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Whilst that's all well and good, and you're entitled to your opinion, I'm not sure what additional drugs you expect to assist with T1. Whilst development of solutions seems slow, we tend to forget that 100 years ago there was only just a cure, extracted initially from a dog. Recombinant DNA enabling the more effective analogues isn't a technique that existed in even the 1960s. I think your comment about lousy drugs is therefore a little unfair.I disagree, the complications come from us being taught the rubbish we are, the lousy drugs we are given and lack of education. I'm sick of the sugar coated nonsense we are taught and read from our health organisations that are blatantly coining it in and making a career out of keeping us all needing to see them like we do with no re avail and reliant on dangerously high doses of insulin or other drugs like statins. Earlier reading on here someone on nearly 300 units a day. After using the libre free for two weeks I self funded for another 2 months. In the first week, picked up on low carb via dr Bernstein, within 3 weeks hb1ca predicted at 5.4 was a 8.6 last test 1 month before. I always carb counted, avoided fast food, ate whole gran low gi foods. would have one treat a week of take away. Lowest sugar/fat one there is. Very hard and wouldn't dream of eating any now. (I changed that not the libre that was accurate only some of the time meaning finger pricks are nessasary still)
A libre may help us get on the right track to start with but that's all it's good for. Showing us patterns that's when they are accurate enough. it will not stop the statistics of the people with our disease who are uneducated or just ignore what we have and just eat what they want and drink alcohol in the amounts that some diabetics do. I've witnessed this first, second and third hand in my life.
I'm not going to disagree with you on lack of education, and that the education that is given doesn't necessarily offer the best advice though.
I think that your final point is a little unreasonable though. Whilst there will always be those who don't care, changing the paradigm of how people observe themselves can make a big difference to the outcomes. As long as there is appropriate education given, the shift to Libre could well be a major change for a significant portion of those who currently find themselves in this situation.