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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CAD" data-source="post: 432820" data-attributes="member: 85485"><p>Hi I wondered if you could give me some advice please.  My husband was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on 1st November 2011.  He was admitted to hospital where his blood readings were so high they were 'off the dial'.  He was injecting insulin 4 times a day.  Since then he has worked really hard, managing his diet and taking up regular exercise (he's just about to take part in his 2nd 10k road race).  He is now fitter and healthier than he has been in years, he has had his diabetes diagnosis changed to type 2 and is no longer taking any insulin at all, he is managing with diet alone.  He has just been for a medication review and the nurse (not a diabetes nurse), has taken all medication off his repeat prescription, but has also cut his allocation of testing strips to 1 box a month.  This will mean that he can test his sugar levels 1.5 times a day!  He has managed so well because he has always checked his sugar levels regularly (3 times a day most days) and this means that he will no longer be able to do this.  He feels that he is being penalised for looking after his health and making the effort to help himself.  If he had not done this then he would still be 'costing' the NHS insulin, hypo gel etc.  Do you think that it's unreasonable to expect enough testing strips to be able to test at least twice a day, although he would be happier with 3 times?  It would be great to get some opinions?  Many thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>

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