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<blockquote data-quote="iHs" data-source="post: 403094" data-attributes="member: 8799"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>You need to push your GP into a corner in their surgery and confront them with the msg I did on this thread <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=42856&p=391961&hilit=DannyH#p391961" target="_blank">viewtopic.php?f=19&t=42856&p=391961&hilit=DannyH#p391961</a></p><p>Using an insulin regime such as basal/bolus is dangerous unless sufficient testing can be done as its impossible to be able to judge the correct amount bolus without knowing how low or high a bg level is. On the older insulin regimes there was better predictability but not so with bolus/basal even with reading books on the subject. Bg testing of about 6 times a day should enable diabetics to achieve decent bg levels and avoid complications and of course its now a legal requirement for insulin dependant diabetics to test their bg levels before they drive anyway so you need to confront your GP over this matter.</p><p>Sadly, the cost of prescribing teststrips is what concerns GPs working within a budget but that is not a diabetics fault, the NHS could quite easily appoint a manufacturer to make a bg meter for the NHS and at the same time, appoint a manufacturer to make bg teststrips for that meter and as such everyone could benefit. Why the NHS hasn't done this, beggers belief</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iHs, post: 403094, member: 8799"] Hi You need to push your GP into a corner in their surgery and confront them with the msg I did on this thread [url=http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=42856&p=391961&hilit=DannyH#p391961]viewtopic.php?f=19&t=42856&p=391961&hilit=DannyH#p391961[/url] Using an insulin regime such as basal/bolus is dangerous unless sufficient testing can be done as its impossible to be able to judge the correct amount bolus without knowing how low or high a bg level is. On the older insulin regimes there was better predictability but not so with bolus/basal even with reading books on the subject. Bg testing of about 6 times a day should enable diabetics to achieve decent bg levels and avoid complications and of course its now a legal requirement for insulin dependant diabetics to test their bg levels before they drive anyway so you need to confront your GP over this matter. Sadly, the cost of prescribing teststrips is what concerns GPs working within a budget but that is not a diabetics fault, the NHS could quite easily appoint a manufacturer to make a bg meter for the NHS and at the same time, appoint a manufacturer to make bg teststrips for that meter and as such everyone could benefit. Why the NHS hasn't done this, beggers belief [/QUOTE]
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