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videoman

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
After many years of finger pricking I was give a trial of the meter which worked well and hardly any finger pricking;my hospital consultant has asked my GP if I could be prescribed as an exception because I am getting unaware of HYPOs and my GP said No were do I go now to try and get the Libre?
 
Buy it...?

I don't think the libre has alarms to notify you of a possible hypo...

a cgm you are after....
 
I know it does not have an alarm as I have tried the meter,it would allow me to see my glucose reading with out pricking as I said in my post
 
videoman said:
and my GP said No were do I go now to try and get the Libre?
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The sensors are not available on prescription yet but is being considered by the Dept of Health by all accounts, for the time-being you have to buy the sensors from Abbott.
 
videoman said:
I know it does not have an alarm as I have tried the meter,it would allow me to see my glucose reading with out pricking as I said in my post
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I understand that but I thought you were wanting to see how you could get one on account of your hypo awareness, which the Libre wont help with....

you wont get prescribed one purely on the convenience of not pricking fingers was my point...
 
If your consultant says you have a clinical need for a CGM (with high/low blood glucose warnings) then the libre isn't going to work, the dexcom is what you need though, but I suggest you look at inputdiabetes.org.uk for guidance and help.
 
I wish the promotion had been in force when I ordered my last batch of four, @Brunneria - two days before it started!

Still, the remaining three are good until Halloween, so I might just count some pennies and see if I can stretch to placing another order......

Hmmmmmmm!
 
novorapidboi26 said:
on account of your hypo awareness, which the Libre wont help with....
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Although libre doesn't have alarms, it is still incredibly useful for hypo non-awareness.

Daytime, scanning is easy enough, I tend to do it pretty frequently just because it's there, in much the same way that people chew pens. You can get a real sense of dropping levels just by regular scanning. I've caught plenty of potential hypos that way just by waving it past my arm and getting a heads up on levels dropping and taking a few grams. Lack of alarms in daytime aren't a problem, because you can see the results anyway and do something about it long before an alert would trigger (depending on where the alert is set!).

Night time alerts, sure, that's the main thing missing from libre at the moment. I would like that, and I'd vote dexcom and medtronic up on that account. But, even then, I reckon that what happens when I'm sleeping is influenced a lot by what has happened in the last six hours before going to bed, which libre will tell me about, so I've been able to kinda steer things a lot from that. I'm not getting night alerts, but because I can make better judgment calls from what I'm seeing before I go to sleep, it's not that much of an issue.

I've lost a lot of hypo awareness after thirty years in - don't get much adrenalin cold sweats or shaking thrown in as a warning, signs are much more subtle - but I can put my hand on my heart, swear an oath or whatever, and say that in the ten months I've been using libre I've not had any hypos worth worrying about. Despite lack of alarms, I've been able to pick them up in early stages.
 
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