[modin]

> The alternative is primarily: draw blood from your finger every time you want to know where your blood sugar is. (There are other 'continuous' glucose monitors, but you have to keep a needle in you all day, and my understanding is they are inaccurate enough that you still often need to check sugar by drawing blood.)

I have been using Freestyle Libre for the last two years and only picked my fingers a handful of times in that period. It’s very accurate for me, perhaps a few (10-ish) minutes delay at most compared to fingers and toes, on par with measuring in the arm. And it’s a small fibre, not a needle that’s in the arm for two weeks at a time, doesn’t hurt at all.

The development in diabetes treatment have been tremendous the last years, which might be another reason as of why Alphabet is discontinuing this project.

[westoncb]

Hmm, maybe time for me to look into CGMs again :) Any recommendation for how to go about getting the Freestyle Libre? I don't have insurance, so I'm guessing it's gonna be prohibitively expensive...

[inetsee]

I'd have to double check, but my recollection the last I looked into the Freestyle Libre monitor was that the Reader cost about $150, and the monitors (the things that attach to your arm) cost somewhere around $100 to $150 a month. Not cheap, but significantly less expensive than the older style monitors, and reports are that the Freestyle Libre is much less uncomfortable then the old style monitors.