I've bought my own meter and having seen a nurse for the first time today who looked at me with disdain when I asked for a prescription for strips and lancets as I don't need them they won't do me any good.
I pointed out I'm a mobile engineer and I've had 5 readings in the 3.? Region in the last 2 weeks but according to her "Metformin doesn't do that"
if I hadn't of tested myself and acted on my own conclusion get my level up then I'm correct in thinking I could of lost my licence if I'd of had an accident.
I want to monitor myself and cost the NHS less now than complications in 10 or 20 years time.
My mother has detached retinas had the gas bubble procedure to try to reattach them and is going blind with retinopathy from bad management through poor help and advice when she was diagnosed type 2 diet and just Metformin 25 years ago.
I'm ******** if I'm going down the cost route when I've just seen a program on TV where an obese person gets £1300 a month to get their backsides washed. I want control for me not a half assed health worker with a budget. Ironically I can buy test strips and lancets on ebay from someone in a better postcode who gets them for free.
That's just so wrong and disgusting. The nurse takes another blood test but didn't bother checking blood pressure and gives me a form to go on a day course that states a go or health workers is to fill out only.
No I don't live in the third world I live in South Gloucestershire. The third world have better care workers.
Sorry just needed a rant.
Evening all :cry:
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