Hey everyone,
Hope you all had a great Christmas!
Does anyone have libre 2? If so do yous pay or do yous get it free through prescription.
I am just trying to figure out if theres a cost to continue using and if its worth using i mean don’t get me wrong of course anything is better than pricking yourself every now and then.
Any info & advice greatly appreciated
I tried it via the free trial Abbott is offering. I was interested in whether it might be something I'd be prepared to pay for, and what it could tell me about by BG levels through the night.
On the plus side, it demonstrated clearly that I do have a BG fall into "real hypo" territory in the early hours. This is followed by a liver-driven BG rise which can go on (if I continue fasting) for at least eight hours. It showed other stuff as well - eg that I get a previously unsuspected substantial short-lived spike from milk (hot milk, in a latte) but nothing from cream.
On the down side, the first sensor failed after about two hours. Abbot replaced it. The second sensor worked for about a week. Its readings correlated quite closely with my fingerprick readings, and produced some useful info. Then it failed. Abbot replaced it. The third sensor worked for two weeks, but its readings were really out of sync with fingerprick tests, generally substantially much higher - eg blood reading 4.7, Libre reading 5.9. Unfortunately it wasn't a consistent difference, either.
The information the Libre can provide was and would be useful. But it doesn't work well enough consistently. I wouldn't pay £1300 a year, which is what it would cost me to use one permanently. Fingerpricking is not a problem. I thought it might be the sort of thing I would pay for in a month each year, just as a check: unfortunately my experience has put me off that idea too.