I have a meter I bought myself oiver three years ago, but I thought I never got any strips with it, until I found strips in another cupboard just last week!
I am also going to the nurse with my meter to be shown how to use it, because I had the needle puncture at number 4 but it barely punctured my skin, and I could not squeeze enough blood out onto the strip for it to register, freedom lite meter just kept showing to add blood to the strip.
I am also taking thyroxin tablets as years ago, as a man in my twenties, I had the radioactive drink to kill some of my repeatingly overactive thyroid gland, and now my gland is more underactive.
I am also on astorvastatin because of my cholesterol levels.
I read over one year ago that statins may increase the risk of type2 diabetes, but I ever only saw one article in the Daily Mail on it and never saw anythng more about it.
NHS Article says this, 9% increase in diabetes from statin use, or have I got that wrong - 2nd paragraph of "What were the basic results?" section, but this diabetics.do.uk site says that diabetics should take statins:
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/02February/Pages/statins-high-cholesterol-diabetes.aspx
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-medication/diabetes-and-statins.html
Could it not be the case that whatever the statins are doing to the liver, the liver then gets screwed up and produces more sugar?
*EDIT* I never saw the links at the bottom of the second link above. I do see that it does link to the research that statins can increase type 2 diabetes!