Freestyle Libre use by date

[Ginny03]

This is no good if you ordered in February, but if this happens to anyone else, I'd have thought that you should be protected under the regulations which replaced the distance selling regulations so long as you act within 2 weeks. I haven't read the exemptions in detail, but can't immediately see any reason why these products shouldn't be covered.
http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/consumer-contracts-regulations

 

[Robin]

I agree that would be right in your cereals example, but I got the impression from Bloden's original post on this thread that she couldn't use all 10 before the expiry date in June. She didn't say anything about having sensor free periods.

Ah, sorry for the confusion, I just realised I read about Bloden not wanting to use them continuously in another thread.
https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/board...re-using-diabetes-monitors.65679/#post-697197

 

[Ljc]

Just received some sensors , luckily I didn't order 10 as I was aware of the problems. Their expiry date is still end of June.

 

[grovesy]

That still is not very long.

 

[Ljc]

I received a couple yesterday. Expiry date is 31/01/18, hopefully they have now cleared the backlog.

 

[Northerner]

I've just received 4 sensors - expiry date 31/10/2017. That's 8 weeks, cheers Abbott! 🙄 I know they should work beyond the date OK (thanks @mikeyB 🙂) but that's not the point, there doesn't seem to be any logic to who gets what and when (looking at @Ljc's post above At the very least each sensor ought to have 3-6 months to expiry.

 

[Robin]

I've just received 4 sensors - expiry date 31/10/2017. That's 8 weeks, cheers Abbott! 🙄 I know they should work beyond the date OK (thanks @mikeyB 🙂) but that's not the point, there doesn't seem to be any logic to who gets what and when (looking at @Ljc's post above At the very least each sensor ought to have 3-6 months to expiry.

That's really bad. I took Lin's post as a sign that they were all now 31st Jan at least, and ordered four a couple of weeks ago...and they were all 31st Jan, as was the replacement sensor they sent me around the same time.

 

[Greyhound Gal]

I've just checked the 4 I ordered last week, and same as you Northie - all expire 31/10. I wanted them to last until towards end Nov.😡

 

[Ljc]

I've just checked the 4 I ordered last week, and same as you Northie - all expire 31/10. I wanted them to last until towards end Nov.😡

Same here, luckily I only ordered 3 my previous orders exp date was
31/01/18. They must have a serious stock control problem.

 

[Greyhound Gal]

[QUOTE=" They must have a serious stick control problem.[/QUOTE]

I'll give them a 'stick control problem'

Fab avatar by the way🙂

 

[Ljc]

[QUOTE=" They must have a serious stick control problem.

I'll give them a 'stick control problem'

Fab avatar by the way🙂[/QUOTE]
Oops lol. my iPad strikes again

 

[mikeyB]

As I've said elsewhere, the sensors work just fine even a month out of date. The reader doesn't know the expiry date. I've checked out of date sensors with finger prick tests. I suspect they will work even after a month.

 

[Northerner]

As I've said elsewhere, the sensors work just fine even a month out of date. The reader doesn't know the expiry date. I've checked out of date sensors with finger prick tests. I suspect they will work even after a month.

If you had a problem with an 'expired' sensor though, where would you stand in terms of a replacement/complaint I might call them and give them stick about their stock, stat! 🙂

 

[Ljc]

Just receved 3 sensors with an exp date of 31/11/17 when In September I posted this below

I received a couple yesterday. Expiry date is 31/01/18, hopefully they have now cleared the backlog.

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I just hope that when the NHS does start to prescribe them, it will solve the problem.

 

[Northerner]

Just receved 3 sensors with an exp date of 31/11/17 when In September I posted this below


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I just hope that when the NHS does start to prescribe them, it will solve the problem.

And yet the replacement sensor I got the other day expires July 2018! Totally random system!

 

[grovesy]

I don't think this good enough for a multi national.

 

[Ljc]

If I’d have run our stock room like they seem to run there’s, I’d have been for the high jump 😱

 

[RFS]

I put in an order for enough to see me through the last two tournaments of the year. What I didn't bargain on was three sensors failing/falling off on the trot, and now my one to carry me through on my flight back to Blighty keeps chucking up sensor errors every other scan. The last two have reacted with my skin leaving some fetching blistery weals which at least guaranteed no-one wanting to sit next to me on a crowded MRT in Singapore!

From what I gather in a FB I belong to for Libre users - a few of us have had issues with skin irritation if the expiry dates are close, and dodgy sensors with the same dates. I realise and appreciate this is a run of bad luck, and people only complain when things are going wrong, blah blah. But I am self-employed and making a fair few cuts elsewhere to afford these... so if you are of the happy-clappy unicorn and rainbow brigade that hate to see anything negative, I would avert your sensitive little peepers now!

 

[grovesy]

I have read reports of skin irritation with these many time.
There have been many threads since the release of the Libre and not all good.

 

[Northerner]

I put in an order for enough to see me through the last two tournaments of the year. What I didn't bargain on was three sensors failing/falling off on the trot, and now my one to carry me through on my flight back to Blighty keeps chucking up sensor errors every other scan. The last two have reacted with my skin leaving some fetching blistery weals which at least guaranteed no-one wanting to sit next to me on a crowded MRT in Singapore!

From what I gather in a FB I belong to for Libre users - a few of us have had issues with skin irritation if the expiry dates are close, and dodgy sensors with the same dates. I realise and appreciate this is a run of bad luck, and people only complain when things are going wrong, blah blah. But I am self-employed and making a fair few cuts elsewhere to afford these... so if you are of the happy-clappy unicorn and rainbow brigade that hate to see anything negative, I would avert your sensitive little peepers now!

I have noticed that I still have red marks from the short-dated sensors I had on nearly two months ago now Didn't happen with my earlier sensors (have used them since April)