becca59
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Insulin
£90 every 4 weeks.You say you self fund it if I might ask how much is it costing you??
£90 every 4 weeks.You say you self fund it if I might ask how much is it costing you??
The medical exemption certificate in the UK covers prescriptions costs not all medical stuff, so if we haven't got it on prescription then the certificate doesn't cover it.Do you not have a Medical exemptions certificate because that should cover your diabetes care including test strips which I would think that bit should be covered by a Medical exemptions certificate
It should not be part of the criteria as given the price is it certainly not affordable by all - it is also not mentioned as necessary on the NHS England guidelines for approval. Though it may be used as a extra bonus point if you have been using it and its improved your control.They will ask you about self funding. I think it was part of the criteria.
It should not be part of the criteria as given the price is it certainly not affordable by all - it is also not mentioned as necessary on the NHS England guidelines for approval. Though it may be used as a extra bonus point if you have been using it and its improved your control.
Thanks for that link Scott. Some very useful info during the webinar!There's a series of educational videos about it here:
https://abcd.care/dtn/education
There's not a lot to it really, if you can use a bg meter, you can use a libre, but it gives way more information.
To be honest, some docs have worn one for two weeks just to get the idea of it, whereas many patients have used them for several years, so it's no exaggeration to say the patients do actually much more about them than the docs do!
Yeah, I was just meaning it wasn't required that you have to have self-funded - though I may not have worded it very wellThere's a mention of self-funding in the crtieria to cater for folks who have already tightened up through self-funding, along the lines of if you can show you would have met the criteria before you self-funded libre, you'll still get it:
Thanks for that link Scott. Some very useful info during the webinar!
Yes I would say take it it very helpfulHello @Noemergencyexit.com welcome to the forum from another T1 and Libre user.
I afraid they are not 100% accurate and to be honest nothing is 100% accurate even blood test meters but the are accurate enough to enable your to control and manage your diabetese
Libre as @MeiChanski and others offer you the ability to use the trends which indicates where you are going up or down the old blood sugar scale, which is useful if you think you may be heading towards a hypo.
If your being offered one then take it with both hands you may well be presently surprised at what you find out
I was wondering if you use the freestyle libre and if so what do you think of it? If yo can please let me know what you think about it and if you would recommend it to others