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To clear the air: I don't think Abbott can be blamed because I put the sensor in my left pectoral, not on my arm as you're meant to.
However, it seems like ISF glucose is, at least on this sensor and this site, reading unreliably between .7 and 1.8 mM-equiv below fingerstick blood glucose on an Accu-Chek Aviva. Additionally, it won't let me set a hypo threshold that actually corresponds to my experience, instead displaying low at 3.9, which on top of the erratic low read, means that Libre may show me low (3.6, say) when I may be 4.0, 4.8 or even in the 5s and 6s, or it may "correctly" show a low when I'm not low enough to worry (3.7, for example).
Six words that keep coming to mind are "This would kill an actual diabetic." I've heard (through YouTube) of exactly this problem coming from actual diabetics (including one French man, Hidgi Chuan, who had two sensors and two meters show two massively different numbers: 240++ on one arm and 183++ in another arm - the ++ means a straight up arrow) who I must presume actually followed the instructions, which is why I keep saying that to myself.
One hypothesis I have other than the obvious "wrong site, problem exists between keyboard and chair" is that even though I'm not scorbutic, my low vitamin C intake (carnivore diet) may be making the sensor read erroneously low (since hypervitaminosis C can cause you to read a false high). This shouldn't be happening, but it seems to be. When I ate strawberries for a bit, Libre and fingerstick lined up perfectly at 4.6 and then diverged a bit again. It didn't work the second time I tried.
However, it seems like ISF glucose is, at least on this sensor and this site, reading unreliably between .7 and 1.8 mM-equiv below fingerstick blood glucose on an Accu-Chek Aviva. Additionally, it won't let me set a hypo threshold that actually corresponds to my experience, instead displaying low at 3.9, which on top of the erratic low read, means that Libre may show me low (3.6, say) when I may be 4.0, 4.8 or even in the 5s and 6s, or it may "correctly" show a low when I'm not low enough to worry (3.7, for example).
Six words that keep coming to mind are "This would kill an actual diabetic." I've heard (through YouTube) of exactly this problem coming from actual diabetics (including one French man, Hidgi Chuan, who had two sensors and two meters show two massively different numbers: 240++ on one arm and 183++ in another arm - the ++ means a straight up arrow) who I must presume actually followed the instructions, which is why I keep saying that to myself.
One hypothesis I have other than the obvious "wrong site, problem exists between keyboard and chair" is that even though I'm not scorbutic, my low vitamin C intake (carnivore diet) may be making the sensor read erroneously low (since hypervitaminosis C can cause you to read a false high). This shouldn't be happening, but it seems to be. When I ate strawberries for a bit, Libre and fingerstick lined up perfectly at 4.6 and then diverged a bit again. It didn't work the second time I tried.