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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sleepster" data-source="post: 2422437" data-attributes="member: 482479">Hello [USER=546230]@Wilsapp[/USER] I got my pump in 2012 and it was fairly easy, but that's because I had been having seizures from hypos in the night that weren't waking me up. It was on my first visit to a new hospital the DSN asked if I would like to try a pump and they added me to the priority list. It took a while, as these things do, but I didn't really have to do much except show I could carb count. I was at that hospital until 2020 and libres/cgms were never mentioned to me. I only knew about libres etc from here.I changed hospitals in 2020 and on my first visit the consultant asked if I would like to give the libre a go. He told me the criteria was to be testing 8 times a day, which I had been but I am absolutely awful at inputting my BG readings into my pump so I think on my pump data upload there was only a few days where I had actually put them all in (because I was going to the hospital <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) but thankfully he was still willing to apply for the funding for me. I started on the libre a couple of months later.Basically I've been very lucky (aside from the seizures) and have had these things offered to me instead of having to fight for them.</blockquote>

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