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<blockquote data-quote="bystander" data-source="post: 242744" data-attributes="member: 40526"><p>Just because the NHS service will not provide test strips due to cost does not make hypos not an issue! You know and I know that what diabetics need and what they actually get are two vastly different things!</p><p>Until the NHS realise that diabetics can control their diabetes in some cases by simply reducing carbs and watching what they eat they will continue to try and not issue test strips. There is a petition on here to that effect I believe.</p><p>When was the last time you heard a HCP use the word 'carbohydrate' to a new diabetic? They go on about 'sugars' instead muddying the issue altogether and causing untold harm to those who could have been better controlled if only they had the right information.</p><p>You are right that without testing most people cannot tell if the feeling they are having is hypo or hyper, even very experienced diabetics don't know.</p><p>As I said earlier the medical profession think only of a hypo as medicine induced so they think only in those terms for test strips. We know that is not so but then we are 'only' diabetics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bystander, post: 242744, member: 40526"] Just because the NHS service will not provide test strips due to cost does not make hypos not an issue! You know and I know that what diabetics need and what they actually get are two vastly different things! Until the NHS realise that diabetics can control their diabetes in some cases by simply reducing carbs and watching what they eat they will continue to try and not issue test strips. There is a petition on here to that effect I believe. When was the last time you heard a HCP use the word 'carbohydrate' to a new diabetic? They go on about 'sugars' instead muddying the issue altogether and causing untold harm to those who could have been better controlled if only they had the right information. You are right that without testing most people cannot tell if the feeling they are having is hypo or hyper, even very experienced diabetics don't know. As I said earlier the medical profession think only of a hypo as medicine induced so they think only in those terms for test strips. We know that is not so but then we are 'only' diabetics. [/QUOTE]
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