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<blockquote data-quote="Resurgam" data-source="post: 2424330" data-attributes="member: 355878"><p>Hello and welcome.</p><p>It looks as though your GP is assuming you are type two, as that is the standard prescription.</p><p>Type two is in its simplest form, an inability to deal with the amount of carbohydrates we are told to eat these days.</p><p>When you speak to your GP it would be useful to have more information - your Hba1c, which is shorthand for glycated haemoglobin - it indicates how much glucose was in your blood for how long, and the level of glucose in your blood when the sample was taken.</p><p>The eye screening is standard and should be done yearly just to check, like the foot check.</p><p>I am an ordinary type two, and I can't really complain about the diet - I only need to eat twice a day, at 12 hour intervals, but when I don't have scrambled eggs with cheese and some salad, I might have steak with mushrooms and sweet peppers, or sausages or bacon and eggs - and that is just breakfast. In the evening I might have stew or curry, or a stir fry and roast meat or cooked fish.</p><p>I make a low carb bread, cheese waffles, almond flour chocolate cake - there are recipes online.</p><p>Your prescriptions will all be free now, but you will probably have to buy your own testing meter if you want to monitor your response to diet. </p><p>I got a Tee2+ meter from Spirit Healthcare - which you can have free of VAT if you register on the website and then confirm by email. I am told that if you contact them by phone they might give you a free meter kit if you order several pots of strips, and depending on how you feel about changing the lancets, a box of those. I change the lancet almost every time, as I am usually only testing once in a blue moon these days, but when starting off you need to test fairly frequently, but there is a use by date on the test strips.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Resurgam, post: 2424330, member: 355878"] Hello and welcome. It looks as though your GP is assuming you are type two, as that is the standard prescription. Type two is in its simplest form, an inability to deal with the amount of carbohydrates we are told to eat these days. When you speak to your GP it would be useful to have more information - your Hba1c, which is shorthand for glycated haemoglobin - it indicates how much glucose was in your blood for how long, and the level of glucose in your blood when the sample was taken. The eye screening is standard and should be done yearly just to check, like the foot check. I am an ordinary type two, and I can't really complain about the diet - I only need to eat twice a day, at 12 hour intervals, but when I don't have scrambled eggs with cheese and some salad, I might have steak with mushrooms and sweet peppers, or sausages or bacon and eggs - and that is just breakfast. In the evening I might have stew or curry, or a stir fry and roast meat or cooked fish. I make a low carb bread, cheese waffles, almond flour chocolate cake - there are recipes online. Your prescriptions will all be free now, but you will probably have to buy your own testing meter if you want to monitor your response to diet. I got a Tee2+ meter from Spirit Healthcare - which you can have free of VAT if you register on the website and then confirm by email. I am told that if you contact them by phone they might give you a free meter kit if you order several pots of strips, and depending on how you feel about changing the lancets, a box of those. I change the lancet almost every time, as I am usually only testing once in a blue moon these days, but when starting off you need to test fairly frequently, but there is a use by date on the test strips. [/QUOTE]
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