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    Thoughts on new diagnosis

    Hi Vashti how are you? I see your treatment type is diet only. I am newly diagnosed with Type 2 and on oral meds and finger pricking 4 times a day. Family history of diabetes so I guess that it was sort of handed down. I retire from work next year and the access to medicine, testing kits etc...
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    Essential tremor and difficulties using a strip glucose meter.

    Thanks Elena. I live in Qatar and was given a One Touch Verio Reflect machine with a separate lancet. I use the lancet 4 times a day, with a new lancet for each time so in a drum of six lancets is still every 2 days. There are so many machines on the marketplace and they are all slightly...
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    Essential tremor and difficulties using a strip glucose meter.

    I completely understand your issue, and the manufacturers of these machines need to be told that their machines need to be designed for ease of use more than just having larger displays or read out your result. My father had a stroke and was diabetic and couldn't insert the test strips, or even...
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