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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1798915" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Hi, mancview, can I just say The Alarming Sensors would be an ideal name for a post-punk band! Any thoughts on this [USER=101136]@Jaylee[/USER] as our resident muso!?!</p><p></p><p>Alarming sensors are little plastic devices stuck on your arm/stomach. They've got a small filament inside your skin measuring glucose. There's a transmitter pinging the result every 5 mins to your phone, so you can see a graph showing where your levels are going and it'll ring if you go too high or low.</p><p></p><p>There's a few companies doing them:</p><p></p><p>Dexcom: <a href="https://www.dexcom.com/en-GB" target="_blank">https://www.dexcom.com/en-GB</a></p><p></p><p>Medtronic: <a href="http://professional.medtronicdiabetes.com/personal-cgm" target="_blank">http://professional.medtronicdiabetes.com/personal-cgm</a></p><p></p><p>Medtrum: <a href="http://www.medtrum.com/indexMobile.html#Page3" target="_blank">http://www.medtrum.com/indexMobile.html#Page3</a></p><p></p><p>The problem is the cost and persuading your docs to fund them. Dexcom sensors officially last for a week and cost 50 quid. Unofficially, everyone knows that they can be restarted and many people get 2, 3 weeks or more out of them. But from the NHS point of view, they last a week so they're looking at it as 200 per month.</p><p></p><p>If your dsn is onside for you being funded for dexcom, go for that.</p><p></p><p>If you get libre, as [USER=47983]@therower[/USER] says, it won't give you alerts like dexcom but it's still pretty useful for tracking levels and catching day time lows before they happen. It's also very easy to turn it into "proper" cgm with alerts by putting a transmitter on top from <a href="http://www.ambrosiasys.com" target="_blank">www.ambrosiasys.com</a> or <a href="https://www.miaomiao.cool" target="_blank">https://www.miaomiao.cool</a> . I've been using the blucon transmitter from ambrosia for a year now, very happy with it, has saved me from a few bad night hypos. Haven't tried miaomiao yet, it's the new kid on the block.</p><p></p><p>Your dsn seems to be onside. Getting libre funded is probably going to be easier than dexcom because of the pricing (libre 35 for 2 weeks, dexcom 50 for 1 week) so if you end up with libre, fork out about 100 quid for a blucon transmitter and it'll make it the same as dexcom.</p><p></p><p>When you're talking to your dsn about this stuff, the chances are they will have never heard about transmitters for libre. Both blucon and miaomiao are CE marked for sale in Europe, but I still had a dietician ask me whether it was 'legal'!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1798915, member: 374531"] Hi, mancview, can I just say The Alarming Sensors would be an ideal name for a post-punk band! Any thoughts on this [USER=101136]@Jaylee[/USER] as our resident muso!?! Alarming sensors are little plastic devices stuck on your arm/stomach. They've got a small filament inside your skin measuring glucose. There's a transmitter pinging the result every 5 mins to your phone, so you can see a graph showing where your levels are going and it'll ring if you go too high or low. There's a few companies doing them: Dexcom: [URL]https://www.dexcom.com/en-GB[/URL] Medtronic: [URL]http://professional.medtronicdiabetes.com/personal-cgm[/URL] Medtrum: [URL]http://www.medtrum.com/indexMobile.html#Page3[/URL] The problem is the cost and persuading your docs to fund them. Dexcom sensors officially last for a week and cost 50 quid. Unofficially, everyone knows that they can be restarted and many people get 2, 3 weeks or more out of them. But from the NHS point of view, they last a week so they're looking at it as 200 per month. If your dsn is onside for you being funded for dexcom, go for that. If you get libre, as [USER=47983]@therower[/USER] says, it won't give you alerts like dexcom but it's still pretty useful for tracking levels and catching day time lows before they happen. It's also very easy to turn it into "proper" cgm with alerts by putting a transmitter on top from [URL="http://www.ambrosiasys.com"]www.ambrosiasys.com[/URL] or [URL]https://www.miaomiao.cool[/URL] . I've been using the blucon transmitter from ambrosia for a year now, very happy with it, has saved me from a few bad night hypos. Haven't tried miaomiao yet, it's the new kid on the block. Your dsn seems to be onside. Getting libre funded is probably going to be easier than dexcom because of the pricing (libre 35 for 2 weeks, dexcom 50 for 1 week) so if you end up with libre, fork out about 100 quid for a blucon transmitter and it'll make it the same as dexcom. When you're talking to your dsn about this stuff, the chances are they will have never heard about transmitters for libre. Both blucon and miaomiao are CE marked for sale in Europe, but I still had a dietician ask me whether it was 'legal'! [/QUOTE]
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