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Question: so do you apply 24 hours before activating ?

? No.. I just use straight away after 60 minutes. Just done my daughters night check and had a panic! We have always used an hour after applying.. are readings really that inaccurate for 24 hours?

So I put a new libre on tonight and it is way off compared to bloods. This happened about 3 units ago on one of my daughters sensors. I emailed Abbott the last time and they fobbed me off with ‘timing’ issues. By the time we I finished email exchanges the sensor had expired. Anyway.. I’ve had...

So, after consultation with my dsn and lots of helpful posts here I decided to go on the lads ski trip. I’m 4 days in and so far no hypos! I have however not been managing my highs very well, I’m so paranoid about going low out on the slope I’m running pretty high. Have reduced my lantus to 16...

Nope.. doesn’t affect it at all. The hole left behind is minute and disappears after a bit

I had exactly the same symptoms, sent home from a&E with a bg reading of 38! I went for a second opinion at my gp and got a direct appointment with the diabetes team who put me on insulin and diagnosed type 1 same day. You need to see a dr ASAP imo. >> edit: Oh, I’ve been on insulin 3 weeks now...

Father and daughter bionic arms! (That’s what we call them :)) Got my libre today, hopefully will help me manage my levels a bit better, well at least trend and avoid the daytime hypos..!

Ok great.. thx for the replies! Hopefully it’ll sort itself out!

I’ve been diagnosed t1 for the last 2 weeks, when I got diagnosed my long distance focus was completely shot - I’ve been told because I was so high. As I’ve come down over the last 2 weeks my focus long distance has come back. Now I can’t focus on anything close, I’m struggling to read my phone...

It’s the number 4 lines down on each day.. I’ve Benn entering them for each meal. I’ll try 1:10 and then go from there... many thanks all! Happy new year

Will work through the bertieoine thing, I just need to the formula for ICR to get a rough idea. Going to order my libre too.. was holding out for a free starter kit from the diabetes team, but having multiple hypos a day because of these static doses is not good.

Hi, so its been 10 days since diagnosis.. this is a lot harder than I thought it would be! The DSN put my doses up a week ago to static 9/9/9 novorapid and 20 lantus. I am really not sure this is the best way to manage this.. We manage my daughter who is 8 with type 1 on a libre (3 months...

Thank you all.. appreciate your time and responses. I’m about a month away, so plenty of time to prepare. Will go do a few hours at the snow dome - to get a feel for my body response, talk to my dn about reductions and get on the libre!! Have a great Xmas all...

For my daughter we got the reader and our first sensor free.. been buying them since. I asked the nurse yesterday for the same reader/sensor kit she said I need to be more in control before they would give it to me (some bull about reader/blood discrepancies - I know this, but the blood reading...

Heh..,I’m brand new. Diagnosed Wednesday. So currently running high in the 20s. My numbers will come down! Doing 4 injections a day novorapid 5/5/5 and 16 Lantus. Testing every 2 hours. I want to push for a libre as this made management of my daughter so much easier. As to hypos.. I’m yet to...

Well after a heck of a week I am now diagnosed T1. 3 months ago my 8yr old was diagnosed and we went through a bad time with ‘honeymoon’ period, lots of lows and a collapse. I think I’m kinda prepared for my own diagnosis after managing the little ones for the last 3 months. Couple of questions...

Well, back the hospital and seen the diabetes team. Diagnosed type1.. :/ At least I know what’s ahead with having to manage my daughter for the last 3 months.

So trip to a&e and blood gas of 38... bit on the high side! Ketones are nominal and no other issues. Back to the gp.. looks like type 2 diagnosis.

Did a ketones this morning at 0.2, another check now and it’s 0.5. Both less than 1 - so is all ok

I know this isn’t the place for medical advice and a trip to the gp is on the cards! But here’s my situation.. I manage my daughters type 1 (since sept) it’s been an eye opener for us and a big learning curve. As a family thing (we have 2 spare BM readers) we all did a glucose test and all dam...