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<blockquote data-quote="navigator" data-source="post: 1123356" data-attributes="member: 206962"><p>My Brother has been type 2 for a number of years and has a number of related side effects.</p><p>As he is on disability living allowance he has received his strips lancets and insulin supply free .</p><p>The BS test machines are free from a number manufacturers and I have got him two ,via links on the Diabetes UK web site</p><p>And on one occasion the practice nurse gave him a tester. I can see that the strips and lancets are different for each manufacturer. So it seems these are a loss leader. However The GP will not or cannot put the strips on repeat [50 a month]. The same with the lancets. His hbA1c result was 40-42 for the second time in 6 months.On the subject of the frequency of the hbA1c testing it seems that most sources advise yearly testing! What would be a useful frequency?</p><p>For example, my wife who is 72, as just been advised that she is pre-diabetes with an hbA1c value of 42-47. It seems to me that the next one in 12 months is not very useful. Her GP's advice was straight forward. Plenty of exercise and low sugar diet plan, and lose some weight.</p><p>No mention of BS testing or a follow up blood test</p><p>Strips are around £15 a set of 50. Lancets less. So should we get my wife to start BS testing?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="navigator, post: 1123356, member: 206962"] My Brother has been type 2 for a number of years and has a number of related side effects. As he is on disability living allowance he has received his strips lancets and insulin supply free . The BS test machines are free from a number manufacturers and I have got him two ,via links on the Diabetes UK web site And on one occasion the practice nurse gave him a tester. I can see that the strips and lancets are different for each manufacturer. So it seems these are a loss leader. However The GP will not or cannot put the strips on repeat [50 a month]. The same with the lancets. His hbA1c result was 40-42 for the second time in 6 months.On the subject of the frequency of the hbA1c testing it seems that most sources advise yearly testing! What would be a useful frequency? For example, my wife who is 72, as just been advised that she is pre-diabetes with an hbA1c value of 42-47. It seems to me that the next one in 12 months is not very useful. Her GP's advice was straight forward. Plenty of exercise and low sugar diet plan, and lose some weight. No mention of BS testing or a follow up blood test Strips are around £15 a set of 50. Lancets less. So should we get my wife to start BS testing? [/QUOTE]
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