I'm fairly newly diagnosed as well.. And also was warned that in time, they wouldn't be doing test strips or lancets on prescription.. Which seems crazy to me.. A condition that needs you to be aware of something (your blood sugar) means you can't have prescription access to the equipment to monitor it..
I order all my lancets and test strips from amazon... The price is the lowest I've seen (I'm on agamatrix jazz like I suspect most newly diagnosed people are)... As these are purely for diabetes, although amazon charge 20% vat you can get them at zero vat...
The process is fairly simple once you worked out how to do it with amazon... (Took me a few phone calls and emails for them to cotton on..) Basically order your items.. Then fill in a form.. Listing the order number, cost etc and email it to amazon... They then refund 20% of the order...
Let me know if you want me to post a copy of the form and the email address etc..
For me testing and knowing my levels helps me control it... I'd still rather NOT pay for them.. But my health is too important to do without...
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