Good luck - William - you will still need to check your blood - probably 3 times a day as it is every 12 hours and for my own security and peace of mind I tend to test morning, evening and then night.
Smidge - you don't see any big needles and honestly hurts less than a finger prick test - no worse than a regular skinny needle injection and it is quite quick once you get used to it.
The cost is the big thing. I know what you mean about nights - sometimes wake up high sometimes low in the middle. My dose at night has not been a really static thing for a little while now - it is gradually increasing at the moment, but I know it will also drop back down. The CGM has been invaluable in helping to avoid some of those lows as it gives me a full picture of what is going on - some mornings I will have that wake up dawn phenomenon….but others I won't (someone suggested that they are looking at whether the dawn phenomenon is caused by hypos the previous day - I haven't been able to work out conclusively at all about this, whether it is when they happen - i.e early evening, or how low you drop to a hypo or how long it lasts…and then be able to tell whether that is all coincidence or not
- sorry sidetracked). So CGM shows me whether I have a dawn phenomenon and then I know that is causing me the high and not the amount of insulin I had the night before if I finger sticked and saw 6 and then 12 for a couple of days I would increase my night time dose - so it is saving me from adjusting my night insulin to combat a dawn phenomenon which I would have done in the past as I wasn't aware that's what it was…and then I would have gone horribly hypo in the night! So now if I look over and see that rising arrow in the morning then I get up and inject - my dawn phenomenon doesn't start at 2/3am it starts once my eyes start to open - so on those days no lounging around…it is up and insulin! So in all that the information is fantastic…and the reason I want it all the time is because my diabetes is not the same all the time - there are different things and issues that the information I can see can help me with - it gives me a more informed judgement on what I should do and how to resolve highs or lows. I so hope that the Drs and people at NICE can see that - I know that it might be too much information for some, and it takes a little while to get to work out how to react to the information….but for me it has been fantastic, but I am motivated, know how to use tech stuff and the peace of mind for me is invaluable.