hi,
I have joined today in the hope of obtaining some advice for getting a freestyle libre. I live a crazy busy lifestyle: exercising for at least 2 hours a day as my mother in law is a fitness instructor, have just finished my degree and now training to be a primary school teacher starting in a school in September full time.
As a result I’m even more desperate for the libre than ever but having spoken to my nurse at east surrey hospital she said the criteria was having been hospitalised twice in the last year for hypos or ketones, testing more than eight times a day, and having an hba1c about 15% above mine... I don’t meet any of these criteria and feel like I’m being penalised for having tried really hard with my control. I’m in no way a ‘good diabetic’ but have never completely lost control (apart from when I was put on the wrong anti depressants which made me hypo and seizure).
I didn’t know if this criteria was universal or I could argue it at all if the same rules don’t apply elsewhere. I’m in no position to pay for the sensors myself and didn’t know if anyone had ideas on what I could do?
Thanks, Abi
