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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlexMBrennan" data-source="post: 637385" data-attributes="member: 82151">I'm surprised your pharmacist was unable to help you - neither lancets nor lancing devices are prescription items, and whilst you can get them on prescription or free from the manufacturer (e.g. With a meter) you can also buy them in pharmacies (boots website list a medisana lancing device for £3.99, so you could have either bought that outright or gone to your GP to request a prescription for that because the old lancets have been discontinued)In general, I find that pharmacists are a lot more helpful with this since they actually know the stuff whilst GPs just pick stuff from a catalogue of hundreds of very nearly identically named items. Tell the doctor to stop being a bloody idiot? They wouldn't have prescribed lancets if you didn't need them, and that need didn't magically go away when the manufacturer stopped making the specific type of lancet you were using...</blockquote>

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