My thoughts on this is that as far as I am aware, type 2 diabetics who are controlled by oral med and diet are not prescribed teststrips. So, if type 2s are using insulin, why is this? What has gone wrong with controllong sugar levels for these people using the med that they have been prescribed? What has the surgery nurses told type 2s to eat diet wise? Its nowhere near good enough to just say cut back on sugar, when the real culprit is carbohydrate which breaks down to glucose and as such, increases weightgain. If better diet education was given in the first place, many type 2s would lose weight, lose insulin resistance and might be able to stop med. That would leave the prescribing of teststrips left to type 1s. Also, the companies responsible for the manufacture of teststrips are getting away with ripping the NHS off with the prices they charge and the government health ministers need to tackle this and not be fobbed off by being told that the revenue that is made gets ploughed back in to create better technology. Some of it does, but the rest goes into giving the managers a lovely lifestyle no doubt. No one should really object to using a bg meter that takes cheaper teststrips unless there is a need to carry on with the existing as that would then make most of the companies lose revenue and reduce prices.
