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Khang

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Hi All;
i do not see any group here using Dexcom G5 but Libre. Is Libre better than Dexcom G5 or any other reasons because i read on some forums that Libre doesn;t alarm when low/high and that the reason in UK has a few using Dexcom? I am using Dexcom and feel good. I can help to guide you guy to run Dexcom on Spike or change the battery.
 
I think cost is the big thing. Libre came along in the UK and significantly undercut the dexcom. This is important for both people funding it themselves and for the NHS funding it.

Libre also got approval in the UK far earlier than in the US. I know they also have supply problems, so it's entirely possible they didn't work too hard in the US because the market in Europe was big enough for their manufacturing capacity.

No, libre doesn't have alarms built in, and this is a problem. The next version is supposed to. More recently addons have come along to give alarms when low/high - miaomiao and blucon both work well. I like my miaomiao a lot.
 
some guys as well as i do the extension of the G5 sensor to 21 days or 28 days instead of 7 days as recommend and i can replace the Dexcom G5 batteries of its transmitter to make it run 5 months instead of 112 days. This shall make the cost go down much more for us as a diabetic while we still have full function of the system like alarm, graph, percentile/AGP...but i see that MARD on Libre is better than Dexcom and also, if you run Libre you shouldn't fingerprick and that are the important. I also hate fingerprick huhuhu.
 
I agree with @evilclive

I self fund for me I can get Libre for around £100 per month, Dexcom looks like it would be £160.

The Dexcom subscription does allow alerts but you can get alerts for Libre with something like the maiomaio which is a 1 off cost rather than increasing the monthly cost.

I hear the Libre V2 will have alerts out of the box, but I have only heard rumours. It worries me that if they start adding alerts to the Libre it will get more expensive and or get larger or no longer be waterproof etc.
 
Timostags said:
I hear the Libre V2 will have alerts out of the box, but I have only heard rumours. It worries me that if they start adding alerts to the Libre it will get more expensive and or get larger or no longer be waterproof etc.
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They've already said that it will cost the same as Libre 1 and uses the same housing. There's no reason it wouldn't be waterproof as that would damage their own market.
 
Khang said:
if you run Libre you shouldn't fingerprick and that are the important. I also hate fingerprick huhuhu.
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You still need to fingerprick in the UK because the driving authority doesn't recognise cgm results. Also, I would advise any libre user to do occasional checks with a glucose meter because the libre can become very inaccurate (either because of a bad sensor or because of user allergies). Even libre admit you shouldn't rely on it for very high or low readings (ie do a blood test before treating a hypo?)
 
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