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FREESTYLE LIBRE ON SALE!!!!

When I hypo'd though my scans didn't even drop on a lag. Just ploughed through at 4
 
I only joined the forum a few days ago and came across this post.

Wow! This looks great and I really want one but looks like I'll have to wait a bit until it's back in stock.

Although I've tried to read through as many of the posts as possible there are quite a few, so I'd be interested to know from those of you who have had the product for a month or so about the pros and cons of of using it. Do you feel like it's money well spent?
 
Emmotha said:
When I hypo'd though my scans didn't even drop on a lag. Just ploughed through at 4
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I've had this experience a number of times. When my BG is low, Libre rarely reads accurately - it doesn't seem to be accurate below about 3.1.It seems to register anything in the 2s as 4s. The directional arrow never works for me. I've reported it a few tomes but apparently I'm the only one reporting the issue.

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ChickP said:
I only joined the forum a few days ago and came across this post.

Wow! This looks great and I really want one but looks like I'll have to wait a bit until it's back in stock.

Although I've tried to read through as many of the posts as possible there are quite a few, so I'd be interested to know from those of you who have had the product for a month or so about the pros and cons of of using it. Do you feel like it's money well spent?
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Freestyle Libre Review | emmotha
https://emmotha.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/freestyle-libre-review/
 
Second what tim2000s says in his review. Overall a very positive experience and I am "hooked". It makes diabetes management easier and better and I think it's a genius little machine:)
 
daniT1D said:
Are you waiting to buy one Noblehead? I am happy to help you if I can.


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Yes I am, I've done as Rob suggested and will be alerted when they next become available, I'm changing to a pump in the next few weeks so the Freestyle Libre will be invaluable.
 
Well I finally seem to have got my hands on a crazy sensor. Six days left and it has managed to display all the issues others have seen within 24 hours. The reading have been out by 20%, it seems to think I spent half the night with a glucose level below 2.2 in spite of being at 5.6 on waking and stable at that for an hour, and most "amusing" is the "hypo" I apparently had between one and three am that recovered to exactly the same level as it was at before with no intervention from me, and was registered with only 6u of levemir on board as active insulin. It then proceeded to drop to low and stay there, which I'm afraid I just don't believe given the waking level.

Looks to me like the levemir drop over night was below the 1.6mmol/l required for basal, so I think I actually got that right last night.

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I'm in the unusual position of having an additional sensor and reader because the reader test strip slot is broken, so I am going to run the two sensors alongside each other for the next few days and see what the results are.
 
just been looking at my arrows. They do seem to show rapid downwards movement.
I have a straight down arrow at 127 (11.35) followed by an oblique down arrow 77 (12.02) and then flat 72 (12:20) so that seemed OK
On another it was 84 with a straight down arrow and I should have taken notice, 40 min later it was flat but 58mmol/l
(The last one though was a morning when it had been reading 36mg/dl low (2 mmol/l) . The 58mmol/l was in the same ball park as my meter so it could actually have fallen far more .
straight downwards arrow 105 (20.00) oblique 84 (20:17) flat 76 (20:30) it stayed around that for the next hour.
 
On the left the old sensor. On the right the new sensor. In the middle a 20 minutes ago blood test.

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tim2000s said:
On the left the old sensor. On the right the new sensor. In the middle a 20 minutes ago blood test.

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That'll be the interstitial fluid then lol. Thank you tim for finally proving that there are faulty sensors and it's not user misunderstanding. This is a really really good experiment

Are u leaving them a bit longer to track the differences?
 
Yes. There are 6 days left on the old sensor, so I thought it would make sense to keep both running for that period.
 
noblehead said:
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Yes I am, I've done as Rob suggested and will be alerted when they next become available, I'm changing to a pump in the next few weeks so the Freestyle Libre will be invaluable.
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If it doesn't become available soon I am happy for you to use my account. Your support and advice was invaluable when I first joined the forum.

Good luck with the pump


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daniT1D said:
If it doesn't become available soon I am happy for you to use my account. Your support and advice was invaluable when I first joined the forum.

Good luck with the pump


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Thank you danti your offer is most kind, but my DSN says I may be able to loan a CGM when I first start on the pump, but thanks for your offer anyway, it's very much appreciated:)
 
@Emmotha it would appear both our reviews are now on the cafepharma site, almost as though there was someone who reads this forum on there!

On a different note, but linked to this, what we need the pen makers to do is include sensor like tech in the pen. Think echo ++. Every time you inject, the pen records time and amount. This can be scanned into some form of reader. The glucose readings have the same capability. Maybe both a cell phone. Then all you have to add is the food manually. Much more useful MIS!
 
tim2000s said:
@Emmotha it would appear both our reviews are now on the cafepharma site, almost as though there was someone who reads this forum on there!

On a different note, but linked to this, what we need the pen makers to do is include sensor like tech in the pen. Think echo ++. Every time you inject, the pen records time and amount. This can be scanned into some form of reader. The glucose readings have the same capability. Maybe both a cell phone. Then all you have to add is the food manually. Much more useful MIS!
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Yep. Have u read the thread? Or at least the last couple of pages? They are saying a lot about abbott
 
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