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ive used to many test strips doctors are anoyyed
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Kaylz
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I really think that if you want to continue using Libre then you should give it a go with either diabox or xrip as you can calibrate with blood tests in these apps, if it still doesn't work for you then I think you should maybe just say to them that you'd prefer to give it up and solely use finger pricking, it will be costing a small fortune to continue to prescribe both methods and that isn't me judging, it's just being honest
it has got to the point why i am consider giving it up because of all the issues i'm having as said i tried using xdrip but couldnt get it work. if i could aford it i would try using dexcom but i can't aford it because the sesnors failing are giving me stress. but even without the sesnors they would try not giving the things i needed i have already explained all these hings elsse wherer
grovesy
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Do you mean the Dario?
yeah but not the optuien in the uk if they had that here it wouldn;t cost the doctors so much and i wouldn't need to worry about how many strips i was using.
i mean what the us seem to have with it they get unmillited strips with a diro persriciton i meant if they did that for the uk it cost the doctors so much money a mounth and then you could have unlimited but i know that asking for alot
something like that would work great for me
grovesy
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It is and has many quirks,it has to be used with compatible phone. The app does not automatically recognise you have plugged the meter into the phone. The strips also are more fussy on how they take the blood up into them, and I was an experience user of testing.
I said in the US here i wasn't making it up or geting confussed
sorry if this sounded like i was cirtissizing
i allready explained this. not all of them were proper tests and this work there was variity things to consider form.
it may sound excusive but when i acount for everything the failed tests strips at work the fact i had go out. had lows which i tried to prvent which didn't work so them in them slefs are 3 tests in one go. when i'm not being activeand not on the libre i do try test before meals two hours after and before bed. yes it sounds excusive but acouting for everrthing this week its not as excauisve as it sounds. i give you example of how active i was on saterday it was 8 hour shift with a 40 mintuite walk. the nly time i was seting down was my the only at my luch for not long then a 30 mintute break in the afernoon i glad i kept on eye on things consider it was 4,9 (i'll admit i probely did do a few to many i times maybe i should left it like just after lunch) but a the other times i tested i'm glad i did keep i eye on it so offen this is how manged if i did not keep on eye on it like i did i would have ended up going low) yes it does sound exacisive but this week there were many factors that it actully ends not being excusive as it sounds.
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