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<blockquote data-quote="ebony321" data-source="post: 196654" data-attributes="member: 17199"><p>I hope you will challenge this decision before resorting to buying your own.</p><p></p><p>by your profile it says you are on oral medication, if this medication can induce hypo's then i believe you are entitled to strips on prescription.</p><p></p><p>If you drive you need to frequently test during long trips and EVERY time before you drive.</p><p></p><p>Ask your doctor if this is the case as i'm sure he/she would not want to be held responsible for you not testing and something happening!</p><p></p><p>Tell your doctor you want to be pro-active in your OWN treatment, that in your eyes a hba1c every 3-6 months is not suitable as any changes that may need to be made could have been made months earlier and a hba1c would show these changes too late for you to put things into action straight away.</p><p></p><p>Say that you want to use diet and exercise alongside medication to keep your diabetes controlled, that you want to test to see what the affects of food and exercise have on your readings which will not be shown by just a hba1c.</p><p></p><p>That you have had retinopathy and want to keep this problem limited by testing and adjusting factors around you where possible.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately it's a story that is told far too often, that more and more people are being encouraged to rely on one blood test, that people could be doing very well by testing then suddenly it's taken away and their diabetes control can start to slip because of it.</p><p></p><p>It's worrying people are being told not to test and i hope your Dr will see that it's an essential tool in your diabetes.</p><p></p><p>All the best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ebony321, post: 196654, member: 17199"] I hope you will challenge this decision before resorting to buying your own. by your profile it says you are on oral medication, if this medication can induce hypo's then i believe you are entitled to strips on prescription. If you drive you need to frequently test during long trips and EVERY time before you drive. Ask your doctor if this is the case as i'm sure he/she would not want to be held responsible for you not testing and something happening! Tell your doctor you want to be pro-active in your OWN treatment, that in your eyes a hba1c every 3-6 months is not suitable as any changes that may need to be made could have been made months earlier and a hba1c would show these changes too late for you to put things into action straight away. Say that you want to use diet and exercise alongside medication to keep your diabetes controlled, that you want to test to see what the affects of food and exercise have on your readings which will not be shown by just a hba1c. That you have had retinopathy and want to keep this problem limited by testing and adjusting factors around you where possible. Unfortunately it's a story that is told far too often, that more and more people are being encouraged to rely on one blood test, that people could be doing very well by testing then suddenly it's taken away and their diabetes control can start to slip because of it. It's worrying people are being told not to test and i hope your Dr will see that it's an essential tool in your diabetes. All the best. [/QUOTE]
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