Re: Test Strips and Diabetes in General

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Test Strips and Diabetes in General

Good Sunday morning to everyone,

I go to the VA since I am a blinded veteran. I took my meter with me. My

blood sugar has been runing 160 in the morning and this morning it was 160

and two hours later after breakfast it was 189. I had a piece of toaast one

piece of bacon and a scrambled egg with chese. The first time I went in for

my a1c the pa blew me off and told me my blood sugar after fasting was 92

that morning but they did not do an a1c. They did all of the blood work but

an a1c was forgotten and when I asked about it they got indignent and told

me well your blood sugar was 92, I told them I did not understand how when

my meter says it was 160 after washing my hands and squeezing the finger and

wiping off the first blood sample and then taking a reading on the second

blood sample. Well I told them that I was taking 2500 mg of metformin and 4

mg of glimperide all generics. But they don't seem to want to address the

problem. They re-did the a1c and told me that I was in control and that my

a1c was 6.8, I showed the doctor my glucometer with the readings I had and

he told me I was in control. I called the glucometer company this morning

and they told me they would send me some control solution to check my meter

and asked me how long I had my test strips. I was told that I should disgard

my test strips after 90 days of being open and open a new bottle. I know

this is more of a rant about mistreatment but at this time I have no

insurance but looking for opinions about getting this ole diabetes in

control. Prodigy AutoCode talking meter.

Thank You in advance to everyone