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Thanks for the reply. Yeah I had the letter too. Never needed to use it in the end but always worth taking!

I suspect it is the luck of the draw. But as long as you yourself are vigilant, then all should be fine.

Well I went on holiday and sure enough Heathrow proved to be a little **** because they didn’t really know what the device was. At least the person I was dealing with. He was telling me I could walk through the 3-D scanner, and I was telling him no I can’t because it kicks our x-rays. To which...

Hi and thanks for the reply. My only question there would be what about your CGM, because that’s not supposed to go through the scanner either because it can be damaged by x-rays. That also goes for any unused CGM monitors. I’ve read that I’m not supposed to put those through x-ray either. But...

Hi there, I got my insulin pump back in September 2025. I’m about to travel in a few weeks with an insulin pump for the very first time. I’ve read up a lot about this, but I thought I’d ask how people got on when they first travelled with a pump. Medtronic recommend you don’t take the pump or...

I’ve got an iPhone 16 Max Pro. I don’t bother with the finger pricks anymore because I found the sensors easily good enough. HbA1c Tests are pretty much spot on with what the Libre predicts. I’m about to go onto a close loop insulin pump so will be coming off Libres. It’s a shame because I found...

I’ve been using them for several years. Most of them last the full length of 15 days, or 14 days on the older sensors. The only problem I get occasionally is either the sticky back fails and the sensor falls off, or I hit a door frame accidentally and it’s ripped off. I’ve had about two fail due...