blockquote data-quote="Shecat" data-source="post: 1009920" data-attributes="member: 136170"><p>I had a life threatening experience while on no medication for my Diabetes and had no way of testing my blood sugar. I was walking my dogs on a Heath as usual and became drunk, staggered and draped myself over a metal fence to stop me hitting the ground. A fellow dog walker found me and saved my life by calling appropriate services, it was one week before Christmas 2007 and I required main line glucose from the Paramedics then hospital treatment for hypothermia. My dogs were looked after by he dog walker and returned home by Police for me, I've never been so grateful! Diabetes is unique to each person who has it as our bodies are different to each other so the treatment and maintenance required is unique. No Dr should laugh at you, I would have immediately torn verbal strips off of mine if he tried that then changed practice! What NICE actually says is you have to satisfy the reasons you need the test strips for so the GP standard question should have been "what do you do with your blood sugar readings"? You would have then gone on to either give your GP a reason to prescribe them or not satisfy them so not been given them!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shecat, post: 1009920, member: 136170"] I had a life threatening experience while on no medication for my Diabetes and had no way of testing my blood sugar. I was walking my dogs on a Heath as usual and became drunk, staggered and draped myself over a metal fence to stop me hitting the ground. A fellow dog walker found me and saved my life by calling appropriate services, it was one week before Christmas 2007 and I required main line glucose from the Paramedics then hospital treatment for hypothermia. My dogs were looked after by he dog walker and returned home by Police for me, I've never been so grateful! Diabetes is unique to each person who has it as our bodies are different to each other so the treatment and maintenance required is unique. No Dr should laugh at you, I would have immediately torn verbal strips off of mine if he tried that then changed practice! What NICE actually says is you have to satisfy the reasons you need the test strips for so the GP standard question should have been "what do you do with your blood sugar readings"? You would have then gone on to either give your GP a reason to prescribe them or not satisfy them so not been given them! [/QUOTE]
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