The realistic TIR depends entirely on what your range is. I use a range of 4 to 9.5. The logic for this is that anything under 4 is a hypo and I have seen Libre graphs of people without diabetes who spike to 9 so I have given myself a little leeway on that.
I read somewhere that you should be aiming for around 85% in range with no more than 5% below 4.
However, this all depends on things like
- personality. Are you likely to get anxious!
- Libre accuracy. Please do not rely 200% on Libre. The recommendation is to always check highs and lows before treating (unless it is an obvious hypo)
- lifestyle. For example, if you are driving a lot, you may want to aim slightly higher for your lower range
- age. I believe the target is relaxed as we get older
- what other health conditions you have. Remember to treat all your body not just your diabetes
As you are new to Libre, please read around the forum, especially regarding the limitations. Many people initially get very frustrated with it because they expect it to be accurate all the time or don't scan often enough (the sensor only stores 8 hours of data so you must scan at least once every 8 hours if you don't want to lose data).
Helo,
I'm using libre 2 with XDRIP, unfortunately in order to obtain the freestyle libre from state I'm forced to use the libre link app with it connected to the Endo consultation.
I completely agree with the above, the endo consultation depends 200% on the records of librelink and instead of take in consideration the other symptoms, such us the anxiety and stress of the work professional, working lifestyle, working travel, etc I personally when I'm stress out and with anxiety as I'm a quality inspector, the insulin does little effect, but then when relax the glucose level fall's like free fall.
By othe hand I can say that libre 2 lies!
A1. The sensor stores a reading every 15 mins. This is what the TIR is calculated from. It is a fixed number of readings (assuming no missed scans etc) ie 7 days x 24 hours x 4 readings per hour.
A2. You will get a lot of personal stories here I'm sure. I aim to keep my TIR above 90%, and do generally. A the moment I'm showing 97% for 7 days, 94% for 13, 90% for 30, 90% for 90.
You will discover what affects your bloods causing spikes & drops, the food, the insulin etc and begin to manage it. I won't pretend it's easy.
It is a 24 x 7 obsession.
HTH
The libre 2 do not makes readings at each 15 min, but does lots of measures and then performs a median value, that on this case is a taxation value on time, and this is very important to know as if the insulin is given in a zone where you pick blood, you can rapidly drop without notice it, as the last values do not take importance in relation to the rest of the values, as it a taxation in time and therefore it will only show a drop when the mean start to decrease.
This can also be easily verified between xDRIP and librelink, on xdrip you can see in advance the raising or the drop on glucose,.
On libre 1, the measures could be seen as raw data with the APP LIAP, it was a wonderful APP, but as libre link 2 started to communicate with the phone in an encripted channel, the app LIAP was unable to read it.
What I really do not understand is "It is a 24 x 7 obsession." this type of obsession is taken by the endo consultant and they can't see that this diseases is already a prison for the person and it seems that is better to push the persons to the cliff instead of explain all the type of insulin or equipment placed on the market in order to help the monitoring of the disease.
Another completely different thing is the analogy of the ketone bodies!
As I can observe no one controls the glucose by the ketone bodies! The ketone bodies appears when the glucose is higher or when the cell need insulin and do not have it, even if glucose is present. (Please correct me if I'm wrong) On this basis, I can give my personally experience, several times I'm at around 100mg/l and I'm feeling dizziness, I need to be in an higher value in order to feel well.
I would like to have the experience from others, as would like to know if this feeling is also replicate on others.
My best regards
