Hi,
@Kirbster , yes, they ship to the UK. I bought a spare recently, took a couple of weeks to arrive. They sent me a USPS tracking code so I could follow it.
Although the pricing on the site is in dollars, I just used my UK debit card details and it went through fine, converted to £96 for the transmitter and shipping. There's then a £16 VAT import charge and an £8 post office handling charge when it getd to the UK, although there's a way of reclaiming the vat for diabetics, can't recall the name of the form.
Their site is quite confusing. On the face of it, they're selling two versions of it, blucon nightrider and blucon trans-am, but in practice it's only the blucon nightrider which is being sold, so that's the one to choose on the order page.
The blucon nightrider is a one-off cost of £96. I've been using the same one for about ten months and it's doing fine. I just change the cheap CR2032 battery in it every couple of weeks. It's just a bit of electronics, not sure there's any parts to wear out, so I wouldn't be surprised if I get a few years out of it.
The blucon trans-am was the disposable one, which would only last 2 weeks, but the pricing was ridiculously high so I think people just didn't bother with it.
The difference is that the trans-am was waterproof, the nightrider isn't (because of the battery cover) so it means I need to take it off for showers.
It's put on top of the libre sensor. I just hold it in place with a cheap 7 by 8 cm Monlycke Mepore plaster which can be picked up for 17p in most chemists. Others use varieties of armbands and velcro dots.
It's quite compact and I really don't notice it at all. It's circular, fractionally wider than the sensor, and the same height as two sensors stacked on top of each other.
I started a thread about it at link below which has some info on how to set it up with the xDrip+ app, and there's a few screenshots showing the graph you get. The makers of blucon have their own inhouse app for using it with, but it's very basic, xdrip+ is way better.
There's quite a few posters using this set up now and seem to be reasonably happy with it.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...h-libre-blucon-and-xdrip.127195/#post-1575995