Where Are The Libre Test Strips

[tasty_morsel]

I'm using the freestyle libre 2, with the cgm sensors.

We've upgraded my phone so librelink works.

But I've got the libre 2 monitor also, because of a monumentally expensive mess up the other month.

I figured I'd keep the monitor for using with test strips, but... I can't find the correct test strips anywhere.

It's also nigh on impossible to find freestyle products in any chemists etc anywhere near where I live. Everything is through D-uk's shop.

Everything I've read says you have to use the exact strips made for the exact reader, with freestyle. I'm proper regretting going with this brand. Can anyone help?

 

[grovesy]

The test strips for the Libre Reader are the Freestyle Optium, I buy mine off Amazon.

 

[Robin]

I get my Optium strips on prescription, but my local pharmacy has to acquire them for me, and doesn’t seem to have a problem. Maybe a pharmacy near you would order them in for you privately if you ask.

 

[tasty_morsel]

Thanks both. So they can be used in the freestyle libre 2? Definitely? Not just the earlier or lite models? Sorry to ask, I've just had a real expensive pain with all of this.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

So they can be used in the freestyle libre 2? Definitely? Not just the earlier or lite models?

Yes, the strips I use are called FreeStyle Optium. They come in a box of 50 individually wrapped strips. I think they're comparatively costly (and there aren't many meters that use them) so I'm not surprised a pharmacy doesn't hold them in stock. (And like most test strips, the vast majority are issued on prescription.)

 

[grovesy]

Yes they are usable with the Libre 2 reader. The price of them on Amazon can go up and down.