Thank you so much. That link is great.
Hello. I wasn’t aware that you could just use an App I have an iPhone so it will be suitable. Would you advise getting a device anyway as back up though? I have decided to apply for a free trial while I’m fighting for the prescription to be provided so does that mean the App or the Device?
You don’t need a reader if you have a compatible smartphone, just scan with the phone
The free trial involves one sensor (with applicator) and you will need to download the LibreLink app onto your phone in order to scan it.
Thank you so much
Presuming you use the official LibreLink app, to allow scanning a sensor with both you must initialise with the reader. But then only the reader can offer alarms. Most likely you'll be OK with just your phone. And using your phone makes it easy to upload the data to LibreView which can store more data and allows sharing of it with your healthcare team (should that be useful).
Thank you. I do want / need an alarm. I live on my own so now feel I need something to alert me especially during the night. Also I want my son to have access to the levels and warning. I don’t have a pen, still use needles for my insulins.
Do you mean a syringe? Any reason you don’t use insulin pens?
Then it's worth having a look at https://librelinkup.com/ which is supposed to support this. (I've no experience in how it works, so possibly it'll turn out not to be suitable for you.)
Still vials and syringes? I must admit I was happy to switch over to pens as soon as I knew they were available, initially disposable pens but now reusable ones (with cartridges).
No, they seem to have stopped selling them. I suspect they're still being manufactured, so I suspect DSNs might still get some to give away and I suspect if someone phones them with a good reason (for example that their phone doesn't seem to work right with the sensor) they'll get sent one.
My insulin types are not suitable. I use a long acting twice a day at 6am and 6 pm then take fast acting for bfast and evening meal as and when needed. Long acting is Porcine.
Oh ok. Thank you. I’ve been trying to get through on chat for 2 hours and given up! Wanted to know how to buy one. I’ve requested a call back for during the week.
@Bruce Stephens - do you have the contact details for the Professor mentioned in this thread please?
Is it this one? Website says it’s suitable for insulin pens. What fast acting do you use?
It really sounds like your diabetes management has been left behind in the last century and needs a thorough overhaul/update to benefit from modern improvements. I know some people grow to really trust these regimes which have been keeping them alive for many years and be resistant to change and I can understand that, but I think most of us feel that there is a huge benefit in the modern technology available and as you get older I think it is important to make your diabetes management as easy as possible. I know my dexterity on a morning is not the best as my hands are stiff first thing and I am sure dialing up a dose on a pen and pressing a button is a lot easier than drawing up insulin in a syringe and injecting it. I am going to guess the needles are also probably finer on the pens and the benefit of being able to double check the pen to see if I really did inject that last dose is something that I greatly value and use a lot.
Hi. Yes it is. I use Actrapid but last time I asked about they said it wasn’t compatible with a pen. I have at least 3 injections per day as like the flexibility of changing when I eat, at weekends especially. I have long acting fixed times then take fast acting before evening meal and bfast if get up late. Don’t always mix but sometimes I do. Not sure pens are that flexible as maybe pre mixed? I am old style I know but had great difficulty years ago when forced to change from porcine based fast acting to actrapid. Don’t want to rock the boat.
