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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1733129" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>You are the one who introduced the word 'blame'.</p><p>The world is full of things that work for some people and don’t work for others. No need to make it about blame.</p><p></p><p>Do we blame the individual when they have a food intolance? Of course not. They have to avoid particular food but we don't blame them.</p><p></p><p>Nor do we blame people who have drug contraindications - they get offered (or choose) an alternative, if one is available.</p><p></p><p>People (like me) who have sensitivites to adhesives on some medical tapes, only find out once they have a rash, or worse. And the next time we use a different brand, until we find one that works. I am actually amazed every time I put on a Libre sensor that I don't errupt in weeping red sores. I spent my first £150 on the Libre expecting the whole thing to be a total failure for exactly this reason. I weighed the risks and decided to try it. I would not have blamed Freestyle if I got a rash, just as I do not blame other medical glue manufactures if their stuff works better on other people than on me.</p><p></p><p>At the moment, the Libre is one of a small group of gadgets that measure blood glucose in a certain way.</p><p>As time goes on, other brands will join the party and the customer will have more choice, which will probably include a range of adhesives, and a range methods of reading blood glucose - and for each of those, there will be people for whom they work well, and people for whom they work badly.</p><p></p><p>And as for cost - my wardrobe and my house all contain a few items that I bought thinking they would be fantastic, but which have fallen short of my expectations. Three things are certain though</p><p>- I return them if faulty</p><p>- I don't buy any more of something that doesn't work for me</p><p>- and I don't think that because it doesn't work for me, the manufacturers are automatically dishonest, incompetant and con merchants (we get accusations like this about the Libre quite often. One poster actually started a thread about it a year ago. Apparently she had gone on every review site and forum she could find, accusing Freestyle of dishonesty, corruption and so on. Only on the internet, eh?).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1733129, member: 41816"] You are the one who introduced the word 'blame'. The world is full of things that work for some people and don’t work for others. No need to make it about blame. Do we blame the individual when they have a food intolance? Of course not. They have to avoid particular food but we don't blame them. Nor do we blame people who have drug contraindications - they get offered (or choose) an alternative, if one is available. People (like me) who have sensitivites to adhesives on some medical tapes, only find out once they have a rash, or worse. And the next time we use a different brand, until we find one that works. I am actually amazed every time I put on a Libre sensor that I don't errupt in weeping red sores. I spent my first £150 on the Libre expecting the whole thing to be a total failure for exactly this reason. I weighed the risks and decided to try it. I would not have blamed Freestyle if I got a rash, just as I do not blame other medical glue manufactures if their stuff works better on other people than on me. At the moment, the Libre is one of a small group of gadgets that measure blood glucose in a certain way. As time goes on, other brands will join the party and the customer will have more choice, which will probably include a range of adhesives, and a range methods of reading blood glucose - and for each of those, there will be people for whom they work well, and people for whom they work badly. And as for cost - my wardrobe and my house all contain a few items that I bought thinking they would be fantastic, but which have fallen short of my expectations. Three things are certain though - I return them if faulty - I don't buy any more of something that doesn't work for me - and I don't think that because it doesn't work for me, the manufacturers are automatically dishonest, incompetant and con merchants (we get accusations like this about the Libre quite often. One poster actually started a thread about it a year ago. Apparently she had gone on every review site and forum she could find, accusing Freestyle of dishonesty, corruption and so on. Only on the internet, eh?). [/QUOTE]
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