Diabetes Talking

Question:

With lantus and Novorapid if you are not desk bound it is very difficult to maintain a steady 4-7 throughout the day. Then add excercise, eat slightly more or slightly less, or something you are not quite used too…it is asking a lot to use just 6 strips a day (not that I am very close to that – more like 8-12). An unpedictable day, stress and exercise make things more difficult. Either the resources to check our own glucose levels are there or they are not.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I wrote to my GP, as he asked me to eplain why I was using an (admittedly excessive) up to 12 strips a day. I  wrote that I excercised most days, also walked a lot (photographer), was out a lot, am on lantus and novorpid, and I am admittedly over tight – ie use too much novorapid with food. I complained in the letter that he shouldn’t just withold a script (still waiting over a week later). I suggested that he should have given a stronger idea of what an acceptable number of strips was. Because I don’t quite live in his catchment area (though he’s known that for 3 years) and I phoned his emergency number too ask him again too prescribe me overdue strips….he’s scrubbed me off his patient list. Without sending me a new script as well. Without writing to me. Without phoning. Just got a letter from health authority with obligatory "we can’t tell you why your GP has dumped you" but nontheless your GP doesn’t want anything to do with you…you are the weakest link etc etc. And to think I was complaining about 400 strips a month. Silly me. Must learn to suck a bit softer. This GP, as I said in another post, is a Diabetes Consultant at the hospital I go to. Sure there is a moral somewhere… I don’t know what meter you’re using but a pack of 50 Accu-Chek Advantage test strips costs about