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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 391212" data-attributes="member: 55568">There are two types of GP, those who are paid on profits, ie how much they save the NHS and those who are salaried. The cost of a drug like metformin is a fraction of the cost of test strips. My GP is a walking encyclopedia on the costs of drugs. He is motivated by savings. The fact is, metformin is much cheaper, very much cheaper, than the costs of test strips. When your GP says that you'll confuse yourself, what she means is that you'll be a nuisance and you'll book an appointment to see her and you'll waste another ten minutes of her precious time. Time is money.My DN is motvated by what she sees as her special status and knowledge. She often makes appeals to authority when I question her, once telling me that she had an A Level in biology. Knowledge of the reproductive cycle of the buttercup is no reason to assume knowledge of diabetes however. She told me not to buy my own blood pressure monitor as I too would only confuse myself.Your GP seems to be a combination of both of the health professionals who look after me.Some of the foods to be avoided are obvious, other less so. When I bought my own meter, I quickly discovered that things like white bread were just as bad sweets. I also learned that things like brown rice filled my belly but had little or no effect on blood sugars. With lots of testing, over the months, I learned how to keep my BG levels down by eating foods that suited me. Now I don't need to test as much as things are more predictable. I used to test at the start and and the end of the day and before and two hours after every meal, so 7 or 8 times per day, depending on when I ate breakfast. Now I use it 3 or 4 times per day and I suspect that in the future, that I'll be using it only a couple of times per day.Lots of people who don't have meters think they are eating the right things but are then surprised when they have high HBA1c readings. They then have a 5 min chat about changing their diet and told to come back in 6 months. It would take you years to learn that way.</blockquote>

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