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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pipp" data-source="post: 2691855" data-attributes="member: 100904">Seems it is a bit of a lottery based on geography.[USER=569732]@geekesse[/USER] , I am curious as to which solution you will choose. Decline the offer of a place, (but would you wonder what you could have learned there.. good bad or indifferent)?  Go along, and either be pleasantly suprised or have it confirmed that in your area, T2  Diabetes education is very outdated and possibly halmful. Or even a bit of a combination? Twenty years after my own T2 diagnosis , I have never been seen by a specialist nurse, or HCP. Or offered a course. If I were invited, which is unlikely now I am old and managing without having had complications, and only diabetes med is Metformin, I would be very tempted to go just out of curiosity. Three people I know who went on a course around 10 years ago, told me about the tea breaks, the biscuits cakes on offer etc. They were told they could still have ‘treats’ such as a Mars bar a day, and that they would be cared for by the health team, with increasing meds. They would not be cured but could be treated. I would hope there has been improvement in the education programmes, but fear that is very optimistic.</blockquote>

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