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Freestyle liber 2

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Hi, I’ve just joined the community.
I would like to know if the liber 2 testing is a good alternative to prick testing?
 
Derekw said:
I would like to know if the liber 2 testing is a good alternative to prick testing?
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It's quite a lot more expensive. On the other hand it offers more information (it records a reading every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day) so you get much more of an idea of what's happening even when you'd never thought of testing. Presuming it's reasonably accurate for you, anyway (some people find it's just not useful).

If you're on MDI and testing lots, then (in my opinion, anyway) it (or a CGM) ought to be the standard way of monitoring, with test strips as a backup (since sometimes you need a second opinion and not everyone gets on with Flash GM or CGM).

If you're currently testing once a day and that's basically sufficient then likely it's not worth it. I guess if you really don't like pricking your fingers. But then home testing often isn't recommended for T2 at all.

Or if you're on some medication (insulin or other) that's giving you problems with hypos; for that, it might be that just using a sensor once (for 14 days), or once in a while, would give you enough of an idea of what's happening that you can understand the patterns and fix things. (In that case the cost wouldn't be so bad. You could use test strips the rest of the time when necessary.)
 
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As a general guide to see if there are any patterns in your blood glucose levels it's brilliant, but it's not an alternative as it's not completely accurate so won't give you an accurate picture.

Also, it's recommended that you're finger testing at least for the first few days incase you have a fault sensor which isn't uncommon. The plus is that you can use the libra for sensors and finger pricking and most people use both functions to give an overall picture.

Are you a type 2?
 
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