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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jordi77" data-source="post: 2689247" data-attributes="member: 221771"><p>If you use tablets and are type 2 your GP will always advice you not to test your sugars but most diabetics go against the advice and do even if it costs you money but if you take insulin you have to test your sugars at least 4 to 8 times a day and if you are lucky enough to get a Libre 2 sensor and app from your hospital and then GP on prescription then it's done every 15 minutes on it due to the memory on the sensor into which I'm lucky enough to get due to being on insulin and more or less being in hospital due to my diabetes putting me there more times than enough for my sugars being high and ketones in my body and it's nothing I'm doing wrong just that my body rejects the insulin and that sends my sugars high and ketones high and that's why I ended up testing 8 times a day and it is easier with a Libre sensor than pricking your fingers and getting blood out and squeezing them and they don't bleed because it has happened to me but when I have been on tablets or diet I to was told not to test until the hospital said otherwise and prescribed test strips and Lancet's and I changed my blood meter for the newest one when I can by the same company</p></blockquote><p></p>

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