I have been reading your posts about the current blood glucose meters (and blood ketone testing meter Optium Xceed) with great interest. I use pretty much all of them in my work as a Diabetes Nurse Consultant, as a person with diabetes myself and as a mother to our youngest daughter with Type 1...
Just to point out to everyone that currently the market for insulin pumps & CGMs in the UK is changing so rapidly that reports like the one quoted as well as nICE Technology Appraisals get out-of-date very quickly. The Purchasing Guide is already badly out of date: it does not take into account...
If anyone wants a list with pictures of the UK blood glucose meters with the special features of each one of them listed with bullet points, I am happy to forward it to you. It is up to date as now. :D
I just registered for this website - and I am so delighted to find other people who actively think about their diabetes self care and figure out new ways of getting in control of their insulin use.
My youngest daughter has had Type 1 Diabetes since the age of 5 and is now 25 years old. She has...