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Feeling a Little Overwhelmed

MrsA2 said:
It's still a lot to me at £100 a month.
Finger prick strips for me at one a day are £5 for a month
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Same. I hope one day they come down in price. I do at least get my strips on prescription.
 
MrsA2 said:
There are 2 types.
Cheapest is the finger prick type that uses test strips. The monitor itself can be cheap but watch you chose one were the strips aren't too expensive. At first , while you learn, you will get though a lot of strips, perhaps 8-10 a day
@Rachox has some info on what and where to buy.

The second sort are the continuous monitors where a sensor takes your bg through a fine needle being stuck to your arm. Results feed to your phone. Each sensor lasts 10-14 days depending on make and costs about £50 a week.
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Correction: I use the Libre2 continuous monitoring system and it cost £24 per week not £50.

I was diagnosed with Type 2 in May last year and advised to control it with exercise and diet. The medics will not recommend finger pricking or continuous monitoring because then the nhs would have to pay for it.

After reading stuff on here I got a finger pricking monitor in July then tried Libre 2 from September onwards.

It is worth £24 per week to me because it shows what individual foods to to my blood sugar. For example when eating my daily porridge for breakfast, finger pricking 2 hours later showed my blood sugar was very reasonable. However, Libre2 showed my blood sugar was spiking 30 minutes after eating porridge. So I stopped eating porridge.

My HbA1c has dropped from 61 to 41 and my dodgy liver tests have improved tremendously. There is one called ALT which should be below 50. It is an indicator of non-alchoholic fatty liver disease. Mine has dropped from 81 last May to 28 last week.

The continuous is a big help.
 
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