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That is interesting to me. I too have a libre 2 plus on trial and am going to decide whether I self fund it permanently as I have found it very useful. On a morning I have 3 eggs and two slices of toast (wholemeal with 10g carbs per slice). Overnight I am around 5.2 -5.5 and when I have the...

Hi all, Hope you are all well. I've been wearing my Libre 2 plus for a week now and just thought I'd ask a few questions to see if I am right or mistaken etc. I now know that I absolutely must not eat white bread, white wraps, mashed potato as they give me a real large spike (up to 11...

Brilliant - that's great news. Have you done anything in particular to get a big drop?

I have told everyone I know and especially anyone who cooks for me, it never really occured to me to not tell anyone. My mother thinks I take it far too seriously - she is type 2 herself and can happily chomp on chocolate, cakes and sweets. I do have acces to her NHS records and can see...

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Hi @Pipp, Maybe the finger pricking is a thing for me to do as it seems a lot cheaper. I'll look into that. I know it sounds daft, but does your finger end up looking like a pin cushion? Do you vary between fingers? I don't really fancy it and this is why the CGM to me was great as I...

Just wanted to say thank you to @Pipp I took your advice and got the trials for both the Libre2 and the Dexcom. I've been testing different foods over the last few days on it and it's been mostly fine - I am not really affected by crisps at all which is good as I'll have a packet every now...

Hi, thanks very much for the reply it is so helpful. It's still a bit of an unknown minefield for me even after being diagnosed for two years. Yes, I am still only on Metformin but have dropped down to 2 tablets a day instead of 4 about a month ago. I spoke to my diabetic nurse who was...

Ok, that was fun. I had the Toby Carvery. I had three large spoons of mashed potato, 2 roast potatoes in animal fat, carrots, turkey, gravy and mint sauce. My readings spiked at 11.2 mmol 55 minutes after eating. It then came back down, one hour and 30 after the meal it was 8.3 and then...

I had my breakfast this morning at 8am and the readings were a lot higher, haha. My hope of a miracle was short lived, haha. I had two slices of toast (wholemeal bread containg 20g of carbs), margarine and 4 eggs. Within minutes the readings started going up and by 8.30am it peaked at 9.1...

Haha, I'm at a friends house and to test it we looked at the highest amount of carbs in a bag of crisps she had. They are Doritos Zingy Salt & Vinegar 70g bag which says on the packet it is 60g per 100g (that had confused me a bit, haha). By my calculations it is actually 42g of carbs...

I ate the grab bag of crisps 2 hours ago which had 60g of carbs in it. I was 6.1 at 70 minues and then it dropped. Just checked now and it is 6.2 mmol.

Thanks for the reply. The thing is though, it spiked at 7.1 so I did have some sugar (the mince was in gravy) and then came back down to 4.6 mmol within 1 hour and 45 minutes. I'm now eating the big bag of crisps and will see what happens.

Hi All, Thanks to the great advice on this forum I have got a two week trial from Libre. I have installed it this afternoon and have got readings which is good. It was 6.4 mmol at 5pm and then I ate a meal of minced beef and salad (lettuce, tomatoes, onions, peppers and salad cream (low fat...

Thanks for your recommendations. I have now got the Libre 2 plus on a 15 day trial. I installed it at 15:15 and it takes an hour to give a reading. It's currently showing as 6.2 mmol and I ate at 2pm so 2 hours 20 minutes ago. Looking online this is an ok reading. I'll be eating at...