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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 44803" data-attributes="member: 11712">CGM are about and have advanced abit and some of the pump manufcturers have incorparated them into there pumps...You can get a stand a lones, but both a ver expensive and off the top of my head the last time I looked you were looking at around £500-£700 for the monitor and something like £80 for a pack of sensors, which you can insert and use for about 72 hours if you don't have a problem and need to change..You would still have to calibrate each sensor as you use, and if the monitor alarms to say you are going high or low, you have to double check with a finger prick test..Some clinic will loan a meter if deemed that it would be useful, and there are many clinics that haven't got any!There is stil some problems with them, and most who have them only use to give a idea to what is happen through the 24 hour period rather than completly taking the reading as being totally accurate...  To find patterns..It is very difficult to get funding from PCT's for these as they are not covered by any NICE guildelines</blockquote>

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