Fasting ??? :shock: me??? - NO way!!!:-D;-)
Chowder and clam cakes… [ATTACH]144.vB[/ATTACH] …yum! 
It only means 12 hours over night UJ, if you have your last food at 7.30 - 8 pm and the blood test at 8am you can have brekkie before 9 am.
(If you’re lucky enough to be able to get in at 8 a.m.)
Today’s lunch: cauliflower & cheese bake, mushrooms & peas; mandarines & yogurt
I was going to start the last box of last year’s blackberries but they’ve gone a bit … so they’ll have to go in the compost.
Yes I have had (fasting) blood tests [previously, but I like my food too much nowadays.
If you can’t fast for 12 hours you are likely to be uncontrolled diabetic UJ, you could have some nasty things happen if you don’t make the effort to get it under control. You are not getting your eyes tested either if you are not having the blood tests.
Yes Julie I do get my eyes tested - they’re done at a different doctor’s surgery so I do get reminders from them. In addition. my opticians also do an annual eye test too.
That’s good, it’s the one I hate as the drops mean I have to get someone to drive me, and get don’t half sting too.
We are only concerned about you UJ, you don’t want to end up like me!!!
Hello Uncle Joe darlin’ …
May I suggest to you that you will purchase a small blood test kit to do at home? Is just a little pick in you finger and it will tell to you the range that you are in. Is best to do this very first thing in the morning, and then again perhaps before you have you night times meal. My husband is Type II diabetic, and I am on him all the time to check his sugar levels…that way, he know that if he eat some thing he should not eat, it will elevate his blood sugar and THAT is when he not feel so great…I have train him to be vigilant of his sugar levels. He take insulin one time per day - 25 units - because when he is at home, I prepare for him only diabetic friendly meals (LOW carbohydrates & starch and of course sugars) and also I eat the same my own self… is better for the body anyway. When he will sneaking something like a donut (ick!) or white bread sandwich at work at lunch time - he KNOW that he should not after just one hour - he begins to feel badly and his vision blurs. Is not easy, I know that, to stay on a strict diet, but believe me when I tell to you that I have had many patient who have suffer some very severe consequences if they not adhere to a good diet…so many complications can occur. You are still young - is important to care for you self the bestest that you can. So - - I have all the faiths in you that you will be more watchful of you diet! 
Not worry - but please be careful because we want nothing to happening to you! From Gia with love…
Thank you for your concern Susie darlin’. I also get my feet looked at by the podiatrist since I can’t bend that far to trim my toe nails, so any potential neuropathy would be evident.
Gianetta darlin’ - its not the machine that is the problem, but the test strips which cost an exorbitant amount of money and they go out of date so fast too - so my surgery won’t permit it (I get free prescriptions).
What? Surgery not permit strips for the machine for you?? That is crazyness…here, we buy them for Steven for very little for a package of 200 strip and they not cost very much at all - even some time people who are no longer work can get them for free through the government programs…awww…please ask if they will help you by give to you a prescription for the strips may be? That is crazy that they not allow you to test at home for “prevention” purposes. They will rather wait until there is a big problem and then pay for you care?? I dunno - each country is difference I guess - but diabetes have become epidemic in the U.S. and they offering prevention testing all over. I wish I can prepare for you some meals that you will enjoy but alter so that they not hurtful to the pancreas… We not meaning to bully you, darlin’ Uncle Joe - we wish for you to be with us for a long long time, that all. I will not badger to you any more for this subject. Each person is control of they own body and some time it take a small crisis for patient to understand more better. I hope that not will happen for you, but some time is the best thing to draw attention to our health. Okay - that all I will say to you about it, my friend… I do not usually comment public about medical issues because it can frighten people…so I will stopping now. We care, thats all it is. xo Gia
Uncle Joe, that is terrible!:surprised: I have been diabetic for 30 years ( Type 1) and in all those years my doctor has provided blood test strips on free prescription. I get a pack of 50 strips, which last me about a month,and the expiry date on them is at least a year ahead. If you are on insulin these strips could save your life, so if that is the case, ask your surgery how they can expect you to control your blood sugar, if they don’t provide the means to do so?
Twink darlin’ I don’t think I am diabetic. Doctors surgeries get additional funding for every patient they have who are diabetic - which is why there has been a huge increase in the numbers who are diabetic these past few years. I eat sweets,chocolates, biscuits, cake and have no symptoms. I have been prescribed Metformin and providing I take that I’m fine!!!
Metformin is usually prescribed for type 2 diabetics, who are unable to produce enough insulin themselves, and it makes their own insulin work better. They can do a blood test, which doesn’t involve fasting, to check how the Metformin is controlling your blood sugar. Please think about asking for one, because high blood sugars can make you very ill, and we don’t want that to happen. 
The symptoms of diabetes are being thirsty a lot, going for a pee too often and tiredness… but many diabetics are not even aware that they have diabetes.
I get my test strips, prescriptions, needles, lancets etc. free.
Shortly will put in the oven a frozen (well, it’s in the fridge from today’s shop) fish pie, and will add crushed crisps and cheese on the top, and do some carrots and peas to go with.
I have T2 diabetes, taking Metformin. I have my hBA1c tested regularly. I WAS given a meter some years ago but I stopped testing myself and in fact when I requested some more strips was told that it is not necessary. I also have the retinopathy eye test and foot examination regularly.
There was a doctor saying that test strips weren’t necessary about 18 months ago, but if I didn’t use them I would have been 6 foot under a few times. I think it was an attempt to save money, but when you have dipped so low that you could have died, without the ability to check blood sugars, no good doctor would refuse them. I am type 1 and use insulin, so maybe that is where it differs.
I can see a need where it is imperative like in your case to regularly check. Maybe because I am on the Metformin and have the regular fasting tests they see no need for me to.
I don’t mind! 