jlarsson
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Just thought I'd weigh in on how I am personally am extremely fortunate especially when it comes to the Libre as someone not originally from the UK and still regularly visit my home town and keep using the healthcare system there because that's where I was diagnosed and that's where I spent the first 24 years of my life. They treat me and prescribe me medication with the full knowledge that I no longer live there and arrange appointments based on my visits through my mother to whom I signed over the full rights for arranging my appointments and picking up my medication.
So, when I went back for the summer last year and informed them of my recent struggles with my blood sugar management leading to vision problems and all the rest of it, they informed me of this new thing that makes it easier to manage it called Freestyle Libre and asked me if I was interested in trying it. Me being a recluse that has never bothered going to any of those social gatherings for diabetics or really had any friends with it or until recently followed any forums or news sites regarding it, I had never heard of it but was intrigued and decided to try it. The nurse then leaves the room, comes back with a bag of 6 sensors not counting the one I was just about to put on and a reader, gave it to me free of charge(similar system to the NHS) telling me that it should be enough for a while and then just ask for more. Due to having signed over the rights to my mother to allow for her to pick up my medication, she now gets them for me sent to her house and then have them sent to me in the post to my flat here in London. The only payment(excluding the taxes to cover the healthcare system, obviously) is sending the package in the post, rather than buying the sensors privately or having to go to ASDA or however it works here.
The following picture is what I received over Christmas when I went back.
So, when I went back for the summer last year and informed them of my recent struggles with my blood sugar management leading to vision problems and all the rest of it, they informed me of this new thing that makes it easier to manage it called Freestyle Libre and asked me if I was interested in trying it. Me being a recluse that has never bothered going to any of those social gatherings for diabetics or really had any friends with it or until recently followed any forums or news sites regarding it, I had never heard of it but was intrigued and decided to try it. The nurse then leaves the room, comes back with a bag of 6 sensors not counting the one I was just about to put on and a reader, gave it to me free of charge(similar system to the NHS) telling me that it should be enough for a while and then just ask for more. Due to having signed over the rights to my mother to allow for her to pick up my medication, she now gets them for me sent to her house and then have them sent to me in the post to my flat here in London. The only payment(excluding the taxes to cover the healthcare system, obviously) is sending the package in the post, rather than buying the sensors privately or having to go to ASDA or however it works here.
The following picture is what I received over Christmas when I went back.