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Diabetes 'impact on brain power'

You'd be given test strips if you were on medication which could cause hypoglycemia I think? Which is what causes (or is caused by, they don't know which is the cause and which is the effect) the problems talked about in that article.

It's badly worded, they mean keep blood sugar levels not too low rather than 'under control', I assume from reading the article.

Though yes we should be given test strips! (seen a consultant recently who said I should be prescribed some, don't think it will be enough to test multiple times a day though.)
 
HLW
I think T2s on any oral medication, even that which can causee hypos , don't get strips. I used to tske gliclazide, but wasn't allowed strips. Now I don't use it any more>>>
 
Hanadr,

That's not entirely right, I beleive it depends on the situation of the T2.

My mother became a T2 after a major bypass surgery of the artery that supplies blood to the legs. Her BG sometimes goes well over 30's due to steroids she has been put on for some pain. I became a T2 because of a pancreatic stone, my BGs very rarely go over 9 and we both get strips.
 
Reading the link originally posted, I thought I had inadvertently picked up a copy of the Daily Mail...
 
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