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- Type of diabetes
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- Insulin
I find it outrageous that T2 diabetics like myself are denied test strips on the NHS whilst T1 which do get them free on the NHS are selling them and not cheaply on Ebay to those of us T2 who wish to keep track of our BS reading and adjust our diet accordingly. I can only assume that they either over order them or they are ordering a quantity and then only testing themselves rarely or not at all. Some people are selling anything up to a dozen or more boxes of 50 strips for in excess of £100. Surely this can't be right or fair. It's all very well to say - as my DB nurse does - you T2 don't need to test. I would far rather keep a watch on my diabetes by testing myself once a day and adjusting my eating accordingly if it starts going up again or going down too low than not testing only to find out at the next blood test that my levels have gone out of control.
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