Love choux buns, best cream bun to eat if you absolutely have to as (comparatively) low sugar!
re strips, just had a minor disagreement with my doc about testing strips - she said I shouldn't be testing. I asked how on earth are people supposed to take control of their condition if they can't test. After quite a long silence, she agreed to prescribe me some test strips but said she couldn't put it on my repeat prescription. What annoys me is that I asked about reducing my meds and the answer was no even though I had a much lower sugar. If I was on fewer meds, they could afford to pay for the strips. As an unemployed person there is no way I could fund the strips myself. I also told her that they had given me the tester in the first place! It used to be policy to give a tester to type 2s.
Hi Volorg, thought I would reply to you, even though I'm a T1, mainly because I posted yesterday to say how disgusting it is that the NHS won't prescribe the test strips.
You're absolutely right to have challenged your doctor about this. I'm glad your doctor prescribed you them in the end.
Also, as for any disease or ailment, the less medication you can take but still control your illness sounds to me like a bonus.
Think about the amount of money the NHS could save if they prescribed test strips to all diabetics, which could lead to better control and therefore, could minimize treatment towards diabetic damage. I don't know how much 1 hospitalized session of dialysis is, but I'm pretty sure it's a lot more than a box of testing strips.
And as you pointed out, reducing medication would also save the NHS a fortune.
It seems terrible to me that the NHS gamble with the health and wellbeing of T2's...
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