Test Strips and Diabetes in General

[Guest guest]

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