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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 2098586" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Yes, it's flash glucose monitoring, it gets stuck on your arm, belly, chest, wherever, then you put the reader or an nfc phone up next to it and it uses nfc, near field communication to read it. So it's not pushing the readings continuously to the phone or reader as nfc only works over a few centimetres, but as soon as it came out the #wearenotwaiting folks came up with a few home made gizmos which went on top to bluetooth readings to a phone, and then the commercial transmitters, first blucon, then miaomiao, came out for those of us who aren't good at soldering and coding.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.freestylelibre.co.uk/libre/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyefTiaLG4wIVhLHtCh0vagsXEAAYASAAEgIBEPD_BwE" target="_blank">https://www.freestylelibre.co.uk/libre/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyefTiaLG4wIVhLHtCh0vagsXEAAYASAAEgIBEPD_BwE</a></p><p></p><p>So, yeah, you'd have the freestyle libre on yr arm/belly, the miaomiao is attached to it, reads it every 5 mins, bluetooths the reading to xDrip+ on your phone. It's offically only authorised for use on the arm, the flexible sensor filament is only 4mm long, so lack of fat on the arms shouldn't phase it too much, but plenty of folks have worn it in a wide variety of places, chest, belly, thigh without problems.</p><p></p><p>I'm lucky enough to live in NHS Lothian in Scotland, which has a really liberal libre prescription policy, any T1 who wants it gets it, so I get it free and the one off £160 cost of the miaomiao, and free open source xDrip+ works well for me.</p><p></p><p>If you're in England, there was a really messy postcode lottery on libre prescription - some ccgs were liberal with it, most weren't, so the RMOC stepped in, set some national rules, one of which was if you are testing more than 8 times a day for good clinical reasons, they must prescribe, no ifs, no buts. But some areas are still being reluctant, didn't like being told what to do. </p><p></p><p>In which case, Partha Kar, the NHS England T1 clinical lead, says he wants to know about this so he can have a "quiet word" with them:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/parthaskar?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank">https://mobile.twitter.com/parthaskar?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 2098586, member: 374531"] Yes, it's flash glucose monitoring, it gets stuck on your arm, belly, chest, wherever, then you put the reader or an nfc phone up next to it and it uses nfc, near field communication to read it. So it's not pushing the readings continuously to the phone or reader as nfc only works over a few centimetres, but as soon as it came out the #wearenotwaiting folks came up with a few home made gizmos which went on top to bluetooth readings to a phone, and then the commercial transmitters, first blucon, then miaomiao, came out for those of us who aren't good at soldering and coding. [URL]https://www.freestylelibre.co.uk/libre/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyefTiaLG4wIVhLHtCh0vagsXEAAYASAAEgIBEPD_BwE[/URL] So, yeah, you'd have the freestyle libre on yr arm/belly, the miaomiao is attached to it, reads it every 5 mins, bluetooths the reading to xDrip+ on your phone. It's offically only authorised for use on the arm, the flexible sensor filament is only 4mm long, so lack of fat on the arms shouldn't phase it too much, but plenty of folks have worn it in a wide variety of places, chest, belly, thigh without problems. I'm lucky enough to live in NHS Lothian in Scotland, which has a really liberal libre prescription policy, any T1 who wants it gets it, so I get it free and the one off £160 cost of the miaomiao, and free open source xDrip+ works well for me. If you're in England, there was a really messy postcode lottery on libre prescription - some ccgs were liberal with it, most weren't, so the RMOC stepped in, set some national rules, one of which was if you are testing more than 8 times a day for good clinical reasons, they must prescribe, no ifs, no buts. But some areas are still being reluctant, didn't like being told what to do. In which case, Partha Kar, the NHS England T1 clinical lead, says he wants to know about this so he can have a "quiet word" with them: [URL]https://mobile.twitter.com/parthaskar?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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