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Don’t know any U.K. pharmacy that is allowed to dispense individual pills in a bottle. All prescriptions must be supplied in sealed packets along with the appropriate leaflets, batch codes and dates.

I was trying to find the costs from their website as my GP will not entertain anything outside of my supplied Jazz meter and 25 strips a month, therefore I don’t bother with it and use my Code Free all of the time. Can you give me an idea of the self funded cost please.

I found a very similar problem. My code free has been good for me, but my GP gave me a new machine 6 weeks ago, a Wavesense Jazz. The readings were way out from my code free so I called the manufacturers. We worked out the problem. The Jazz lancets are very very thin so the blood sample for that...

Whoops - 13.2[emoji34] Before dinner last night it was 8.1 - dinner was a KFC and a beer, so won’t do that again [emoji35]

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Wow - must be like trying to shove a blunt pencil into your finger

How often do you change your lancet needles? I guess I’m pretty lazy, but if you are out and about changing needles for a quick BS check is a faff, so sometime I can re-use it a good few times. So how many times do you re-use yours - I mean it’s only used by you, and you keep it clean in your...

I use the SD Code Free meter, and have done for a few years. As far as I’m concerned it’s pretty accurate, and most importantly as I was paying for it myself, inexpensive. My GP’s nurse (not a DSN) insisted I started using this Jazz my meter and then gave it to me free of charge. First reading I...

Had my Pfizer 2nd vaccination yesterday - no change in my readings even though I expected one

All in the melting pot - but until I find a qualified DSN (few and far between) or an interested GP it’s all speculation. My appointment with a proper DSN has been made - it’s in August. To get back to see my GP takes 6 weeks, at least

Problem is, real DSN’s are few and far between. Very few, if any, GP surgeries have one. They send a nurse off for a one day course, they come back experts. Mine took my BS reading after wiping my finger with an alcohol swab and got a reading of 33.7. She said wow, that’s dangerously high, then...

Doesn't look like that is too onerous - it's all about hypo's, which with my BS level being ridiculously high at the moment, is not on the cards. But reading between the lines nothing will happen if I fill in the forms, but if I have an accident of any sort and don't fill it in, I guess the...

My blood sugars have taken a big wobble over the past 8 weeks, bouncing between 12 and 23, with a weight loss of 16lbs. After a struggle I get to see what I thought was a DSN at my local health centre, and she gets me on Gliclazide, along with my Metformin SR, Sitaglyptin, and Empflagozin. She...

11.5 - everything is a mare right now. Just been put on Gliptizide but that’s having no effect right now.

I am afraid my confidence of self proclaimed DSN's is pretty low. I was called for my 6 monthly review, by letter, which stated that my blood test form was enclosed - it wasn't. I attended my review and said to the DSN that I haven't had my blood test done yet. Its no problem she said we are...