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No Drugs = No Meter

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Mh has been to see the SDN this afternoon. She was pleased his levels are down, but still lectured him about taking more Met. She had a headfit when he said he's stopped taking the Simvastatin more than a fortnight ago ( from 'wood' to ED in 6 tablets - stopped taking them and back to normal in 48 hours, we tested this twice!)

Anyway...to cut a lecture short, she said if he doesn't take the Met twice a day then she can't give him any more scripts for free strips and he'd have to hand his meter back. When he asked why this was she said 'That's just the way it is'

:***: Why? Is this a financial thing? Are the GP surgeries on commission from the big pharmaceutical companies?

Julia

PS. Just to add that he's made an appt to see the GP tomorrow to discuss this, and won't hand the meter back in until he's used all of his strips, if at all.
 
Just tell her what she wants to hear, especially if she is actually willing to give him strips!

wiflib
 
She said testing kits were 'only for people who take their diabetes seriously'. I'm very cross about this, wish I'd gone in with him now instead in sitting in the car.

Julia
 
Julia,

I believe the practice does get a sum of money per diabetic patient? Perhaps they only qualify for that if they take the drugs?

Work the system, accept the drugs but don't take them!! Seems stupid to have to do that though?

My hubby must be lucky, he has got his numbers down with low carbing and she has already taken him off one drug and told him to only take one Met per day - and - he is getting testing strips prescribed too!!!! Not enough but better than none! He must be lucky and have a good surgery ;)

I would be back to the surgery and come down a little heavy on them and see what joy you get.
 
Topsec,

My husband is only one one Met per day too. When he was first diagnosed it was one per day to start with, to be put up to two after the first two weeks. When he went back to see the GP she was very impressed with his low BG levels that she said not to up the Met to two per day. The next day was his appointment with the SDN and she was not impressed at the GP's decision one bit, she said she wanted him 'maxed out' on Met and Statins. We could see no reason for this at the time as MH's levels were dropping daily, controlled by diet.

I think we're lucky in that the GP seems to be of the school of thought that says don't take any meds you don't need to take. Neither of them agree with low carbing and, although the GP has admitted that it's obviously working, she's still concerned that MH's diet isn't 'balanced'.

We'll see what the GP says tomorrow. I know MH wants to continue with testing as we are still relatively new to diabetes and finding out what foods do and don't agree with him, plus I think he feels more reassured knowing that his levels are good and he's in control (a huge turn around from five or so weeks ago)

Julia
 
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