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T2DM Free style libre

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To explain, on my repeat prescription I have got insulin prescribed. My GP telephoned yesterday and agreed with my results, not having used insulin for 6 months, she removed my insulin off the list. I now no longer use any tablets, therefore I am a T2DMCBD. I have HbA1c test every 6 months. However my plan is to continue my strict diet regime and in 5 months time I will buy a FSL 3 which should be approved for use in the UK by then. I will use the 2 sensors for that month and if I am on target I will not have to have the blood test. Sorry for the confusion.
 
That still doesn't really explain how you can now "afford" it if you couldn't before
 
I'm still totally confused.... Are you saying that you have been paying for prescriptions even though you were diabetic and therefore presumably exempt or does that not apply in Wales? Also if you weren't using the insulin then why were you paying for prescriptions for it or any other medication that you didn't need... if you did have to pay for prescriptions?

As regards Libre 3.... don't hold your breath that it will be available in 5 months. It took more than 2 years for Libre 2 to become available in the UK despite being in use in Germany well before that.
 
So you pay for your HbA1c? It sounds like you are saying you will pay £110 every six months to avoid having to take one?
 
No, prescriptions in Wales are free. Prescriptions for FSL for T2DM are not yet approved. However if by using this system you can strictly control this scourge then it might be cost effective. The cost of treating the complications of diabetes is horrendous.
 
Why do you pay for your HbA1c? That seems even stranger than paying for prescriptions!
 
And isn't £110 for an HbA1c rather steep?
 
No I think I've made sense of it, I think they mean they will only buy 2 sensors for the 6 month period

Also yes the complications cost is expensive but good control doesn't stop them from developing, I'm proof of that!
 
tedlambert said:
Well why not?
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Firstly it is more expensive. A home HbA1c test kit (the sort where you send blood drops to a lab for a proper analysis) cost as little at £29, a saving of £81 every six months. And that is notwithstanding that the N.H.S. will do it for free.

But mainly because it is less reliable. A finger prick test is an unreliable gauge because it only tells you blood levels as a specific point in time, so cannot be assumed to reflect any other period. The same is true of going by four weeks of continuous monitoring out of a six month period.

And part of that goes to a testing bias. People behave differently when they are being observed, it is a well document psychological phenomenon. And even putting side subconscious behavioural changes, you are not going to just completely ignore whatever the monitor says then review it at the end. Every time you make a decision based on your current glucose levels you take it further away from being an accurate representation of your normal levels, the way you would have acted in the previous five months without that information.

Spot testing or continuous testing are useful for helping micromanage your levels, whether to protect against hypos, determine insulin requirements, or to see how your body responds to particular substances and activities. But unless you continuously test all the time it cannot tell you your overall health. Just because the monitored month was fine, it does not mean the previous ones were.

Pretty much nothing on this thread has made any sense, and questions have only been met with tangents, so you do whatever you want. But regardless of you whatever you reasons are, nothing is gained by avoiding HbA1c tests.
 
I don’t honestly know why the truth is not being spoken on this thread. The chance of a T2 on no treatment other than diet getting the Libre on prescription is less than zero. End of story, end of discussion.

A T2 on diet only treatment is at no risk of unexpected hypos, or high BGs. Nothing more than test strips are needed, and many T2s can’t even get them on prescription. Mind you, the cost of two sensors would buy a year’s supply of Codefree strips.

And the concept of not needing HbA1c tests is risible. That’s one criterion for T1s getting the Libre prescribed in the first place.

As @Becka says, nothing on this thread has made any sense, and that starts with the first post. Let’s at least try to introduce some rational thinking.
 
tedlambert said:
To explain, on my repeat prescription I have got insulin prescribed. My GP telephoned yesterday and agreed with my results, not having used insulin for 6 months, she removed my insulin off the list. I now no longer use any tablets, therefore I am a T2DMCBD. I have HbA1c test every 6 months. However my plan is to continue my strict diet regime and in 5 months time I will buy a FSL 3 which should be approved for use in the UK by then. I will use the 2 sensors for that month and if I am on target I will not have to have the blood test. Sorry for the confusion.
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What is T2DMBD?
 
grovesy said:
What is T2DMBD?
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Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Controlled By Diet would be my guess..... Think you lost a C in translation grovesy
 
I would like to express my appreciation of you all especially Becks for enhancing my edification. Thank you.
 
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