Back in February I became at least 10% more cyborg with the addition of a spanky, new Libre to my arm. After two weeks of using it, I wrote up my thoughts divided into the good stuff and the bad stuff. It’s now been ten months (give or take a week or so either way)… Read More »
Shoot Up’s second favourite Scottish wonky-pancreas-supporters, the Edinburgh Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes have launched a handy new “quiz” for Libre users. I’ve put “quiz” in inverted commas because, of course, there’s no such thing as correct answer where diabetes is concerned. But that said, the ECED have put together a rather neat way of… Read More »
I wrote about our second favourite flash glucose monitoring device – Abbott’s Libre – and covered off all the undoubtedly good things about the device. But all is not milk and honey in the land of the Libre and so I’ve jotted down a few of my annoyances for your delectation. Some of these are… Read More »
I posted my initial thoughts about the Libre a few weeks ago here; so how has it been after two weeks using everyone’s second-favourite flash glucose monitoring system? In summary, when it’s good it’s very, very good. When it’s bad it’s just annoying. First of all, let’s cover off the good. The snaking worm of… Read More »
I’m just typing up my second article about my experiences with the Libre. As always, I got slightly distracted by linguistics. Before I heard it spoken aloud by my consultant, I thought the Libre was pronounced “Leeb-ruh” but apparently, it’s pronounced the “Leeb-ray”. Expert polyglots will correct me, but if it has an upward inflection,… Read More »
Last night I found myself sitting in a lecture theatre in the studenty-bit of the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. Surrounded by about 175 other type ones (who knew Edinburgh had so many pancreatically-challenged denizens?) we were about to be introduced to Abbott’s flash glucose testing do-hicky – the Libre. Apparently demand for the new device had… Read More »