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Post by dreamboatcruise on Feb 22, 2018 18:13:53 GMT -5
1 month update: Lucky me, my insurance covers this meter including a mere $10 copay for 90 day supply of sensors. The sensors are easy to apply and do not sting at all. Removal is like taking off an Elastoplast bandage. A little more tenacious than a normal band-aid. I started using the meter a month ago due to my A1c stalling at about 8, yet my finger stick readings looked good. Either I was lying to myself or I was missing some key data. The meter helped me find out. Turns out: 1. The breakfast cereal I was eating was amping my BG, and coming back down by the time I took my mid-morning reading. It was totally hidden from me since I wasn't testing continuously. 2. I eat too much at supper, and was indeed fooling myself. 3. I needed more basal to keep me in control at night. I would say that I'm 2/3 there now on the way to having tight control again. I'll grab some screen shots and post them soon. What a great tool. That's great on the co-pay, and sounds like it has already paid for itself to your insurance multiple times over. Is that private insurance or the National system? Do you think you'll want to keep using it in the long run, or do you think you'll learn what you need to know and then not want to have it attached? Hopefully private insurance here in US will start covering these for any PWD that want them... hopefully even on a temporary basis for those with "pre-diabetes". Perhaps I'm dreaming on the latter.
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