What equipment do you get on the NHS?

[NorthernLightss]

I'm in Scotland, if that's relevant.

If prediabetic, would the NHS usually provide a home testing kit, or ask you to attend for testing at regular internals? How often would you test your blood sugar levels?

And if you score at the low end of the type 2 scale, again what equipment would you expect to be prescribed? How often would you check your blood sugar levels?

Thanks.

I'm in England. I was briefly in the Diabetic range. I bought myself a monitor as it's not provided on the NHS.

I have a HBA1C annually. I test my bloods before eating and then two hours after.

Yellreder have you managed to reverse your status from type 2? Well done.

@NorthernLightss - I had a reading that was just in the Diabetic range, then three months later it was in the pre-Diabetic range having eaten to my meter. Due another test in a couple of months, but my meter readings currently are a little erratic, so I have no idea how that will go!

Thanks. I'm prediabetic, and wondering whether I should expect a meter and strips to be prescribed to use at home, whether I'm expected to buy them, or be monitored occasionally at the gp surgery.

I work in a surgery and our patients are invited to a pre diabetic review. Then 6 months a blood test. But no monitor or anything unless they get into the bracket of being a diabetic. If your concerned and rather keep an eye on it you can buy one from a chemist but heard they are expensive

They are roughly a tenner to buy a meter. You get some strips free. The pots of 50 strips is roughly £20. But I haven't researched the cheapest +I would I do was not type 1).

There is lots of negatively recently in here backing up types 1 frustration over being.lumpednin with type 2. I tried to get across the benefits of being diagnosed T1 over t2.

I get a pump, insulin, libre sensors (continuous glucose monitor) and strips. Been T1 for 25+ years and I definitely 'need' all of this.

As a t2 that didn't fit the normal symptoms I would be insisting I got a c-peptide test to check which type I was. Not all late diagnosis are t2.

Thanks everyone.

I am T2 and the only thing I get is a prescription card so I don't have to pay for my drugs. I'm in Metformin and Astorvastation (sp). I have a yearly eye check (due in a couple of weeks) and an annual check with the nurse. This now comprises of taking in a sample and giving blood and having my feet prodded! When the results come in they will do one of three things: call me to see a doctor, call me to see a nurse or do nothing....... I fall into the do nothing category and had to beg the receptionist for my reading. Originally diagnosed in 51, last year it was 47 and this year it's 49 so not too bad but need to get it down again. The medical advise now is if you are T2 and on medication you don't need to test which is why you probably won't be given a meter.

There is also now medical thinking that there could be up to 5 different strains of diabetes and to put people into a T1 or T2 bracket might not be doing them any good.

Reading this does show the disparity across the country though.