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T1's having strips limited?
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<blockquote data-quote="Charles Robin" data-source="post: 505120" data-attributes="member: 92241"><p>If I had my strips limited, I would go as far as I needed to get them unlimited. First I would book an appointment with my surgery, show my control before the high testing, and then show my excellent control with high testing (saving the NHS money looking after me in when I have hypos and when complications start to set in). If that didn't work I would submit complaint letters. If that didn't work I would change surgery. If that didn't work I would get legal advice. If that didn't work I would contact my MP, start petitions, and become the squeakiest wheel I could be until the NHS relented and gave me the strips that are essential to monitoring my diabetes control.</p><p>If you are requesting test strips because you live the way they look and want to make wallpaper out of them, that is grounds to refuse prescribing them. If you are requesting them because you are aggressively attacking your diabetes, whipping it into line and making sure it does not get away with anything, you should be entitled to as many as you need. I have said it before, and I am pleased to say it again: these doctors are paid with your tax money. They work for us, and your health is a right, not a privilege. Never feel you are being unreasonable asking for tools to be healthy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charles Robin, post: 505120, member: 92241"] If I had my strips limited, I would go as far as I needed to get them unlimited. First I would book an appointment with my surgery, show my control before the high testing, and then show my excellent control with high testing (saving the NHS money looking after me in when I have hypos and when complications start to set in). If that didn't work I would submit complaint letters. If that didn't work I would change surgery. If that didn't work I would get legal advice. If that didn't work I would contact my MP, start petitions, and become the squeakiest wheel I could be until the NHS relented and gave me the strips that are essential to monitoring my diabetes control. If you are requesting test strips because you live the way they look and want to make wallpaper out of them, that is grounds to refuse prescribing them. If you are requesting them because you are aggressively attacking your diabetes, whipping it into line and making sure it does not get away with anything, you should be entitled to as many as you need. I have said it before, and I am pleased to say it again: these doctors are paid with your tax money. They work for us, and your health is a right, not a privilege. Never feel you are being unreasonable asking for tools to be healthy. [/QUOTE]
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