Lamont D
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- Type of diabetes
- Reactive hypoglycemia
- Treatment type
- I do not have diabetes
Thank you to everyone who responded to this thread, and to Ian for making it a sticky thread.
I'm using some of the examples in an email to the appropriate people and will report back on how I get on.
In the meantime, do please continue to post here if you have been told not to test, and whatever variant of 'it will make you depressed/it will hurt your fingers/you will get an infection/it doesn't work/etc' you were told by HCPs.
I would like to put my tuppence worth in even though I'm not diabetic.
Testing for my condition is so important that I go through approx 4-6 a day, even though according to my consultant it should be every time I eat. Before and two hours later, obviously to gain control of my condition and to feel well.
The need for information is integral to how my meds are working and if I am low carbing enough.
When I eat, everything I eat except protein turns to glucose (sugar) in my blood at different rates. If I'm not in control my BSLs spike(hyper) then if I don't eat again I hypo. Then subsequently I yo-yo. Up and down till I fast. What my testing does is make me aware of my BSLs in relation to what I eat.
My GP was happy to provide test strips by prescription until he was informed I had RH. However because of the lastest cost cutting(and that's all it is, Tories!!!) until having a conversation with him! It is now on my prescription for RH, he's covering his back!
The wife has T2. She has been refused a meter! At a recent appointment she was advised to go low carb, so I asked how would she know what her BSLs are if she couldn't have a meter. The usual rubbish was spoken! She uses mine!
What I don't get is. If my condition mimics T2 diabetes, and it is essential that I low carb and monitor and be in control, why isn't it absolutely necessary for all us to test and experiment and be in control?
The cost to the country is really out of control to satisfy political agenda.
The logical solution is education.
Every diabetic should be given classes in how to achieve a healthier lifestyle and give them the information necessay to achieve this. If we are to have a health service then it should concentrate on the patients needs and wants. And what works for the majority of diabetics.