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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ma5on" data-source="post: 73052" data-attributes="member: 13825">Thanks Jopar- Excellently put!I once fell into the 'won't' category, partly because of my own ignorance (and subsequent battle with Diabulimia), and later because I then became a 'can't'.My lowest HBA1C ever is my current one of 9.8%.  I test at the moment between 8 and 10 times, use corrective boluses where I think necessary and am now lo-carbing.  Despite a couple of fantastic weeks in the month I always come down to having 2 awful ones.At the moment I'm waiting to go on a Continuous Glucose Monitor which I hope will demonstrate the problems I am having.  This I have been told, is another citeria I have to meet before they will write to my PCT for funding.....I feel like an Olympic hurdler (7 years in and counting!)The crazy thing is, the daughter of a family friend was diagnosed 2 years ago aged 12.  She was put on a carb course within 2 months and offered a pump a year later (something her mother declined as she felt it would be too much after everything else!) - Too much too soon, maybe?  But she has fantastic control without one (partly due to her obsessive mother!)  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> They live in Norfolk so it really is the 'luck of the draw'!!!I think the thing to do is keep on til they get sick of you.  I have been asking Basingstoke for one since I moved there from Portsmouth PCT 2 years ago.  Tehy only took me seriously at my last appointment when I took all my BS records, food diaries and some studies on the benefits of pump therapy that I had found.  Instead of letting them run the appointment, I took over for once and they ended up getting the dietician to see me same day!Keep-on-pushing-til-they-get-sick-of you!!!!  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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