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<blockquote data-quote="deadwood2" data-source="post: 71370" data-attributes="member: 16075"><p>Thanks, Tubs et al. Very useful information. </p><p></p><p>What I really don't understand is why the GP's are so tight-fisted about strips. My nurse has chucked a cheap meter at me, along with 10 strips, and said "test once or twice a month and come back in a couple of months". She did mutter something about testing too often becoming obsessive, but most people think I'm OCD anyway :lol: I'm not sure what use it is to test something that fluctuates on at least three cycles a day, one a month. Well, I am, but it's before the watershed...</p><p></p><p>This has to be the most difficult area; if the GP refuses outright to issue a testing kit you can challenge him about meeting NICE guidelines; if he issues a kit and insufficient consumables to make it useful, arguably he's met the guidelines if he genuinely thinks testing twice a month is adequate :roll: Then you're questioning his competence and/ or his professional judgment (SP? that looks very wrong to me) and god help you! </p><p></p><p>But, in all the debate about SM (or BGSM as I prefer to call it) no-one has ever mentioned recording and trend analysis (or if they have, I haven't seen it, except for one valiant soul who was writing a web app). </p><p></p><p>A single reading is useless - it's the trends your'e after - so it's break out the spreadsheet again; daily, 7,14, 28 day averages, food diary of sorts (off-plan record more like!), graphs, BMI calculator, etc. It'd cost the NHS less than £1000 to provide something like this free - and do they? Do they, pump! </p><p></p><p>Uh oh, I'm ranting again. Sorry.</p><p></p><p>But boy, will that nurse have some graphs to look at next time!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="deadwood2, post: 71370, member: 16075"] Thanks, Tubs et al. Very useful information. What I really don't understand is why the GP's are so tight-fisted about strips. My nurse has chucked a cheap meter at me, along with 10 strips, and said "test once or twice a month and come back in a couple of months". She did mutter something about testing too often becoming obsessive, but most people think I'm OCD anyway :lol: I'm not sure what use it is to test something that fluctuates on at least three cycles a day, one a month. Well, I am, but it's before the watershed... This has to be the most difficult area; if the GP refuses outright to issue a testing kit you can challenge him about meeting NICE guidelines; if he issues a kit and insufficient consumables to make it useful, arguably he's met the guidelines if he genuinely thinks testing twice a month is adequate :roll: Then you're questioning his competence and/ or his professional judgment (SP? that looks very wrong to me) and god help you! But, in all the debate about SM (or BGSM as I prefer to call it) no-one has ever mentioned recording and trend analysis (or if they have, I haven't seen it, except for one valiant soul who was writing a web app). A single reading is useless - it's the trends your'e after - so it's break out the spreadsheet again; daily, 7,14, 28 day averages, food diary of sorts (off-plan record more like!), graphs, BMI calculator, etc. It'd cost the NHS less than £1000 to provide something like this free - and do they? Do they, pump! Uh oh, I'm ranting again. Sorry. But boy, will that nurse have some graphs to look at next time! [/QUOTE]
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