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Type 1 Freestyle libre

@Dalejordan_ Welcome to the forum.
If you visit the Diabetes Management/ Blood Glucose Monitoring sub forum you'll find a lot of discussion and debate about the Freestyle Libre.
Good luck.
 
I've found the Freestyle Libre invaluable, but I doubt I'll ever get it on prescription as my local CCG is skint.
 
I found the Libre very inaccurate as a replacement for finger pricks: a single sensor over a two week period was sometimes within 0.5mmol/l compared to finger pricks and sometimes 2.5mmol/l difference. It was closer within a normal range of 4.0to 7.0 but further out when high or low.
However, the direction and timing was close enough to understand which foods and activities caused rises and lows.
So, if you are planning to use it instead of pricking your finger you are not using it to its best. If you use it to time and quantify your insulin doses, it is very good.
 
Rokaab said:
I've found the Freestyle Libre invaluable, but I doubt I'll ever get it on prescription as my local CCG is skint.
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Well, as I'm sure you know, avoiding the odd hypo is one thing, but avoiding other diabetic complications in the long term would save money. Preventing just a handful of cases of kidney/eye/neural/... problems would save enough to pay for the Libre for everybody. Plus, the price will most likely drop in a couple of years. We need to be thinking (and campaigning) on the long-term issues.
 
I found it to be very accurate, after the first couple of days. It seemed to "settle in", end ended up only 0.1-0.2 mmol/l different from my trusty AccuChek Mobile.
 
I do not know why NICE says its on perscription,yet in my surgury I am fighting a battle with the local care providers whoo ever they are. I have tried the device and it helps a lot as I some times do not reconize lows?
 
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