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Freestyle Libre petition

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Why cant people use this post to talk about it. MORE publicity the better. More votes 😱
 
Yes I saw a list of where it was being trialled - possibly on the press release for Abbott but can't recall now - I know Birmingham was one but can't recall the other ones.

Trials are due to finish in July as I said.
 
trophywench said:
Yes I saw a list of where it was being trialled - possibly on the press release for Abbott but can't recall now - I know Birmingham was one but can't recall the other ones.

Trials are due to finish in July as I said.
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<raises hand> I'm going to be involved in trialling it, hopefully soon! 🙂
 
Reading another forum, the reports on the libre are damming. People are asking for their money back. Meters and sensors are faulty. Abbot have also stopped taking orders as well. :(
 
Pumper_Sue said:
Reading another forum, the reports on the libre are damming. People are asking for their money back. Meters and sensors are faulty. Abbot have also stopped taking orders as well. :(
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Interesting - the responses here all appear to have been positive! :confused:
 
I've had a VERY bad time with BGs recently and the last week with the Freestyle Libre has probably saved me from being very ill - no exaggeration. For example when I woke up this morning at 6.45 I was c. 10 with both Freestyle and blood testing equipment. I normally wouldn't have done another BG test but as I had the Freestyle I scanned myself 20 minutes later to see that I'd jumped to c.13 which I confirmed with a blood test and corrected. I then scanned myself 20 minutes later 15.5😱 ie from 10 to 15.5 in 40 minutes. I would not have done finger prick tests in this time. If I hadn't scanned myself with the Freestyle I wouldn't have known that it was shooting up so fast. Overall it isn't 100% accurate but neither is blood testing. I now wouldn't swap my Freestyle for anything else as long as I can do finger pricks if there appears to be problems or when I bolus. It has also picked up problems with my overnight basal which I was not aware of, highlighted a 2.8 that I wasn't aware of and is very close/the same as finger prick tests the majority of the time. I did have a cannula that wouldn't insert and they replaced it with no problem at all.
 
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I too have had very good results with the Libre. I compared the results against my Accu-Chek Combo meter and they were consistently within the error tolerances of both machines.

I guess it is possible that some of the posters on the other forum are expecting too much. The permitted error of patient-use BG meters is plus or minus 20% of the 'true' value. So if, at any particular moment, your true BG amount was 10, a meter reading anywhere in the range of 8-12 would be acceptable (at least to the manufacturer). So you could have the situation that the Libre was reading 8 and the conventional finger-stick meter was reading 12 and that would be OK.

In practice, I found that the two machines were much closer than that - which is consistent with the current expectation that BG machines generally work with an error range of 10-15%. I haven't done a statistical analysis of the results I recorded but a rough review suggested that they were generally within less than 10% of each other. Interestingly, I found that the Libre results tended to be consistently slightly lower than those from the Combo meter, but I think the Combo has a bit of a reputation for reading a bit on the high side.

However, I will still use the finger-stick meter to calculate meal and correction boluses. (Not least because the Combo meter does it for me.) What the Libre is very useful for is for checking basals and rapid changes. And, of course you can check your BG through your clothes in an instant.
 
I have only heard good as well. I whish I could trial one ! I bet all test strip firms are panicking & causing a stir 😱 There will a lot of them short on sales ?
 
There is 40 people viewing this post. Can you please vote ! Tomorrow I am taking time out to do something for Diabetics. Have a look at Events. I am up early to travel there before 8.30 (knowing me will be there 8). It is mainly for T2 diabetics & what is not bad for them. It is education for all. I am deff not getting paid for this but is for the community 🙂 Pls sign if you can 😉😎
 
Am running out of things to promote this post. I know everyone wants to talk about diff things but we need more votes pls 😉
 
4706 now 😎 A lot of strip makers will be worried. If I was the manager of one of those firms I would be making my own Libra 😉
 
If you know anybody at work this week, can you get them to sign pls. 🙂
 
Thank You Bessiemay. If we all help each other these things work. 😉😎
 
Who do you think will be the next manufacturer to make this type of thing ?
 
As I stated earlier if you read this http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...d-diabetes-day you will find the meter is being trialled ready for NICE approval.
So basically the petition is a waste of time as things are already moving slowly but surely in that direction. 🙄
 
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