- Messages
- 78
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
This is a mini rant, I guess sometimes it's good to have a vent.
I find dealing with the docs or the pharmacy is sometimes just hard. Had this in multiple countries now and the NHS was definitely better in many aspects, but it took me three years to have my doctors agree to test me for diabetes because I "was too young to have type 2 diabetes" which wasn't great. Sometimes I feel like I tell them things and they don't listen
Yesterday I went to buy some gaviscon or sugar free rennie, the pharmacist didn't have those but offered me a different antacid, turns out they have quite a bit of glucose in each tablet despite the pharmacist knowing I'm diabetic and me specifying I was asking for sugar free options :***:
Then we come to today's issue; I buy test strips for my original meter but ran out of them as I hadn't had a chance to go buy more, but I didn't worry too much about it because I had recently been given a pharmacy provided one (the pharmacy provides me with a machine and 25 test strips per month for free per the Maltese version of the NHS) so planned to use those in the mean time. One slight problem, the strips don't fit the machine...I don't understand why they would provide strips that don't fit the machine they also provided.
In a happy twist of fate it's my pharmacy's turn to be open on Sunday so I can go out and buy more strips / try and sort out the machine mix up
I find dealing with the docs or the pharmacy is sometimes just hard. Had this in multiple countries now and the NHS was definitely better in many aspects, but it took me three years to have my doctors agree to test me for diabetes because I "was too young to have type 2 diabetes" which wasn't great. Sometimes I feel like I tell them things and they don't listen
Yesterday I went to buy some gaviscon or sugar free rennie, the pharmacist didn't have those but offered me a different antacid, turns out they have quite a bit of glucose in each tablet despite the pharmacist knowing I'm diabetic and me specifying I was asking for sugar free options :***:
Then we come to today's issue; I buy test strips for my original meter but ran out of them as I hadn't had a chance to go buy more, but I didn't worry too much about it because I had recently been given a pharmacy provided one (the pharmacy provides me with a machine and 25 test strips per month for free per the Maltese version of the NHS) so planned to use those in the mean time. One slight problem, the strips don't fit the machine...I don't understand why they would provide strips that don't fit the machine they also provided.
In a happy twist of fate it's my pharmacy's turn to be open on Sunday so I can go out and buy more strips / try and sort out the machine mix up