Blood ketone test strips?

[delb t]

no major issues- I did request 2 glucogel jab kits as we had always had 2- ours are near renewal date and H would often leave it at his mates by mistake {call me greedy or organised]- docs said no - I said if it were his child im sure he would have 2- so team kindly faxed this request to them as we go on hols soon and they like us to have 2 of everything and hey ho sorted

 

[PattiEvans]

I was given urine strips when I was first diagnosed as they were confused which Type I was and were worried that I might suddenly go into DKA.

I did look at trying to get some more because they are useful for seeing if you have been given sugar-free when ordering soft drinks in a bar. But these days I more often order a coffee.

You can actually buy the urine strips over the counter and they are quite cheap.

 

[Northerner]

I was given urine strips when I was first diagnosed as they were confused which Type I was and were worried that I might suddenly go into DKA.

I did look at trying to get some more because they are useful for seeing if you have been given sugar-free when ordering soft drinks in a bar. But these days I more often order a coffee.

Actually, I think you are confusing ketostix with glucostix - the ketostix won't tell you whether your drink has sugar in it but the glucostix will. I believe they are around ?5 for 50.

 

[Tina63]

We have managed to get ketone strips for the Optium Xceed from our GP, but he has stressed that they are very expensive (?28 for 10 I believe??) so to only use sparingly. Apart from just after diagnosis, we have only used them once for a 24 hour period, and once a friend came and asked to have a box of ours when her son was vomiting violently (and ended up being taken into hospital) so I just keep a note of the expiry date and order more when the date is next month. So far no issues with that and it's on his repeat prescription so I can order them as and when needed.

With the glucogon hypo kit that wasn't on the repeat, but when putting in a general repeat I added it in the comments box saying I needed one to replace one nearing expiry and it was with the rest of his stuff when I collected it a couple of days later.

 

[Mark T]

Actually, I think you are confusing ketostix with glucostix - the ketostix won't tell you whether your drink has sugar in it but the glucostix will. I believe they are around ?5 for 50.

Sorry I should have been clearer - they were Ketone and Gluco stix 🙂

 

[PattiEvans]

We have managed to get ketone strips for the Optium Xceed from our GP, but he has stressed that they are very expensive (?28 for 10 I believe??)

?19 actually to the NHS

Northener, I was confusing ketostix with Glucostix... nontheless you can buy in the chemist.

 

[grandma]

I get them no problum started with them when I got the pump done lots of test with them this last 2 week with my BGs being up like they have and no Ketones thank God🙂

 

[Ruth Goode]

I started with urine strips, few time there was high ketone on them so I took C in hospital but in there they used blood ketone strip and it was less bad as its more accurate so I asked DSN for blood strips to save us going in hospital and they were happy to prescribe them for us 🙂

 

[Northerner]

It's good to hear that the majority of people have got the blood ketone strips without any bother 🙂

 

[Monkey]

Nope. My gp begrudgingly prescribed them in my 2nd pregnancy but not on repeat and won't prescribe normally.