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<blockquote data-quote="Scouser58" data-source="post: 872943" data-attributes="member: 103830"><p>Hello to everybody, the testing for T2 is still rumbling on and now the big boys are jumping up saying no testing if on Metformin???</p><p>I have been on Metformin since I was diagnosed and have been testing also. I feel that T2 should be testing each day to keep their eye on the development of their condition, and be able to act accordingly if things are getting problematic.</p><p></p><p>Why are they saying these things when if they read the posts on this site, they would read the details of each diabetics progress and actions they have to go through to keep their condition in check. Many a good turn around and stabilizing of things is down to testing and maintaining a record. Each time I went to see the diabetic doctor at the hospital, he asked for my readings to see how I was dealing with the condition, so why are the 'Penny Pinchers' are looking at 'saving money'??? The how would they explain the rising costs of more serious treatments for diabetic complications that start to occur? Then they would come out with the blame the patient drum beat, when all along it would have been cheaper to allow testing for T2's. </p><p></p><p>The ones who say these things are money misers and not doctors, so who are they to say no testing, I believe that testing is important to T2's and the levels of medications should not be the main reason to stop them. Challenge the stopping of testing for T2 and keep asking your own doctor for the strips and lancets to continue doing so. This has been rumbled on for many months and it will do so for longer, No Stopping Of Testing For T2 Diabetics, ttfn from Karen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scouser58, post: 872943, member: 103830"] Hello to everybody, the testing for T2 is still rumbling on and now the big boys are jumping up saying no testing if on Metformin??? I have been on Metformin since I was diagnosed and have been testing also. I feel that T2 should be testing each day to keep their eye on the development of their condition, and be able to act accordingly if things are getting problematic. Why are they saying these things when if they read the posts on this site, they would read the details of each diabetics progress and actions they have to go through to keep their condition in check. Many a good turn around and stabilizing of things is down to testing and maintaining a record. Each time I went to see the diabetic doctor at the hospital, he asked for my readings to see how I was dealing with the condition, so why are the 'Penny Pinchers' are looking at 'saving money'??? The how would they explain the rising costs of more serious treatments for diabetic complications that start to occur? Then they would come out with the blame the patient drum beat, when all along it would have been cheaper to allow testing for T2's. The ones who say these things are money misers and not doctors, so who are they to say no testing, I believe that testing is important to T2's and the levels of medications should not be the main reason to stop them. Challenge the stopping of testing for T2 and keep asking your own doctor for the strips and lancets to continue doing so. This has been rumbled on for many months and it will do so for longer, No Stopping Of Testing For T2 Diabetics, ttfn from Karen. [/QUOTE]
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