That's interesting.
As much as I would like to buy it, I find it a bit expensive for me to afford at this point but I definitely plan to buy this as some point of time as my figures what I see on meter (now I use 2 as my dear DN gave me one which was shocking as I am t2 on no meds now) do not really stack up against the a1c i get so I am definitely missing my peaks somewhere.
For this reason I am now doing 30 mins and 1 hour readings more than 2 hour readings as I am normally low 5's after two hours. I know some food peak late but my diet is pretty much same, salad with meat or just meat or eggs or cheese or nuts. When I varied my diet when coming off nd I did do a lot of tests ranging from 30 minutes to 3 hours. But all those tests again did not stack right with my a1c.
But what you say is right, I think CGM helps as it tells you what is really spiking you.
Could you please help me with one thing, I am so sure I saw somewhere you posted a link to a1c machine you bought to test at home, are you still using it and do you find that accurate, and could you please share the link again, I tried a lot to look around on the forum and I think if I am not wrong and mistaken I saw a post that was from you. I am sorry if it was not from you.
The Libre, not only highlights foods that spike you, but tracks you whatever you're doing. For example, this morning, I have had a couple of stressful hours (my life is generally pretty stress-free, so I do appreciate I am extremely fortunate), and the Libre tracked the impact of the stress. I clearly see my liver dumps, and can, without reference to my food records, identify when I have eaten a lot of fat. When I have a lot of fat, I pretty much flat line, until towards bedtime, then it drops away.
Anyway, onto your question. Yes, I have some home testing HbA1c kits. They are just a modified finger prick test, using a different "reader", and from the supplier I use, BHR, offer packs of 10 or 20 tests, here:
http://www.bhr.co.uk/professional/product/a1c-now/
These are the cheapest I found when I was looking, and this batch have an expiry date of the end of September 2016, so you do need to be mindful of getting through the tests, if buying in bulk (and not sharing with anyone else). There are other suppliers, and even some offering kits with fewer tests, but those become more expensive, per test, as the reader/meter expires at the same date as the test kit (strip equivalent), so there's nothing to be gained by considering retaining the reader/meter. The reader/meter and kit/strips must be from the same manufacturer batch. This particular supplier doesn't carry massive stocks of these things, so that they retain decent expiry dates, and when I made my last order (I've only ordered twice from them), they had to order them from the US, and stated they'd be with them within 48 hours. Quashing my cynicism, they absolutely were!
Finally on that, the kit/tests need to be refrigerated, and come packed with a freezer pack in the box, so if you are going to have a batch, please ensure someone can receive the box, and store it appropriately, or have it sent to your workplace, if you can refrigerate it. Last time, I just went and picked them up, as the supplier is quite close to me, and quite coincidentally, I was going to be passing anyway.
Sorry if that's too much information, but I realised some of these things along the way.