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Hi John, the criteria can be found on the nhs 'NICE' site if you are in the UK. I would be most surprised if they gave it to you straight away as there seems to be a lot of hoops to jump through. The tendency seems to be for them to 'see how you go' for a year or three, and then take it from there! Why have they decided to put you on insulin if you don't mind me asking?

 

Hi John,

I don't know about the CGM requirements in your area, but just wanted to check whether insulin really is the only option for you. What medication are you currently on, have you changed your diet to low carb at any point, and are you still producing your own insulin? T2 mainly is a problem of making so much insulin you become insensitive to it, so putting more in then is kind of counter productive... You'd need ever increasing amounts. If, however, your pancreas is just giving up the ghost after 10 years, insulin would indeed be required. Any idea whether you've been checked for that? Do you check your own bloods (just a finger prick, not a CGM), and can you let us know what your numbers are? or your HbA1c? Should you not have tried a change in diet towards low carb yet, you might want to have a read here: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/the-nutritional-thingy.2330/

Good luck eh!
Jo

 

Provision of the Libre depends greatly on the instructions and guidance issued by your local Care Commissioning Group to your GP.
I was told that my blood glucose was too well controlled to get Libre on prescripton. I pointed out it was well controlled 'because' I was self funding the Libre but all I got was a 'sorry - can't do anything unless the guidance changes'.
Just ask and see what happens.