Diabetes

[Davy]

Recent report says there is 270k people in Scotland diagnosed with type 1 or 2 diabetes...I am one who was diagnosed a couple of years ago and now taking tablets. There are, experts reckon a further 40k undiagnosed and increasing year on year. Now obviously at the moment prescriptions are free. I get two different types of tables in addition to thyroid tabs, stomach acid tabs and cholestrial tabs. I also have a blood glucose monitor and the testing strips alone cost 30 for 50 which does 25 days at most.

My thoughts are, that multiply myself by 200k and it is easy to see that one health condition is going to cause tremendous strain on the NHS budget and I cannot see free prescriptions lasting forever.

 

[egb_hibs]

Clearly diabetes has multiple causes but the instances related to diet will be one contributor to all this noise about obesity and diet costing more than smoking - and without funding the NHS through tax as smokers do.

That said the kind of state moralising that kicks in is a bit selective - ie those who cost the NHS through food, drink or smoking (though the NHS make a massive profit on the third and possibly the second) are chastised for their behaviour but not those who cost the system through stds or abortions or what have you. The influence of the new religion again possibly.

In any case the NHS is indeed going to struggle with the cost of all these things however judgemental or not it becomes.

It needs reformed if it is too survive as we'd all like. But the suggestion is met with fury, pretty much ensuring that ultimately it won't do.

Lastly, I am sorry to learn you are afflicted with this condition Davy. I've known plenty folk who are also and it seems to me that if managed properly you can get on with your life. I hope that is the case with you.

 

[Davy]

Clearly diabetes has multiple causes but the instances related to diet will be one contributor to all this noise about obesity and diet costing more than smoking - and without funding the NHS through tax as smokers do.

That said the kind of state moralising that kicks in is a bit selective - ie those who cost the NHS through food, drink or smoking (though the NHS make a massive profit on the third and possibly the second) are chastised for their behaviour but not those who cost the system through stds or abortions or what have you. The influence of the new religion again possibly.

In any case the NHS is indeed going to struggle with the cost of all these things however judgemental or not it becomes.

It needs reformed if it is too survive as we'd all like. But the suggestion is met with fury, pretty much ensuring that ultimately it won't do.

Lastly, I am sorry to learn you are afflicted with this condition Davy. I've known plenty folk who are also and it seems to me that if managed properly you can get on with your life. I hope that is the case with you.

Didn't bother me first two years, but since going on tabs I have joined a gym and changed diet..already I hardly even need the stomach acid tabs (lanzoprazole)

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If you're not already a member,apply for My diabetes my way.It's a Scottish government initiative,you get direct access to your diabetic medical records and some very good advice,it's been invaluable to me.

Thanks, Il look into it