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<blockquote data-quote="NoCrbs4Me" data-source="post: 764223" data-attributes="member: 113206"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">You're experience is not unique. I didn't get a meter until about 6 months after being told I had type 2. I began reducing my carbs within hours of starting to use it, having been trying to follow the low fat high carb diet that we've been told is healthy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I kept on reducing until eventually I eat almost no carbs - just what's in fresh, nonstarchy veg.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">My doctor did not suggest I get one, even though I have private insurance that pays 100% of the cost of the strips. I got one not long after joining this forum and realizing that it was a necessity. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Interestingly, I got a new doctor and she said I don't need to test and had no interest in seeing my self testing results. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Anyway, it is rather odd about self testing and type 2 and the health care industry's attitude. They tell you to eat the "healthy" plate diet which has loads of carbs and not to test. Then they watch as your diabetes gets worse and worse and prescribe more and more meds until you die of some horrible diabetes complication. Or, you ignore their advice and get your diabetes under control and they are very surprised because very few of their patients have managed to do that.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NoCrbs4Me, post: 764223, member: 113206"] [SIZE=4]You're experience is not unique. I didn't get a meter until about 6 months after being told I had type 2. I began reducing my carbs within hours of starting to use it, having been trying to follow the low fat high carb diet that we've been told is healthy. I kept on reducing until eventually I eat almost no carbs - just what's in fresh, nonstarchy veg. My doctor did not suggest I get one, even though I have private insurance that pays 100% of the cost of the strips. I got one not long after joining this forum and realizing that it was a necessity. Interestingly, I got a new doctor and she said I don't need to test and had no interest in seeing my self testing results. Anyway, it is rather odd about self testing and type 2 and the health care industry's attitude. They tell you to eat the "healthy" plate diet which has loads of carbs and not to test. Then they watch as your diabetes gets worse and worse and prescribe more and more meds until you die of some horrible diabetes complication. Or, you ignore their advice and get your diabetes under control and they are very surprised because very few of their patients have managed to do that.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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