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<blockquote data-quote="Bluetit1802" data-source="post: 2072156" data-attributes="member: 94045"><p>You are right, of course. However, it is very clear that the NHS has not "discovered" that testing meals and so forth is an option. Everyone was prescribed test strips at one time but no-one knew how to use them to their advantage. They were told to test at most once a day, testing meals was never recognised and still isn't. It must have become clear that this was a waste of money because they didn't help people to improve their diabetes and did not reduce the dangers of complications or increased medications.. It was unknown for T2s to attain remission or good control with the use of test strips. So ... in the absence of advice to test before and after meals, hardly anyone got better. Therefore withdrawal of these prescriptions was seen as a good cost cutting measure, and that is the status quo. NICE and HCPs need to be made aware of how testing does help enormously when done properly in a structured fashion. Maybe once that hurdle is overcome, they may be made available again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluetit1802, post: 2072156, member: 94045"] You are right, of course. However, it is very clear that the NHS has not "discovered" that testing meals and so forth is an option. Everyone was prescribed test strips at one time but no-one knew how to use them to their advantage. They were told to test at most once a day, testing meals was never recognised and still isn't. It must have become clear that this was a waste of money because they didn't help people to improve their diabetes and did not reduce the dangers of complications or increased medications.. It was unknown for T2s to attain remission or good control with the use of test strips. So ... in the absence of advice to test before and after meals, hardly anyone got better. Therefore withdrawal of these prescriptions was seen as a good cost cutting measure, and that is the status quo. NICE and HCPs need to be made aware of how testing does help enormously when done properly in a structured fashion. Maybe once that hurdle is overcome, they may be made available again. [/QUOTE]
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