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<blockquote data-quote="eggplant" data-source="post: 337972" data-attributes="member: 49981"><p>Hi Diharvey</p><p></p><p>As SF says, the strips/meter can be expensive (although you can get a Code Free SD with 50 strips for under £20 on Amazon) so unless you're desperate to know/be proactive, you might want to wait until you go back to the doctors after Christmas (given Christmas delivery schedules it might take that long for the meter to arrive anyway).</p><p></p><p>One thing I would advise though is that you think carefully about what you eat/drink. Before I was diagnosed last year, one of the symptoms I had (a common one) was a raging thirst which I (quite wrongly from a diabetic perspective) tried to feed with fizzy drinks, diluting squash drinks, milkshakes, etc. It was totally the wrong thing to do and sent my BG levels sky-high (from an initial fasting blood test of 16 mmol/L the result of which I was unaware of - to a whopping 27.4 mmol/L just a week after that initial test). The second result meant I was put straight onto insulin (thankfully, I only had to take it for around 6 weeks) which was a bit scary as an introduction to Type 2 diabetes. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops! :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" /> </p><p></p><p>Anyway, have a good (mindful) Christmas and hope you get a good result in the New Year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eggplant, post: 337972, member: 49981"] Hi Diharvey As SF says, the strips/meter can be expensive (although you can get a Code Free SD with 50 strips for under £20 on Amazon) so unless you're desperate to know/be proactive, you might want to wait until you go back to the doctors after Christmas (given Christmas delivery schedules it might take that long for the meter to arrive anyway). One thing I would advise though is that you think carefully about what you eat/drink. Before I was diagnosed last year, one of the symptoms I had (a common one) was a raging thirst which I (quite wrongly from a diabetic perspective) tried to feed with fizzy drinks, diluting squash drinks, milkshakes, etc. It was totally the wrong thing to do and sent my BG levels sky-high (from an initial fasting blood test of 16 mmol/L the result of which I was unaware of - to a whopping 27.4 mmol/L just a week after that initial test). The second result meant I was put straight onto insulin (thankfully, I only had to take it for around 6 weeks) which was a bit scary as an introduction to Type 2 diabetes. :oops: Anyway, have a good (mindful) Christmas and hope you get a good result in the New Year. [/QUOTE]
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