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<blockquote data-quote="ann34+" data-source="post: 1619735" data-attributes="member: 94348"><p>I imagine you are unlikely to have problems yet. it is when you are a long term type one, hopefully with no problems re diabetes, keeping careful control - GPs may ask why you need the number of strips, you are doing well, no sign of diabetes probs, whats the problem? etc, makes no sense as everything is a fine balance, and needs a lot of effort every day, but that sort of thing was said in the past. Hopefully not now. Though if you look back on the forum, there have been times quite recently these issues have come up - i remember 2006 was a bad year, Diab uk helped things nationally then, i had to move GPs, it is destabilising when this happens. 2013 was another year i had troubles, and needed a consultant letter to sort, i recall there was a dept of health letter to GPs then reminding them of how serious Type one was. </p><p>Insulin was very cheap, i could walk in to a shop and buy it for £7 a vial in an emergency, on holiday - you cant do that now anyway. It is expensive to the NHS, more expensive in the USA. Urine strips were cheap also, but many blood test strips/Libre etc are not, Diabetes is more of an industry. In the States it's worrying for type ones at the moment, i worry that this could slowly come here, see various US blogs - also see Laura Marston </p><p><a href="http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/11/14/laura-marston-the-growing-price-tag-put-on-the-lives-of-patients-with-type-1-diabetes/" target="_blank">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/11/14/laura-marston-the-growing-price-tag-put-on-the-lives-of-patients-with-type-1-diabetes/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ann34+, post: 1619735, member: 94348"] I imagine you are unlikely to have problems yet. it is when you are a long term type one, hopefully with no problems re diabetes, keeping careful control - GPs may ask why you need the number of strips, you are doing well, no sign of diabetes probs, whats the problem? etc, makes no sense as everything is a fine balance, and needs a lot of effort every day, but that sort of thing was said in the past. Hopefully not now. Though if you look back on the forum, there have been times quite recently these issues have come up - i remember 2006 was a bad year, Diab uk helped things nationally then, i had to move GPs, it is destabilising when this happens. 2013 was another year i had troubles, and needed a consultant letter to sort, i recall there was a dept of health letter to GPs then reminding them of how serious Type one was. Insulin was very cheap, i could walk in to a shop and buy it for £7 a vial in an emergency, on holiday - you cant do that now anyway. It is expensive to the NHS, more expensive in the USA. Urine strips were cheap also, but many blood test strips/Libre etc are not, Diabetes is more of an industry. In the States it's worrying for type ones at the moment, i worry that this could slowly come here, see various US blogs - also see Laura Marston [URL]http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/11/14/laura-marston-the-growing-price-tag-put-on-the-lives-of-patients-with-type-1-diabetes/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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