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Freestyle Libre (different To Last Post)

Sonnyb2

Sonnyb2

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I'm going on the freestyle libre trial soon and was just wondering what happens at hospital if u get skins for free at hospital and how the appointment is??
Many thanks sonny bluck
 
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It doesn't have skins. They'll normally give you a free reader and one free sensor.

I think the nurse should spend some time with you explaining how it works and not to freak out at all the data and try to correct every high. She should also set up the meter if you use half units and what your target range is.
 
My daughter recently started using the libre. At her appointment the libre rep discussed how the sensor worked, how to set up the reader and showed us how to apply the sensor correctly. She was really nice and answered any questions that we had. After the sensor was applied and scanned for the first time we had a 60 minute wait before we could actually start using the sensor. We didn't have to stay at the hospital for the 60 mins if we didn't want to but we chose to use that time asking every question that we could think of.

If you need to know anything else then please feel free to ask
 
They will show u how to do it, it's up to you if you let them do it for you or you do it yourself
 
Once our trial was over we got to keep the reader and it was up to us if we bought the sensors for it. Ellie prefers the sensors to finger pricking all the time so we continued with it. So far so good
 
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