....... Maybe some people just need to stop comparing and relax a little.
How can anyone relax and stop comparing when scans are telling me 'LO' and finger pricks are telling me 6.x which are the readings I have been getting all through the night - when the scan works at all that is!
....... After a couple of days, readings become more acurate. Drink fluids to keep your interstitial hydrated.
I'm like a walking swimming pool already.
....... If I test with a strip, I test using the libre. Readings are pretty accurate and similar on both.
I was initially running strip tests using both the Libre and a Contour Next usb but I have come to trust the Libre as a blood glucose monitor so now when I compare scan and BG readings I only use the Libre.
The problem is, Abbott in their wisdom decided not to suppy BG strips for the Libre, I am lucky in that I had some left over from when I used an Insulinx but I only have 7 left. Not everyone will be able to afford to buy their own strips and not everyone will have a friendly doctor who will prescribe them 500 optium strips.
....... If you use it for a while.... You will have access to the 'bigger' picture and to the AGP software. To me, that is more important in my long term care. Im getting an accurate profile and am able to fine tune my levels better.
The software is good, it has a simple and intuitive interface and with the number of non invasive readings you can take you should be able to build up a very accurate picture of what your blood sugars are doing - IF THE READINGS ARE ANYWHERE NEAR ACCURATE - this is what I get:
For those who don't know readings with an * next to them are blood sugar readings not scans.
I urge everyone to relax into it a bit more and to give it time and then to use the AGP software.
Oh how I wish I could.
I have had one sensor die after one day - kudos to Abbott I received a replacement this morning - and now the second sensor looks to be on it's way out as I am getting error reading data messages most of the time and when it does give a reading it is always 'LO'.
The meters event log (Settings > System Status > Event Log) is choc full of errors:
'Er3 365' is when the first sensor died. 'Er 373' is when it can't read the sensor data (try again in 10 minutes). There is another one to add to the top of that list, 'Er0 2012' - no idea what it means but the scan I did directly before the error was recorder was 'LO'.
I am extremely happy that many people are getting good results with this system but I am equally frustrated that I am not one of them and resent people saying that those of us who are not getting accurtate readings are expecting too much and to 'relax' and give it time