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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 2005023" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Hi, [USER=468630]@emily deacon[/USER] , maybe worth asking your doc to prescribe you Freestyle Libre.</p><p></p><p>There's some new prescription rules coming in in April:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/flash-glucose-monitoring-national-arrangements-for-funding-of-relevant-diabetes-patients/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/flash-glucose-monitoring-national-arrangements-for-funding-of-relevant-diabetes-patients/</a></p><p></p><p>On page 3 of the pdf, item 1 says you'll get it if you can show you test more tgan 8 times a day for 3 months.</p><p></p><p>But item 4 also mentions a "psychosocial" need for it, so if you have a history of anxiety over hypos it might be worth asking for it on that basis.</p><p></p><p>Libre monitors your levels continuously so it is easy to pick up on possible drops just by scanning the reader past your arm every so often.</p><p></p><p>There's a version 2 coming out over the next year which will alert for hypos.</p><p></p><p>In the meantime, there's a small transmitter, one off cost of about £160 called MiaoMiao.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://miaomiao.cool" target="_blank">https://miaomiao.cool</a></p><p></p><p> Put it on top of the libre sensor, it'll read it every 5 mins and send to an android app xDrip+ or the ios Spike. Those apps can be set to ring the phone at set levels which you choose, so you could, fot example, set it to 4.7 or whatever so you get plenty of advance warning of dropping levels and treat it with a biscuit or two long before it gets anywhere near hypo.</p><p></p><p>It can also be set up so that your partner can follow your levels on his phone provided you're both on wi-fi. It'll even send a text message if you don't switch off the alarm.</p><p></p><p>Put it this way, I've been using libre for almost three years now and bad hypos are a thing of the past for me, purely because I can see when I'm starting to drop and tail it off before it gets nasty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 2005023, member: 374531"] Hi, [USER=468630]@emily deacon[/USER] , maybe worth asking your doc to prescribe you Freestyle Libre. There's some new prescription rules coming in in April: [URL]https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/flash-glucose-monitoring-national-arrangements-for-funding-of-relevant-diabetes-patients/[/URL] On page 3 of the pdf, item 1 says you'll get it if you can show you test more tgan 8 times a day for 3 months. But item 4 also mentions a "psychosocial" need for it, so if you have a history of anxiety over hypos it might be worth asking for it on that basis. Libre monitors your levels continuously so it is easy to pick up on possible drops just by scanning the reader past your arm every so often. There's a version 2 coming out over the next year which will alert for hypos. In the meantime, there's a small transmitter, one off cost of about £160 called MiaoMiao. [URL]https://miaomiao.cool[/URL] Put it on top of the libre sensor, it'll read it every 5 mins and send to an android app xDrip+ or the ios Spike. Those apps can be set to ring the phone at set levels which you choose, so you could, fot example, set it to 4.7 or whatever so you get plenty of advance warning of dropping levels and treat it with a biscuit or two long before it gets anywhere near hypo. It can also be set up so that your partner can follow your levels on his phone provided you're both on wi-fi. It'll even send a text message if you don't switch off the alarm. Put it this way, I've been using libre for almost three years now and bad hypos are a thing of the past for me, purely because I can see when I'm starting to drop and tail it off before it gets nasty. [/QUOTE]
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