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Thread: Test strip provisions in the UK

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#26 (permalink)

12-20-2006, 04:23 PM

Fat Steve

Junior Member

I am a: Type 1.5

Join Date: Dec 2006

Location: UK

Posts: 16

Strip Rations

Most, even specialist Health Professionals are blase about strips and tests: My recommended tests are once a day, now and then. My ranges are 3.2 - ERR (over 30). I am now on a rangefinder mission using Lantus, but I am still testing four times a day. They want me on humalog too - maybe I could wash out one strip and use it again. But seriously - yea - they restrict. I get 10 bottles of insulin a month and 50 strips. I carry a meter in the car, so, given that they are individualised by chip, I am allowed 25 tests a month. Excuse me whilst i count my toes.