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<blockquote data-quote="pav" data-source="post: 382122" data-attributes="member: 58100"><p>If or when you are on medication to help control your diabetes apply for a medical exemption certificate, you can get the form from your GP and a doctor will need to sign it to confirm you are on meds. If treatment is via diet only unfortunately you won't be able for a free exemption, but you can apply for a pre payment certificate if taking a few meds can work out a lot cheaper.</p><p></p><p>At your next meeting with the nurse you might know which way they are going to treat you, if they decide its by meds keep any receipts for prescriptions as I think you can claim them back for a certain period.</p><p></p><p>Depending on your GP they may or may not give you a prescription for more than 50 strips at a time.</p><p></p><p>New prescription charges are £7-85 more details on the link <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-charges-from-april-2013-announced" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs- ... -announced</a></p><p></p><p>Some manuals do tell you to use a control solution test that often, but in practice there's no need to. When my sugar levels jumped into the 20's early on in the year I ordered a control solution (these are normally free) to check its accuracy, turned out it was me and not the meter, this was the first time in a age that I ran a control test. The only other times I have run a control test were as I mentioned before was when Bayer sent me new meters (as my old meters were ancient and from a different supplier) and wanted to know if the results were similar between the new meters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pav, post: 382122, member: 58100"] If or when you are on medication to help control your diabetes apply for a medical exemption certificate, you can get the form from your GP and a doctor will need to sign it to confirm you are on meds. If treatment is via diet only unfortunately you won't be able for a free exemption, but you can apply for a pre payment certificate if taking a few meds can work out a lot cheaper. At your next meeting with the nurse you might know which way they are going to treat you, if they decide its by meds keep any receipts for prescriptions as I think you can claim them back for a certain period. Depending on your GP they may or may not give you a prescription for more than 50 strips at a time. New prescription charges are £7-85 more details on the link [url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-charges-from-april-2013-announced]https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs- ... -announced[/url] Some manuals do tell you to use a control solution test that often, but in practice there's no need to. When my sugar levels jumped into the 20's early on in the year I ordered a control solution (these are normally free) to check its accuracy, turned out it was me and not the meter, this was the first time in a age that I ran a control test. The only other times I have run a control test were as I mentioned before was when Bayer sent me new meters (as my old meters were ancient and from a different supplier) and wanted to know if the results were similar between the new meters. [/QUOTE]
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