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- Type of diabetes
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- Insulin
Hello all,
As some of you may remember, I was having issues doing the finger pricking. My hypersensitivity did not help. So I called the DN team and was told to come to the drop in today.
I meet a nurse who proceeded to tell me that I had no choice but to do the finger pricking and it doesn’t hurt because she is diabetic.
There was no option. It was basically, you need to do this because you need to be on insulin before you get pregnant and during that time you’ll be doing it 4 times a day. She then went in to tell me that I’ll be diabetic all my life so I need to get used to it.
She said the Libre is not worth the money and that did I want to be paying almost £100 a month for something that is not accurate.
I told her if this is what I’ll be going through then I’ll start looking at adoption. I think this must have had an effect because she started talking about alternative testing sites and getting me equipment for that.
I’m not sure that I’m cut out for insulin and I’m really upset. She is going to be running the clinic next week and I feel like changing my appointment date to avoid her.
Sorry to rant.
As some of you may remember, I was having issues doing the finger pricking. My hypersensitivity did not help. So I called the DN team and was told to come to the drop in today.
I meet a nurse who proceeded to tell me that I had no choice but to do the finger pricking and it doesn’t hurt because she is diabetic.
There was no option. It was basically, you need to do this because you need to be on insulin before you get pregnant and during that time you’ll be doing it 4 times a day. She then went in to tell me that I’ll be diabetic all my life so I need to get used to it.
She said the Libre is not worth the money and that did I want to be paying almost £100 a month for something that is not accurate.
I told her if this is what I’ll be going through then I’ll start looking at adoption. I think this must have had an effect because she started talking about alternative testing sites and getting me equipment for that.
I’m not sure that I’m cut out for insulin and I’m really upset. She is going to be running the clinic next week and I feel like changing my appointment date to avoid her.
Sorry to rant.