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<blockquote data-quote="Mommayorkie" data-source="post: 642792" data-attributes="member: 37348"><p>SOMEONE ABOVE SAID "on the negative side, the GP can "lose" any justification simply by objecting that testing is not in our best interests as it can be counter productive and cause depression and anxiety"..</p><p>I too am not allowed test strips. i use codefree which are cheapest i can find. but as costs of food/fuel etc keeps going up i dont know how long i can afford to buy those.At £7 for 50strips.(eBay).. they are much cheaper by half of any others ive seen.but i can only afford to use for FBS. which helps a little but doesn't help for rest of day and Hb1Ac being done only 3 monthly (in fact its more like 6 monthly here) is no help at all. it still doesn't tell you what your day to day results are.an average surely is not as good as a more accurate one taken 3-4 times a day. I am already depressed. no help from the surgery except to go on Metformin SR.AFTER steroids had sent my FBS soaring back end of last year.but had come back down to 7 again. (before that was between 3.5-5.5 on diet only)was ok on 1 but not 2. it started my IBS off.so back on 1 now.INS did stop after that. recently found my breathing getting worse (i have asthma/COPD).. found out my co-codamol could be to blame...i take those for spinal spondylosis...after 3 days without (with a good amount of pain because of no painkillers) my IBS started again. i no longer know what to eat. or do. confined to the house due to the IBS. seeing diabetic nurse but not till next friday. dare not leave the house because of the IBS and pain.... yes a lot of things going on there...but i feel that had i been given strips i could have controlled it better. and therefore controlled the IBS., so many things i cant eat due to the latter. low carbing made me feel ill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mommayorkie, post: 642792, member: 37348"] SOMEONE ABOVE SAID "on the negative side, the GP can "lose" any justification simply by objecting that testing is not in our best interests as it can be counter productive and cause depression and anxiety".. I too am not allowed test strips. i use codefree which are cheapest i can find. but as costs of food/fuel etc keeps going up i dont know how long i can afford to buy those.At £7 for 50strips.(eBay).. they are much cheaper by half of any others ive seen.but i can only afford to use for FBS. which helps a little but doesn't help for rest of day and Hb1Ac being done only 3 monthly (in fact its more like 6 monthly here) is no help at all. it still doesn't tell you what your day to day results are.an average surely is not as good as a more accurate one taken 3-4 times a day. I am already depressed. no help from the surgery except to go on Metformin SR.AFTER steroids had sent my FBS soaring back end of last year.but had come back down to 7 again. (before that was between 3.5-5.5 on diet only)was ok on 1 but not 2. it started my IBS off.so back on 1 now.INS did stop after that. recently found my breathing getting worse (i have asthma/COPD).. found out my co-codamol could be to blame...i take those for spinal spondylosis...after 3 days without (with a good amount of pain because of no painkillers) my IBS started again. i no longer know what to eat. or do. confined to the house due to the IBS. seeing diabetic nurse but not till next friday. dare not leave the house because of the IBS and pain.... yes a lot of things going on there...but i feel that had i been given strips i could have controlled it better. and therefore controlled the IBS., so many things i cant eat due to the latter. low carbing made me feel ill. [/QUOTE]
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