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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barbarahelms06" data-source="post: 888213" data-attributes="member: 174176">I was diagnosed t2 nov 2014 and March this year I was refused a prescription for lancets and test strips and told I don't need to test anymore I was also told that I can have only 2 prescriptions a year for these items and for disposal box  but diabetes is still a minefield to me although I have now got my levels down within range I find if I go below 5.4 I am ill when first diagnosed I was 25.5 I need to check my levels so I know where I'm up to but I now only check at mornings and can judge the day from that reading (usually) I have found it cheaper to get lancets and test strips from my local chemist and it takes 24 hours because they order them for me but nothing is to much trouble for them It is all to do with cutbacks because of the state of the NHS it is the pct who has issued this directive  cutbacks in the wrong place if you ask me I will continue to test myself daily and fund myself regardless of what my gp says , I have a sister who is injecting 6 times a day and a nephew who has just started injecting I do not want to go the same way</blockquote>

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