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Persistence pays!

diabolic sister

diabolic sister

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Location
Anglesey
Type of diabetes
LADA
Treatment type
Insulin
Indeed, I finally persuaded the diabetic nurse to give me a monitor and . . . prescription for strips! I used all the best key words and phrases, self management, future savings for nhs, not going to test randomly, broaden my diet and stop starving in the secure knowledge that what I am doing is correct etc and she caved in. I think it was just to get me out of the surgery really, but I win! Yess. :-)
So fellow type 2s, don't give up. Arm yourselves with knowledge and considered arguments and calmly persist.
 
Obviously hit the spot with her! Well done, happy testing!


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I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I think it is very short sighted of medical professionals attempting to save a few bob by scrimping on test strips. I'm not sure of the source, but I remember hearing somewhere that 90% of the costs involved with diabetes is associated with complications. So I would think that anything to help control BM levels would be a prudent investment. Granted it's not quite so important for T2's as swings tend to be less dramatic, but still important none the less.
 
Why don't they simply prescribe visually read test strips? - either Betachek Visual or Glucoflex-R. (http://www.betachek.com/uk/)

I use them all the time.

And I cut them with scissors. So that makes them even more economical.
 
I only got diagnosed three weeks ago as type 2 and I got a monitor and prescription for strips and lancets but reading this why doesn't everyone get one?



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mikeyboy said:
I only got diagnosed three weeks ago as type 2 and I got a monitor and prescription for strips and lancets but reading this why doesn't everyone get one?



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I think it depends on various factors such as your health authority policies, going right down to the prescribing budgets of individual GP pratices.
It still amazes me, reading some of the posts here that a typical reply to a T2 when asking about testing, it is not important for type 2ers to test.

Tom
 
michaeldavid said:
Why don't they simply prescribe visually read test strips? - either Betachek Visual or Glucoflex-R. (http://www.betachek.com/uk/)

I use them all the time.
And I cut them with scissors. So that makes them even more economical.
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I tend to ignore these modern fangled devices. and as for lancets, they are just brutal. I usually draw blood using a masonary nail and a hammer, let a good half pint flow into a dish
then leave this outside for 1/2 an hour. When I go back to check on it, the number of ants in the blood corresponds exactly to my BM in MMols/l.
I forsake insulin pens too. Heck even syringes are too modern. I prefer to jam a funnel into my carotid artery, and wring out a pigs pancreas into it. Using these methods, I keep my BM to well below 8ants post meal ;-)

Tom
 
tomvonc said:
I forsake insulin pens too. Heck even syringes are too modern. I prefer to jam a funnel into my carotid artery, and wring out a pigs pancreas into it. Using these methods, I keep my BM to well below 8ants post meal ;-)
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PMSL :-D
 
How frequently do you recommend sharpening the funnel? Manufacturers recommend sharpening it daily with a manufacturer approved whetstone and file. Is this just hype?

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2 weeks ago I was given an Accu-chek Mobile monitor in a new box that contained 2 x 6 lancet drums and a cartridge with 50 strips. No prescription for further strips was offered at the time. Presumably she thinks these strips will last me until our next meeting in June. I haven't dared ring to ask so have ordered some from the internet (at half the price Boots charge but still extortionate). At least I got 50 free, and hopefully another 50 in June!
 
Spiker said:
How frequently do you recommend sharpening the funnel? Manufacturers recommend sharpening it daily with a manufacturer approved whetstone and file. Is this just hype?
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They say every day. Some even go as far as to say using a new funnel for each pancreas wring. I've been using the same funnel for 3 weeks now without having to increase the size of the pancreas I'm squeezing. ;-)

Tom
 
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