And in your health center you can't ask for a glucometer and what are you giving you strips of that?
I say that even if you have a Abbot sensor, the strips and the glucometer do not have the same mark.
I used the sensor, but my glucometer nothing to see with that brand
I am from Barcelona, in the SS the endocrine has told me that if I do not have better glucosilad results, the sensors will finish me.
Can they do it?
I fear that they apply what they know as "adherence to treatment."If you see that you are not able to have good control, they think that what to spend sensors if in the end you are equally evil with them as without them.
I think like @ruthbia: if one is not able, for whatever reasons, to bring it to good control, it needs more external help from health professionals.Even those who have good control have bad days.The important thing is to learn why it was a bad day and act next time.But for that they need data (and the sensor gives many and good) and a good interpreter of that data (educator@ diabetological).
Example: there is a lot of difference between the white baguette white bread and an integral bar "of firewood".Eating the same amount of HC, the first will give you a tremendous peak and the second does not.But if one does not know this, or do not explain it, or do not know what happens when you eat fat cheese and an amount of HC (almost assured peak after several hours and probable down in the short term), because you can hardly get along wellcontrolled the thing.
This does not mean that some are more listings than other, but that they have more knowledge, that they have received training and that they are able to self-control.
I never went down about 6.1 or 6.2 in glycosilada until I started using the sensors.I surprised myself how much I learned when I saw the reaction.Or wait 15-20 minutes when I have a day of sitting in the office and I can't do the usual exercise.
Therefore my recommendation: insists that you have that "adhesion to treatment" and try to explain why what happens happens.Use insulin/hydrates ratios, write down what type of HC shots and what other things accompany food ... give information to the endocrine and educator so they can better guide, and above all, ask them why: you need to be self-sufficient, even knowing that there are good days and others less good.
On the other hand, the norm says that the sensors are for those people with the treatment of multiple punctures of insulin per day, or at risk of serious hypos, and that they need 6 or more capillary measurements per day for good control.It seems that it is your case, so insist on your commitment to good control and do not let the sensors take away.