I think my doctor's advice has a warped sense of logic to it. His idea is that if you know the right way to eat, then you won't need to test as much. To me, that's like saying that if you take a course in auto mechanics, you won't need to take your car in as often since knowing how your car should run, anything that doesn't sound right or feel right you'll be able to detect, so why take the car in if you don't hear or feel anything strange.
I figured I'll throw it in his face the next time I'm in his office by concocting this story......When he asks me how I'm doing on the meds, I'm going to tell him that I guess I'm doing okay, but on numerous occasions when I haven't been able to eat when I wanted (like when I'm mowing the lawn, which is a two hour job, or washing my cars), I think I went hypo (even though I never have) because I got real shaky and had trouble walking and trying to concentrate. I somehow managed to make it to the kitchen to eat a piece of fruit. I wanted to test my BG but I couldn't because I didn't have enough strips, since you don't think I need more than three a day.
If he should say, "well you should have just used a strip anyway, even if it made you short for the next day." To which I'll reply, "that's what I've been doing each time I've gotten shaky, but as it is now, I'm going to have to go for 3 days with no strips, and I didn't want to make it 4 days, so I didn't test."
Maybe that will rattle him enough to give me more strips.
