Thats ok I appreciate you may want to know. However as I said once you know theres nothing you can do about it other than worry. Not sure where you are but test strips can be an expensive hobby. The HBA1C is a minimal cost item to the NHS if you are in the UK and if you have concerns about the frequency discuss it with your doctor/DSN
For people with T2, especially when newly diagnosed, testing with a meter is a great way to be able to monitor how food consumed affects our blood glucose levels. We don’t need to wait and worry until the next HbA1c test to be able to take action for ourselves to tweak our diets, and take control. Plenty can be done by the individual, rather than depending on HCPs to advise following (if we are lucky) thevtwice yearly, possibly only annual reviews.
Unfortunately, NHS guidelines for us not to test have, seemingly, been made due to the cost of precribing the test strips. This is why so many of our members with T2 are proctive and self fund the meters and strips. The advice given by
@Rachox is sound advice on economical way to afford this. After monitoring for a few months many of us can reduce the use of the meter, as we have determined which foods and drinks are causing the spikes.