Recent Blood Glucose Monitoring!

As you are now being treated with insulin the story should have changed: you are at risk of hypo and, therefore, it is considered more important that you check your BG.
As for your holiday, you should be able to request additional strips. If you have already submitted your prescription request, once you get your strips, immediately submit another selecting just the strips. If the doctor queries it, explain your additional needs for your trip and assume you need more strips than usual whilst you are aware in case they get damaged, lost or because you are likely to have a different lifestyle which may impact your BG differently so need to test more,

When I was diagnosed as type 1, my initial prescription was for 50 test strips per prescription. I sat down and worked out how many strips I would need for a month, then wrote a note to my doctor, dropped it into the surgery.

The note pointed out that each prescription filled carries a charge to the surgery from the pharmacy. I laid out, in the note, how many times a day I was expected to test, before each meal, two hours later, driving and so on.

As long as the request is presented in a sensible manner your doctor will weigh up the pros and cons and, I'm sure, amend your repeat prescriptions.

Hope you get it sorted.