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<blockquote data-quote="sausage91" data-source="post: 2148386" data-attributes="member: 489540"><p>I was diagnosed type 2 in August 2018. After a really sorry experience with existing diabetic nurse I changed to a diabetic specialist doctor. My Hba1c was 97 at the time. No one had advised me to test my glucose but I'd bought a meter in the sheer panic of the diagnosis. I meticulously tested and wrote down the readings each day - I even made a graph. Went to new doctor expecting him to be impressed with my diligence but instead he laughed. "Let me prove something to you he said". He did a test with a meter. It said 6.7. He then tested with another meter that said 7.2. 2 minutes later he repeated the test with both devices - the first said 7.2 and the second said 5.6. He said that the only test that meant anything was the Hba1c. He said that the glucose can vary greatly within the space of minutes and added to that, the meters were an expensive nonsense. 13 months later my Hba1c is now 36. Every day I think of what he said - live your life, I will worry about your blood numbers and you stop being hung up on diabetes. He said being diabetic doesn't mean that you have to spend money on gadgets and if I followed the right diet (learned on Xpert Health programme) I could trust that my numbers would go down - and they did. I realise now that testing my blood 6 times a day wouldn't actually have done anything for me except make me obsessive about eating. I occasionally test out of interest but other than that - what's the point - if you eat rubbish - the glucose will go up. Do we need a meter to know that?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sausage91, post: 2148386, member: 489540"] I was diagnosed type 2 in August 2018. After a really sorry experience with existing diabetic nurse I changed to a diabetic specialist doctor. My Hba1c was 97 at the time. No one had advised me to test my glucose but I'd bought a meter in the sheer panic of the diagnosis. I meticulously tested and wrote down the readings each day - I even made a graph. Went to new doctor expecting him to be impressed with my diligence but instead he laughed. "Let me prove something to you he said". He did a test with a meter. It said 6.7. He then tested with another meter that said 7.2. 2 minutes later he repeated the test with both devices - the first said 7.2 and the second said 5.6. He said that the only test that meant anything was the Hba1c. He said that the glucose can vary greatly within the space of minutes and added to that, the meters were an expensive nonsense. 13 months later my Hba1c is now 36. Every day I think of what he said - live your life, I will worry about your blood numbers and you stop being hung up on diabetes. He said being diabetic doesn't mean that you have to spend money on gadgets and if I followed the right diet (learned on Xpert Health programme) I could trust that my numbers would go down - and they did. I realise now that testing my blood 6 times a day wouldn't actually have done anything for me except make me obsessive about eating. I occasionally test out of interest but other than that - what's the point - if you eat rubbish - the glucose will go up. Do we need a meter to know that? [/QUOTE]
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