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<blockquote data-quote="smidge" data-source="post: 712948" data-attributes="member: 29301"><p>[USER=135141]@darrenh04[/USER] - this started to happen to me with sensor number 4. After about 10 days the sensor was lifting a bit and I started to get a sort of prickly feeling - I thought the probe was pulling out so I stuck a big piece of optitape over the top of the whole sensor. The prickliness continued although the sensor was secure and stopped lifting. When I took the sensor off on day 15, it was actually very well stuck on the middle part and had only been the skirt of the sensor lifting. Anyway, when I did get it off, there was a red, sore patch towards one outer edge of the sensor - it looked like a superficial burn to the skin but I concluded that I'd had a reaction to the glue of the sensor and that some of the skin had pulled away with the sensor! Currently I'm on day 6 of sensor number 5 and all is well so far.</p><p></p><p>The only differences of sensor number 4 and the others is that I put it on a day early to acclimatise so it was on a day longer overall and that I put the optitape over it which held it down much more firmly. It was definitely the sensor adhesive which caused the irritation rather than the optitape though - it was a semi-circle around one part of the sensor edge. I washed it immediately to get the rest of the glue off and used an antiseptic wipe to clean it thoroughly. It cleared up within 2 days and there is now no trace of it. I'm hoping it was a one-off and i'm not going to form an allergy to these sensors!</p><p></p><p>Smidge</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smidge, post: 712948, member: 29301"] [USER=135141]@darrenh04[/USER] - this started to happen to me with sensor number 4. After about 10 days the sensor was lifting a bit and I started to get a sort of prickly feeling - I thought the probe was pulling out so I stuck a big piece of optitape over the top of the whole sensor. The prickliness continued although the sensor was secure and stopped lifting. When I took the sensor off on day 15, it was actually very well stuck on the middle part and had only been the skirt of the sensor lifting. Anyway, when I did get it off, there was a red, sore patch towards one outer edge of the sensor - it looked like a superficial burn to the skin but I concluded that I'd had a reaction to the glue of the sensor and that some of the skin had pulled away with the sensor! Currently I'm on day 6 of sensor number 5 and all is well so far. The only differences of sensor number 4 and the others is that I put it on a day early to acclimatise so it was on a day longer overall and that I put the optitape over it which held it down much more firmly. It was definitely the sensor adhesive which caused the irritation rather than the optitape though - it was a semi-circle around one part of the sensor edge. I washed it immediately to get the rest of the glue off and used an antiseptic wipe to clean it thoroughly. It cleared up within 2 days and there is now no trace of it. I'm hoping it was a one-off and i'm not going to form an allergy to these sensors! Smidge [/QUOTE]
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