[Diabetes-Talk] Dexcom
Hope Hein
hwmhein at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 13:33:26 UTC 2020
Hi all,
I was just prescribed Dexcom by my physician and find that it is easier to use with my Iphone then was Libre. It is also easier to put on the sensor.
Hope Hein
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> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:10:37 -0800
> From: "gary-melconian" <gmelconian619 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] re freestyle libre 2
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> Hello I was just prescribed the freestyle libre 2. When I contactted Abbot
> erlier , they said that their app is waiting FDA approval, and no idea
> when that will be out.so I then contacted my endo to have him change the
> prescription back to libre 1 from libre 2 as there is no app for us blind
> users to use with our Apple I OS or android devices. If any one else is
> prescribed the libre2, have their doctor change to libre 1 so that they
> don't end up in the mess ai had to go through earlier today. Don't get
> why they put out a product without any thought to an app.in modern times
> all cgm use apps and not the readers.i know hat with the dexcom they make
> you get the reader but her is an app and the app does nto change hat much
> with update version of their app withehte operating system of he smart
> phones dotn get why abbot could not have built all this into the freestyle
> libre app and then gotten all the approvals hathey needed instead of going
> through he messy process thathey arare going through giving aa new product
> with a reader but no app and your stuck out of luck .
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> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:48:37 -0500
> From: "Jeanette Kutash" <kutash-jm at comcast.net>
> To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] re freestyle libre 2
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> Gary, that is why I haven't asked for the change. Sorry that happened to
> you.
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> Jeanette
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> Cc: gary-melconian
> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] re freestyle libre 2
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> Hello I was just prescribed the freestyle libre 2. When I contactted Abbot
> erlier , they said that their app is waiting FDA approval, and no idea
> when that will be out.so I then contacted my endo to have him change the
> prescription back to libre 1 from libre 2 as there is no app for us blind
> users to use with our Apple I OS or android devices. If any one else is
> prescribed the libre2, have their doctor change to libre 1 so that they
> don't end up in the mess ai had to go through earlier today. Don't get
> why they put out a product without any thought to an app.in modern times
> all cgm use apps and not the readers.i know hat with the dexcom they make
> you get the reader but her is an app and the app does nto change hat much
> with update version of their app withehte operating system of he smart
> phones dotn get why abbot could not have built all this into the freestyle
> libre app and then gotten all the approvals hathey needed instead of going
> through he messy process thathey arare going through giving aa new product
> with a reader but no app and your stuck out of luck .
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> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:48:01 -0800
> From: "Gary-melconian" <gmelconian619 at gmail.com>
> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] re freestyle libre 2
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> I knew that this would happen I told him that what he said oh yeah the
> Apple work with libre too and I said no and I knew that so I went home I
> contacted Abbott and they'll ask them and they said no the app is still
> enough the approval with libretto side to contact them get the prescription
> change from libre to you to libre one and now I'm going to be happy for
> next year because I have I told him to set it up for a year so that way
> I'll have a universal worth of freestyle libre 1 to go with so lesson
> learned always ask and always do a lot of research a lot a lot of doctors
> don't have idea if they think everything works sometimes it works sometimes
> it doesn't work in this case we already know that it was not going to work
> so we'll just have to wait and see when libretti will be available but the
> funny thing is Leroy and libre 3 both are going to be using the same app so
> whatever habit works on in the clinical trials for laboratory it's going to
> be the same for libre too
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>> On November 19, 2020 3:49:43 PM Jeanette Kutash via Diabetes-Talk
>> <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Gary, that is why I haven't asked for the change. Sorry that happened to
>> you.
>>
>> Jeanette
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Diabetes-Talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>> gary-melconian via Diabetes-Talk
>> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 5:11 PM
>> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
>> Cc: gary-melconian
>> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] re freestyle libre 2
>>
>> Hello I was just prescribed the freestyle libre 2. When I contactted Abbot
>> erlier , they said that their app is waiting FDA approval, and no idea
>> when that will be out.so I then contacted my endo to have him change the
>> prescription back to libre 1 from libre 2 as there is no app for us blind
>> users to use with our Apple I OS or android devices. If any one else is
>> prescribed the libre2, have their doctor change to libre 1 so that they
>> don't end up in the mess ai had to go through earlier today. Don't get
>> why they put out a product without any thought to an app.in modern times
>> all cgm use apps and not the readers.i know hat with the dexcom they make
>> you get the reader but her is an app and the app does nto change hat much
>> with update version of their app withehte operating system of he smart
>> phones dotn get why abbot could not have built all this into the freestyle
>> libre app and then gotten all the approvals hathey needed instead of going
>> through he messy process thathey arare going through giving aa new product
>> with a reader but no app and your stuck out of luck .
>>
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