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This is not about whether the NHS should, or can afford to, provide test strips on a permanent or temporary basis to non-T1 diabetics. Having read #EveryCloud ’s post, and so many more like it over the years on this forum, I wonder whether we could gather together examples of Healthcare Professionals who have told people that it is either unnecessary or just plain wrong to test their blood sugars. It is a scandal that needs highlighting.
Following my annual diabeitc checkup with the nurse and my finding my diabetes is unstable i was prescribed alogliptin in addition to my 2000mg of metformin. (I am recently diagnosed with AF and possible heart failure) and so on a lot of new medications. I was told by the nurse to report back to her if my blood sugars were not improving. I monitored for just over a week and found my sugars increasing, the last measurement I took was 19.6 and I am feeling very sleepy. I spoke to her again today and she now says I should not be testing at all (and that I shouldnt have been testing prior to our meeting). I am stunned by this one of the medications I am on is known o cause sugar spikes, at the moment my general health is really bad (on a bad day I cannot even get out of bed) my stomach is badly swollen yet she says I am simply overeating due to the lockdown (which I am not) To come back to the post..I am not happy that I know that my blood sugars ar so far out of kilter and I am also told not to keep a check on them either? Can this be right? I am not asking for strips, but the instruction is to cease from monitoring? Please advise I am extremely worried over this
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