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If you want a quick bucK I'd suggest you go sue your doctor - they are clearly acting grossly negligent, just like they would be negligent if they told you to just keep chugging as much paracetamol as you want if your headache doesn't go away. Just like it says on the leaflet, open insulin...

With respect, that's because you don't need either technology. Since CGMs are more of a convenience option wheras pumps are absolutely required in certain situations (you can do a finger price BG test at any time, but no matter how hard you try you can't get a variable basal insulin profile with...

Of course - the Libre does not directly measure blood glucose; instead, it measures interstitial fluid levels which are known to be related to current blood glucose levels and estimated blood glucose based on that. However, your conclusion that the meter displays the raw data is silly -...

A lot of people use contact lenses so I rather doubt that that will be much of a problem. The idea of Google having to go look for funding amuses me, however.

At present, there are no guidelines recommending CGMs so it is extremely unlikely that the NHS will pay for one, and unfortunately they are also very expensive. The Libre is an order of magnitude cheaper. That's irrelevant - the sensor measures something, and the resulting current is converted...

By using standard statistical techniques? Google GLM to see how it's done - understandably researchers do not include 4 years worth of statistics lectures in every paper. For example, imagine this: temperature in January 2010 was 0 deg, and 25 deg in August 2014 - is global warming real...

Sadly reality does not agree with what you want it to be, and rates of complications remain higher in diabetes with good control than the healthy population.

It will be hard to separate the effect of anaesthesia, and the surgery (which will raise BG) that necessitated the anaesthesia.

For the last time, NO. This study found that if you feed people non-meat diet (with loads of carbs) then hba1c goes down by 0.5% (e.g. If it was 7% or 53 befor, it will on average be 6.5% or 47 afterwards). The fact that this baffles you is of no consequence - for choosing which intervention is...

Source or I call BS (It's probably true for t1s on diagnosis, but t1 is too rare for this to matter)

Unlikely, since mg/dl are the units used in the US where the meter is not available.

That's actually not true

Brilliant quiz, which found that I'm a T1 on MDI and thus don't know about T2 meds.

Well, for CGMs the recommendation was back of arm or stomach, so that's probably the best place to try if you are a betting person.

Pumps are very expensive, and as such their availability is limited - if you are doing fine on MDI but wish to have to inject less then you are not going to get one because other people (e.g. Those struggling with severe hypos, or unable to control BG despite the patient's best efforts) need...

The sensor might have a built-in timer...

So now we can get quasi-round-the-clock continuous BG data for *half the price* of test strips (50 Freestyle strips cost £30 and last just a week)... yeah, no breakthrough at all. I'd suggest you go back to using 20kg glucose testers that take a litre of blood and 20min until you get the result...

Don't really have an opinion on meters - used a couple (Optium Xceed, Bayer Contour, Accu Chek Mobile, Accu Chek Expert, now Libre) and the only thing I found I disliked was test strips that come in tubs.

Carbs are listed in the full nutritional table, but are usually omitted from the "soundbite" one printed on the front to impress customers with how low sugar/low fat/low salt the product is (IMHO the "traffic light" labelling is just advertising, which should be ignored like all other claims in ads)

Generally speaking mixed insulin regimes are much less flexible - your insulin would have to be based on your basal requirement (insulin active throughout the day to keep BG level), which means you have to get up and eat fixed size breakfast every day at the same time regardless of whether your...