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<blockquote data-quote="EllsKBells" data-source="post: 1686591" data-attributes="member: 338121"><p>I'm on tresiba, and for me it's been marvellous. It has a much, much flatter profile than the older long acting insulins, and you may find that some of the readings bringing your hba1c (which is fabulous, by the way) are coming overnight. Tresiba will probably keep you flatter overnight, and it definitely lasts the full 24 hours. Also, curiously, it doesn't make me have itchy injection sites the way levemir used to, so I wonder if the modern insulins have different preservatives in them.</p><p></p><p>I have used both libre and dexcom. The libre is cheaper, but it depends what you want from it. If you need alarms, as said above, the libre isn't going to give you that, although I believe you can use something called blu-con or something like that to get it to do that. The dexcom is also more accurate, but if it's trends that you're interested in, then the libre is more than satisfactory. For me, I switched to the dexcom because I wanted the alarm if I had a hypo overnight (it happens), and also because I do a lot of lab work, and sometimes it is very hot in there, which makes it difficult to tell the difference between being a bit sweaty and having a hypo. The real cost difference comes in the transmitter which you need for the dexcom, which is ~ £200 every 120 days or so, although I believe those using xDrip+ on Android have been able to get longer out of them. </p><p></p><p>[USER=374531]@Scott-C[/USER] is the one with all the info on blucon nightrider thingy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllsKBells, post: 1686591, member: 338121"] I'm on tresiba, and for me it's been marvellous. It has a much, much flatter profile than the older long acting insulins, and you may find that some of the readings bringing your hba1c (which is fabulous, by the way) are coming overnight. Tresiba will probably keep you flatter overnight, and it definitely lasts the full 24 hours. Also, curiously, it doesn't make me have itchy injection sites the way levemir used to, so I wonder if the modern insulins have different preservatives in them. I have used both libre and dexcom. The libre is cheaper, but it depends what you want from it. If you need alarms, as said above, the libre isn't going to give you that, although I believe you can use something called blu-con or something like that to get it to do that. The dexcom is also more accurate, but if it's trends that you're interested in, then the libre is more than satisfactory. For me, I switched to the dexcom because I wanted the alarm if I had a hypo overnight (it happens), and also because I do a lot of lab work, and sometimes it is very hot in there, which makes it difficult to tell the difference between being a bit sweaty and having a hypo. The real cost difference comes in the transmitter which you need for the dexcom, which is ~ £200 every 120 days or so, although I believe those using xDrip+ on Android have been able to get longer out of them. [USER=374531]@Scott-C[/USER] is the one with all the info on blucon nightrider thingy. [/QUOTE]
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