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AS a diet and medicine controlled type 2 I tend to disagree with you - apart from a pack of 50 strips well after I was diagnosed and started to fund my own testing, I've had virtually no support or encouragement to manage or check my glucose levels - and If I'm lucky I'll get my next hb1ac check some time next summer.... I've seen my glucose levels go up (recently into the occasional double figures) from reasonably good levels since I started testing, mainly I believe through minor illnesses and stress. I'd have no way of knowing that this was happening if I hadn't carried on testing, and although I'm not on the breadline, as an OAP I
do have to do without other things to pay for strips. I've actually reached the conclusion that if I didn't bother I'd probably get more support and advice than I do now for all my own efforts to control my glucose levels. I feel quite bitter about this, as I've had excellent very long term support and treatment for migraines ( I believe some of my medication around 40 years ago cost around £60 a tablet
), and more recently for eye problems - neither of which could kill me - but my diabetes could.
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Robbity