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<blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 1058134" data-attributes="member: 30007"><p>If you go and look at the various sources of information, you'll see a couple of things relating to your post:</p><p></p><p>1. When your blood glucose level is moving fast, you generally see significant differences between Libre and bloods. A 6.3 and vertical down arrow when you have a blood test of 3.8 would be a case in point where it knows it is moving fast but hasn't caught up yet. Likewise, when it goes high.</p><p></p><p>2. At high readings (and 12 and 13 are high) then it tends to over-read. This is again systemic and virtually all users report this behaviour. </p><p></p><p>3. The most useful aspect of it is not the point in time readings. It is the trend information. Knowing how fast your blood glucose level rises in response to food and when your insulin kicks in. Whether you stay flat when fasted overnight or you rise and when that occurs. At what point dawn phenomenon kicks in. All of this is hugely useful data <em>regardless of the actual value you are looking at</em>. </p><p></p><p>I do think that Abbott's tagline of "no more fingerpricking" us misleading, but if you treat it as a Continuous Glucose recorder rather than a fingerprick replacer, it's an incredibly useful tool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tim2000s, post: 1058134, member: 30007"] If you go and look at the various sources of information, you'll see a couple of things relating to your post: 1. When your blood glucose level is moving fast, you generally see significant differences between Libre and bloods. A 6.3 and vertical down arrow when you have a blood test of 3.8 would be a case in point where it knows it is moving fast but hasn't caught up yet. Likewise, when it goes high. 2. At high readings (and 12 and 13 are high) then it tends to over-read. This is again systemic and virtually all users report this behaviour. 3. The most useful aspect of it is not the point in time readings. It is the trend information. Knowing how fast your blood glucose level rises in response to food and when your insulin kicks in. Whether you stay flat when fasted overnight or you rise and when that occurs. At what point dawn phenomenon kicks in. All of this is hugely useful data [I]regardless of the actual value you are looking at[/I]. I do think that Abbott's tagline of "no more fingerpricking" us misleading, but if you treat it as a Continuous Glucose recorder rather than a fingerprick replacer, it's an incredibly useful tool. [/QUOTE]
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