@hh1 sorry for the doggy disturbed night. Here’s hoping on a big improvement for her today.
I confess to doing very few blood tests. (Just looked and done about 10 in the last fortnight) Some days none at all. It all depends on how my bloods are behaving on the Libre. At the moment I am going through a very settled stage with lovely straight lines in the middle of my range. This tends to last a couple of weeks. Then for absolutely no reason I will have a couple of weeks of constant highs requiring half unit nudges throughout the day. So I may test bloods once at the beginning of the day, to see if that high range aligns. Then follows two weeks of lows, which require the jelly baby nudge. I test more frequently if I feel very low. This is a pattern my diabetes has settled into over the years, which has become more obvious since wearing the Libre and my consultant agrees I would find it very difficult to manage without.
I also test more on the first day for confidence and the last day when it seems less reliable. My last HBA1C was 45. So my faith in it is justified. I feel lucky. Besides, I have tested the same time on 3 different meters and had ranges 2mmol apart so I don’t get too hung up on exact amounts these days, as long as I am feeling about right.
Does anyone else feel that they start to have a bit of a relationship with this disc on your arm? I have to put a new one on today ready for tomorrow, and always start to feel a little sad.