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I carry a pill divider with twelve different tablets daily, and chief prescriptions are metformin and atorvastatin. It's not that metformin causes hypoglycemia; unless an extra dose is taken (two tablets together, for example), it doesn't. Regardless of the medication, the overriding...

I haven't had a Libre sensor fall off, but I wipe the area down with alcohol several times to remove any greases or oil on the skin, and shave the area before application, and wipe again with alcohol and then a cloth. I carefully smooth the fabric around the sensor after application to ensure...

A1C has been the gold standard for some time for diabetes diagnosis, and in turn, for initiating or determining treatment, but it's got some serious shortcomings. What really does damage in the body are spikes, and one can have a fairly flat daily blood sugar curve, with a given A1C, and a...

I had a flight surgeon some years ago that lost 65 lbs in short order, and when I enquired, he said he'd undertaken the "white diet." I asked what that might be, and he said he didn't eat anything white. By that, he meant bread, sugar, rice, etc. Clearly starches and carbs in general, and of...

Eggs and bacon, and some yogurt. A few spoon-fulls of peanut butter. I take 1000 mg metformin twice daily, and 40 mg atorvastatin once, plus an assortment of vitamins and supplements. Shortly after starting on my diet and meds, I lost considerable weight, and my cholesterol dropped to the...

It's different every day, but I really think fasting glucose is a poor metric and given far too much credence over better measurements such as time in range. Post-meal readings are far more significant, as are the spikes or fluctuations, rather than the absolute values. I typically see about...

I use the application on an iphone. 100% of the sensors failed in the first 24 hours, going high and low. I've come to see this as some kind of calibration procedure; they don't reflect actual blood sugar, and the application warns users to do finger sticks for the first 24 hours...but if one...

Thank you.

Hello; new here, directed to this thread as a new guy. I am posting from the US, though most of my time is spent abroad in Europe, Asia, the middle east, africa, Australia, somewhere in the pacific, or south America. I incur a lot of daily time zone changes, with trips typically being 4000 to...

I use the Libre 3 and 3 Plus. I've made a couple of posts commenting on them. I consider them failure-prone and unreliable. They're considerably less expensive than the Dexcom, which I haven't tried (due to cost). I do get regular low glucose alarms in the night, sometimes waking me...

I use the Libre 3 and Libre 3 Plus; I've had them for about a year now. I have little good to say about the accuracy or reliability of the sensors, which frequently fail, go low, or simply don't reflect blood glucose. I'm aware of the differences in the methodology of reading and what's being...

New here; type II from outside the UK (but travel there with some regularity, if that counts). In regard to the original post, even my doctor told me to read the Glucose Goddess material, which I did. I read it critically and highlighted as I read (my habit); some was common sense, some I...

I have been using the Libre 3 and 3 Plus sensors for a year or so, now. It's rare that I don't experience a failure on a sensor, which either completely fails, or which goes low repeatedly, causing alarms. Subsequent finger sticks with a ReliOn Platinum glucometer show the blood glucose in an...