so went to see the GP tonight. had all printed out, underlined the most relevant part. i even added to it the 6 principals of duties of a doctor by the good medical practice from the general medical council's core guidance for doctors(this was from a big poster in the surgery waiting room btw). it lasted for 25 minutes, and i'm still not getting the care i should get!!! still getting a prescription for 3 strips a day!!!
he even dared sayin that 3 strips a day still is excessive, and that he never said that the NHS guidance are to prescribed 3 strips a day maximum. When my HBAc1 was 7.4 he was calling it high. i used this to show that by doing even less testing so i dont run out of strips it went up to 7.7. u know what, now apparently 7.7 is a good HBAc1!!!
anyway, he said that now that i am seein an endo (i wasnt before) he must follow what the endo says, and the endo wrote a letter to the GP to say that i was requesting more strips and that more than 2 a day were excessive. (btw, the endo also called me "overweight". i'm a size 10!!! not a size zero ok, but COME ON!).
Deus, i also told him about Diabetes UK, involving them further and involving the local press. He said i was very eloquent and made my point clear but that he would not do anything unless the endo or the diabetes nurse at the hospital tell him otherwise.
Well, i'll try again with the diabetes nurse, i will call back D UK in the meantime, and if i dont get my 4x50 a month i'll call the local press. i've already started to put together my tests results to prove that the less i test the upper my HBAc1 goes, and i'll be reading more. Will also visit the website advertised in the surgery for good practice,
GMC | Guidance for doctors.
Very very pissed off!! Wanna scream! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
here we go, feelin a bit better
PS i noticed that diabetics are not the only people they dont care about. there is no systems to help deaf and hard of hearing people communicate and the fire alarm is not equipped for them! i did tell him, he did respond but he did shut up for a mo!
