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<blockquote data-quote="ann34+" data-source="post: 815219" data-attributes="member: 94348"><p>Hi, Jeannie, all the best re your decision, it sounds like you may have decided that you are ok as you are, very interested that Scotland seems so different re diabetes funding, i wonder why....maybe Scottish doctors are better trained! .I do think that must be an issue, as.here it has got worse as i have got older - many doctors seem unaware that there are any older Type ones. i had major strip problems 9 years ago in another area, as the GP refused to believe i was Type one, then I got re-assigned GPs by PALS, but PALS is long gone now, and the complaints system is getting a lot of complaints! (the Patients Association had a recent petition re improving it). Then i moved and the strip thing came up a couple of years ago and again the GP refused to believe i was Type one, or to give me more than one box of strips, then insisted i amass a lot of evidence. After that he then refused to believe, as i had an HbA1c of 7% that i needed many strips! After enormous stress i got them, but was made to feel vey uncomfortable, with comments re their cost whenever i visited the GP, so i found another GP and all was well. But there were changes, and suddenly my strip use was being questioned by doctors i had never seen, now i hope sorted. Diabetes UK are well aware of what is happening in a lot of the country, and are trying their best - i am rejoining in support. Ann</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ann34+, post: 815219, member: 94348"] Hi, Jeannie, all the best re your decision, it sounds like you may have decided that you are ok as you are, very interested that Scotland seems so different re diabetes funding, i wonder why....maybe Scottish doctors are better trained! .I do think that must be an issue, as.here it has got worse as i have got older - many doctors seem unaware that there are any older Type ones. i had major strip problems 9 years ago in another area, as the GP refused to believe i was Type one, then I got re-assigned GPs by PALS, but PALS is long gone now, and the complaints system is getting a lot of complaints! (the Patients Association had a recent petition re improving it). Then i moved and the strip thing came up a couple of years ago and again the GP refused to believe i was Type one, or to give me more than one box of strips, then insisted i amass a lot of evidence. After that he then refused to believe, as i had an HbA1c of 7% that i needed many strips! After enormous stress i got them, but was made to feel vey uncomfortable, with comments re their cost whenever i visited the GP, so i found another GP and all was well. But there were changes, and suddenly my strip use was being questioned by doctors i had never seen, now i hope sorted. Diabetes UK are well aware of what is happening in a lot of the country, and are trying their best - i am rejoining in support. Ann [/QUOTE]
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