Has anybody come up against problems with being prescribed test strips for your glucose monitor machine? I'm newly diagnosed and the DN told me to test as often as I need but at least four times a day. Problem is that I'm using around 7-8 a day currently (some give a fault error and have to be discarded) and they are supplied in boxes of 50. I just put a new prescription in and they tell me that I can't have anymore as they were only prescribed about a week ago. Anyone else had similar experiences?
Bea
Your doctors practice should know better. As a
newly-diagnosed T1 you will need to test more regularly anyway as you adjust your basal amounts, bolus ratios, etc. Sure, a Freestyle Libre (if you have one) will help you but finger prick testing is the only way to be certain as CGMs are never THAT accurate.
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@catapillar details, there are plenty of times you need to test. If you drive to drop off/pick the kids up from school or go to work, then that's two tests done as being legally mandated by the DVLA. Add in three meals a day and the 2/2.5 hour check afterwards and already you are on eight before doing anything else like sleep, exercise or having a hypo/hyper.
We used to get some friction getting test strips for my daughter. They would only let us have them in batches of fifty and we were going through them every 5-6 days. And they got obstinate with me when I was putting in repeats every few days. So we got our DSN to write to them and now we get four boxes of 50 at a time. I'm allowed three boxes at a time.