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<blockquote data-quote="Mommayorkie" data-source="post: 671085" data-attributes="member: 37348"><p>we do have a diabetic team at our surgery. the nurse practitioner is head diabetic nurse. but her and the female dr who has recently taken over as diabetic doc from the long term one we had who has retired, both seem to want to shove people straight onto metformin. 2 tablets ,immediately they are diagnosed. for all i was told i was just borderline, i was told they were putting me on 2 tablets a day. i have a number of other conditions so chances were more tablets, more complications. i said no. i would try diet first.that worked. except they would not and still wont give me strips.can only afford to test FBS.bought own meter etc. a year ago i landed up having to have 4 courses of steroid tablets in 4 months.FBS shot up. from 3.5 to 12. without strips i would not have known that.their answer was not more strips/testing but after waiting till the steroids were out of my system they then put me on 1 metformin a day (being careful because of my IBS) then 2 months later 2 daily. they informed me if i was ok on them they would up it more. i said no you wont. why, if im only borderline normally? surely it only needs increasing if i have to go on steroids again or bloods go up for some reason as i get older? the docs answer? well we dont know what your bloods are doing rest of each day. i was disgusted... told her no you wont, yu wont give me strips to find out, you would rather shove pills down my throat without knowing what they are doing to me.had to stop the 2nd metformin anyway. it did affect my IBS. so only on 1 now. told the nurse i had stopped the 2nd one. she said ok. fine.and that was that. if it was fine then why put me on 2 in first place? obviously wasnt needed. did some research and discovered its cheaper to give you loads of tablets than strips for the only meters they can prescribe. (I use SD Codefree meter and strips and the strips are only £7 for 50 as opposed to over £20 for the ones they prescribe...whose ripping the NHS off????)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mommayorkie, post: 671085, member: 37348"] we do have a diabetic team at our surgery. the nurse practitioner is head diabetic nurse. but her and the female dr who has recently taken over as diabetic doc from the long term one we had who has retired, both seem to want to shove people straight onto metformin. 2 tablets ,immediately they are diagnosed. for all i was told i was just borderline, i was told they were putting me on 2 tablets a day. i have a number of other conditions so chances were more tablets, more complications. i said no. i would try diet first.that worked. except they would not and still wont give me strips.can only afford to test FBS.bought own meter etc. a year ago i landed up having to have 4 courses of steroid tablets in 4 months.FBS shot up. from 3.5 to 12. without strips i would not have known that.their answer was not more strips/testing but after waiting till the steroids were out of my system they then put me on 1 metformin a day (being careful because of my IBS) then 2 months later 2 daily. they informed me if i was ok on them they would up it more. i said no you wont. why, if im only borderline normally? surely it only needs increasing if i have to go on steroids again or bloods go up for some reason as i get older? the docs answer? well we dont know what your bloods are doing rest of each day. i was disgusted... told her no you wont, yu wont give me strips to find out, you would rather shove pills down my throat without knowing what they are doing to me.had to stop the 2nd metformin anyway. it did affect my IBS. so only on 1 now. told the nurse i had stopped the 2nd one. she said ok. fine.and that was that. if it was fine then why put me on 2 in first place? obviously wasnt needed. did some research and discovered its cheaper to give you loads of tablets than strips for the only meters they can prescribe. (I use SD Codefree meter and strips and the strips are only £7 for 50 as opposed to over £20 for the ones they prescribe...whose ripping the NHS off????) [/QUOTE]
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