Carly: These devices are an essential part of diabetes management

I’d like to share my story.

Type 1 since aged 9, 39 years later the technology has come an incredibly long way.

Blood finger pricks that need to be done up to 16 times a day are a form of torture. I was terrified of them as a child, less so of the injections.

Because of this over the years I became poorly controlled as I hated testing.

Moving to a FGM at my own cost 8 years ago (which is not cheap) has given me significant control of my life and my diabetes again.

It has also helped reduce kidney and eye damage with the better control!

These devices are an essential part of diabetes management especially for T1 who have significant swings of glucose levels for multiple reasons.

And the poor children, and their parents who wake and finger-prick their children all through the night!