Testing Strips

I'd advise you to go over the nurses head and speak to your GP, I've done that and the GP thinks that self monitoring is a good idea for me, so getting a prescription for test strips and lancets wasn't a problem.

Even after handing the nurse my results today and her finding them really useful, to the extent that she said the monitoring was proving I was doing the right things, she still tried to tell me I don't need to monitor at all.