At what age does one try less?
Never surrender!
My experience is mixed. One nurse takes notes about how I lost 25% body weight and halved my HbA1c in 6 months (LCHF, more exercise, great ideas and support from this forum and the lowcarb forum). She passes this on to other patients so they can help themselves.
The other gets sour when I say:
* The NHS diet advice is literally poisonous (regular brown bread, brown rice etc). Do the tests and you wise up very quickly. Would you rather wake up at 5.5 or at 15+?
* That (self funded) home testing is the only way I could sift the good advice from the quackery about what enjoyable food wouldn't harm me.
* Given the amount I anticipate saving the NHS in avoided complication treatment costs by self management calibrated by self testing it is a bloody disgrace that I have to pay to do their job for them. She actually has the temerity in the face of evidence to debate with me the point of a type 2 self testing. Disgrace.
End of rant.
The NHS in general is wonderful. I really mean that. My late wife got 14 extra years through their work in another specialism.
But they wilfully p*ss away 20% of their budget treating type 2 complications when the correct advice and test strips on prescription might cost 5%.
I am incandescent that this is not obvious to those in charge.
How do we change this?