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Sue R
DAFNE Graduate
NHS Grampian 3 posts |
Hi |
Pedro
DAFNE Graduate
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2 posts |
Hello Sue, |
jovifreak
DAFNE Graduate
East Lancashire Hospitals Diabetes Team 4 posts |
I buy my glucotabs from Boots, sometimes I haven't been able to find them on the shelves but if you go to the counter they will order them for you from their catalogue and tell you when they have been delivered, then you just pay when you collect. I've never found them in my local Asda. |
SimonC
DAFNE Graduate
NHS Harrow 78 posts |
glucotabs are not on prescription - Asda do them, but I think it has to be the bigger Asdas, in the 10 tablets and 50 tablets containers, my local Boots does them in the handy 10 tablet containers, and my local independent chemists have agreed to stock the 50 tablet containers for me. |
mandyrobertson9
DAFNE Graduate
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 10 posts |
The medical shop have just started stocking a key ring that has a container which holds 4 glucotabs. Received an e-mail from them the other day and have ordered a couple to try. The 10 tablet tubes are great but I think this key chain idea will be a wonderful alternative. I always have keys on me but seem to spend ages trying to locate a 10 tablet tube at times before i leave the house! |
JayBee
DAFNE Graduate
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 587 posts |
I've still only really seen them in ASDA... bought both the tubes and the pot now! The pot was very hard to open when I went hypo so I recommend opening it before the next potential hypo situation. ^_^; |
laurals11
DAFNE Graduate
NHS Lanarkshire 11 posts |
I use a Gluco-carry attached to my keyring.You can get one to fit Dextrosol or Glucotabs http://www.gluco-carry.com/order.html |
Matilda 2 posts |
I get mine on prescription |
PNThompson
DAFNE Graduate
North East London NHS Foundation Trust (Havering and Redbridge) 57 posts |
Last year during DAFNE, it was suggested that Glucotabs should be available on prescription, but think it depends on your GP, as one of the people could get them while the rest of us couldn't. |