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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 1425677" data-attributes="member: 30007">Just to weigh on this topic, the biggest turn off for most in the UK is set-up costs. For Dexcom G5, you have to outlay £200 for a transmitter and change it every 3-5 months depending on how you use it. You then need to get two weeks out of a Dexcom sensor for it to be equivalent in cost to a Libre sensor. Since you can use Libre on an Android phone, and it has a "Share"-like capability (LibreLinkUp) you get almost as much data, just not the alarms, and outlay less. Essentially then, as long as you guarantee two weeks per Dexcom sensor, it only works out as being $1000 annually more expensive.   The other thing to bear in mind is that for a fair number of people, alarms on the Dexcom gear are an absolute nuisance. Many people hate them. A lot of people turn them off. What you get with the libre is continuous data, but at fingerpricking frequency, and that for many is more what they want, rather than the alarming. So the two systems offer very different things, and for many, the directional and trend data is the main reason for using these things. In that context, why bother with the more expensive solution?</blockquote>

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