Recent Content by shirl24

Grazer, I have been notified that you have sent me a private message, but I cannot view it.

I was only diagnosed with type 2 in August of this year, and bought myself a meter and test strips as my surgery do not supply testing strips for type 2. I was prescribed metformin which I have not taken as the instructions say you should not drink alcohol and I went to a group nutrition...

I am from the UK my surgery does not provide them on prescription, apparently it is a bit of a postcode lottery if your surgery will supply them on prescription. There is a link to a petiton on this website for people to get free testing strips...

I doubt it applies to that as anyone can eat diabetic chocolate, whereas testing strips would only be used by people with diabetes, see this example of exemptions http://www.diabetes.co.uk/vat-exemption.html

I have spent the last 2 weeks battling with Boots the chemist via email and telephone calls as they were charging VAT on diabetic products, finally they have acknowledged that the products should be VAT exempt and have today updated their website accordingly. Also at the moment until 19...