Not sure if this has been posted before, but I saw the offer in a Chemmart catalogue. Specific details are found in the link, but the catalogue was advertising $0 Accu-chek proforma meter kit after $40 cashback.
$0 Accu-Chek after Cashback - Chemmart
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Despite being a great machine with many functions, AccuChek Mobile cassettes are only government-subsidised for Type 1 diabetics, meaning (unless you're Type 1 diabetic) you'll be slugged each time you need to buy a new cassette
There's plenty of similar deals at chemists, the condition is that you have to be diabetic to qualify.
But then, in a philosophical sense, agent we ALL diabetic?
lucky diabetics.
Yeah, they get all the good stuff. Free glucometers, heart disease, neuropathic feet, retinopathy… all the good stuff.
the condition is that you have to be diabetic to qualify.
Pretty sure most Ozbargainers would qualify…
If you're in Victoria, Diabetes Vic are sending out a form for a free meter (choice of 3 different meters) with membership renewal forms if you were a 2014 member.
How does one become a member? Just your word or does it require a proper blood test from doc saying you're diabetic?
Wonder if anyone has loaded up on sugar before the blood tests and complained of pins and needles and whatever the other early onset symptoms are.
A classmate in highschool had diabetes and when he wanted to get out of religious education class (or any for that matter) he'd feign illness and say he needed to go get a bottle of coke and then would have me 'escort' him in case he feinted or anything. Cheeky bugger.
Diabetes is not usually diagnosed on one blood test. It requires multiple high BSLs, possibly after fasting, and possibly a measurement of HbA1c, which you can't fake.
Ah, now I know. Thanks. Going to find out what HbA1c is.
I've always taken tests with a pinch of salt and that they can all be faked or misdiagnosed. I'm sure there's a way, it's either secret or not discovered yet.
Any good doctor will only consider test results in the context of the greater clinical picture. That's why we still need doctors and don't just go visit the pathology lab to get diagnosed with stuff.
@jazoom: Doctors are human, therefore not infallible.
Heck there are even surgeons operating and they're not supposed to be. There are bad docs and corrupt docs.
Not saying anyone deliberately wants to be labeled diabetic or that it's the same as getting a blind-eyed sickie note, but if someone wanted to, well when there's a will, there's a way.
Even a good doc won't be right 100% or even 90% of the time. It's because of them we use the term 'second opinion'.
Eating a lot of sugar doesn't give false results. It calculates how your body rids the sugar before the glucose 75g liquid, 60 mins later then 120 minutes later. Unless actually diagnosed by a health. Professional GP etc… You will not get the free one as above. Once diagnosed your details are in the system. So you cannot get this unless you are a diabetic. People need to take diabetes a little more seriously. I don't think it's a subject that should be based around jokes and "they get all the good stuff"
Agree. My curiosity was as an intellectual challenge of how it works etc rather than gaming the system.
However not to put diabetics down as much of it could be their parents letting them overconsume sugar or being a genetic case, they can still control it and I've heard it's possible to reverse it. Not sure if it's Type 2 or 1 though. But it's possible.
It's all in the choices we make.
It can be, but I got gestational diabetes, turned my life around and dieted, lost weight, made healthier houses to only become a diabetic 12 months later. It can just happen unfortunately. Mine is from gestational d, genetics. Type 2 can be controlled but not reversed. Once diagnosis is done you'll have it for life. Controlling your lifestyle and foods etc is not easy. So I feel for these young children who have diabetes and anyone. It's hard. So a free monitor isn't really something we are going to appreciate for all the hard work that needs to be done and the lifetime of spending money on lancets and tabs and pricking your finger 6 times a day and stabbing yourself with insulin. But if people think we get all the GOOD STUFF… we don't. You do. You can go eat that chocolate or ice cream or pizza without a worry. I can't. :) it's very hard to come to terms with for anyone diagnosed. rant over.
Maybe Type 1 is the one that can be reversed then. I've known people that have become indepedent of insulin (from a pen that is), if not dramatically reducing the dose and frequency.
Too many Terms and Conditions…
yeah cashback is on most of there's
love the mobile one has tape instead of strips
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