Hi,
My last request for more blood glucose test strips has been rejected. I had to ring up to find out why and my GP claims I use too many. I admit I use a lot, perhaps 15 or more a day. However, a chunk of those are wasted as my freestyle optium neo loves to give out error codes for no reason.
I've always justified my usage as I'm a competitive power-lifting closing in on south east records, I won't say which records as I want to be anonymous but I'd have no problem telling my doctors. The majority of my testing is related to lifting.
My endocrinologist is happy with my testing and control, he's even written a letter to my GP before saying pretty much 'give him what he wants'. However, it's been a while since I've seen him as my appointment has been postponed twice, almost 1 year. Whenever I do go to the proper diabetic appointment they always praise me with how well controlled I am and I'm currently 12ish years in with no complications.
It seems they want me to go see my GP to 'discuss' or perhaps them try to intimidate me into using less strips, but why would I see my GP about something like this? Surely an appointment with my proper diabetic doctor would be the only way to solve potential issues, but that's not happening till autumn this year.
Right now they say they're not 'denying' my strips but rather 'rejecting' them. Not sure what the difference is here. If I didn't have backups from last months prescription I would probably run out in 2 days and be totally out of strips. I'm currently involved in a competition and can't even see my GP, I won't be around for a few days. I can probably make my strips last but how is this even legal?
Thanks in advance.
My last request for more blood glucose test strips has been rejected. I had to ring up to find out why and my GP claims I use too many. I admit I use a lot, perhaps 15 or more a day. However, a chunk of those are wasted as my freestyle optium neo loves to give out error codes for no reason.
I've always justified my usage as I'm a competitive power-lifting closing in on south east records, I won't say which records as I want to be anonymous but I'd have no problem telling my doctors. The majority of my testing is related to lifting.
My endocrinologist is happy with my testing and control, he's even written a letter to my GP before saying pretty much 'give him what he wants'. However, it's been a while since I've seen him as my appointment has been postponed twice, almost 1 year. Whenever I do go to the proper diabetic appointment they always praise me with how well controlled I am and I'm currently 12ish years in with no complications.
It seems they want me to go see my GP to 'discuss' or perhaps them try to intimidate me into using less strips, but why would I see my GP about something like this? Surely an appointment with my proper diabetic doctor would be the only way to solve potential issues, but that's not happening till autumn this year.
Right now they say they're not 'denying' my strips but rather 'rejecting' them. Not sure what the difference is here. If I didn't have backups from last months prescription I would probably run out in 2 days and be totally out of strips. I'm currently involved in a competition and can't even see my GP, I won't be around for a few days. I can probably make my strips last but how is this even legal?
Thanks in advance.