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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 2120463" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Depends on the area you're in. I'm in Scotland, the NHS here is devolved so it has it's own rules compared to England, the general rule here is that each script has 4 sensors on it to give us a couple of months supply and save us bothering the GPs each fortnight.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Nah, it's fine. Stuff like this always looks bigger than it is in photos, I notice it about as much as I do the llbre, which is not much at all.</p><p></p><p> When you order the transmitter, also order about 30 or so of the adhesive patches. Each patch has 4 double-sided sticky bits on it, you peel one of those off, stick it onto the MiaoMiao, and then stick it onto the sensor/skin. To be fair, some folks have had allergic reactions to the sticky, but, hey ho, there's never any guarantees with this sort of Wild West stuff. I've been fine with it for about 8 months now.</p><p></p><p>The double sided adhesives have been fine for me, but I don't spend a lot of time doing gym or swimming or anything. Others have tagged Tegaderm, vetwrap and other wraps on top for a bit of added protection.</p><p></p><p>Another link to jamorhams's home page, which shows some screenshots of xDrip+:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://jamorham.github.io/" target="_blank">https://jamorham.github.io/</a></p><p></p><p>The backstory is that when the dexcom cgm first came out, T1s liked it, but felt it could have some more useful features, but dexcom weren't interested in adding them as it would be too much hassle getting them past the FDA, so the open source community, in the shape of the Nightscout group, reverse engineered it and came up with dexdrip, and that has since evolved into xDrip+, with jamorham and several others doing the main work on it.</p><p></p><p>It isn't authorised by any medical authority on the planet, your docs will probably never have heard of it, but it has been widely tried and tested by thousands of experienced T1s, and we trust it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 2120463, member: 374531"] Depends on the area you're in. I'm in Scotland, the NHS here is devolved so it has it's own rules compared to England, the general rule here is that each script has 4 sensors on it to give us a couple of months supply and save us bothering the GPs each fortnight. Nah, it's fine. Stuff like this always looks bigger than it is in photos, I notice it about as much as I do the llbre, which is not much at all. When you order the transmitter, also order about 30 or so of the adhesive patches. Each patch has 4 double-sided sticky bits on it, you peel one of those off, stick it onto the MiaoMiao, and then stick it onto the sensor/skin. To be fair, some folks have had allergic reactions to the sticky, but, hey ho, there's never any guarantees with this sort of Wild West stuff. I've been fine with it for about 8 months now. The double sided adhesives have been fine for me, but I don't spend a lot of time doing gym or swimming or anything. Others have tagged Tegaderm, vetwrap and other wraps on top for a bit of added protection. Another link to jamorhams's home page, which shows some screenshots of xDrip+: [URL]https://jamorham.github.io/[/URL] The backstory is that when the dexcom cgm first came out, T1s liked it, but felt it could have some more useful features, but dexcom weren't interested in adding them as it would be too much hassle getting them past the FDA, so the open source community, in the shape of the Nightscout group, reverse engineered it and came up with dexdrip, and that has since evolved into xDrip+, with jamorham and several others doing the main work on it. It isn't authorised by any medical authority on the planet, your docs will probably never have heard of it, but it has been widely tried and tested by thousands of experienced T1s, and we trust it. [/QUOTE]
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