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Hi Nahog, Sorry - just saw this, I hadn't checked in here for a while. No - I've still not received my BluCon, almost 2 months now since I placed the order, and AmbrosiaSys customer service has been very unresponsive. It is pretty frustrating.

I have the reader but hardly ever use it these days, as I always have my phone with me. The only downside I've noticed with the phone is that the NFC range is a bit less than the reader, so it sometimes takes a couple of goes to hold it on exactly the right spot long enough to get a reading...

Thanks Scott, I was really looking forward to trying mine, but it has been almost a month since I ordered, and it still hasn't shown up. I last emailed AmbrosiaSys 11 days ago asking about it and they haven't responded. So not too impressed with their customer service so far...

Just to add one more user's experience- Out of about 30 sensors I've had since I started using the Libre, I think maybe 7 or 8 have come off before the full 2 weeks. Sometimes they just loosened and fell off, particularly during summer with a lot of working out and sweating and frequent showers...

Great news! Just ordered myself a Blucon after seeing this. Interested to hear more about how you get on with it.

@Scott-C - I completely agree about the Libre's own predictive algorithm overdoing it sometimes, massively exaggerating rising highs or falling lows. I have both Glimp and LibreLink on my phone, and after a while of comparing the graphs from the two, it is clear that the official app does a lot...

Firstly, congratulations on your new gains, that's some great early progress. It does take a while to adjust BG management to regular heavy training, but once you do I find it is actually a big help in keeping my levels good. It might be a changed metabolic rate like you say, but I'd guess a...

Technically I believe insulin is a peptide, not a steroid, so in a different class of hormones. I guess though that your question is more about whether it counts as a PED (performance enhancing drug), a category which includes many substances besides steroids. For most drug tested sports...

Thanks, good point about sunscreen. No - I don't have this anywhere else, just very localised at the most used injection sites, which is why I didn't think it quite fit the usual descriptions of vitiligo, which I saw as something more spontaneous. So as @gavin86 suggests I did think it could be...

Have any of you ever experienced loss of skin pigmentation at injection sites? If so, did it revert to normal colour after leaving those sites alone long enough? I'm on Lantus and Humalog and have been for over 10 years. I always do the Lantus in my upper thigh/butt, and the Humalog mostly in...

Thanks @GrantGam - this is a useful suggestion. I haven't tried in my arms for a long time, as the previous times I did resulted in bleeding/going into muscle, but perhaps with a different technique it is worth another try.

Thank you all for your replies. I guess I could try and be a bit more systematic in my site rotation - my current technique is just to feel around until I find a spot that feels fresh. 5 regular injections a day plus usually at least a couple more correction doses take their toll though. Also I...

Does anyone here inject insulin into their upper chest? I've been trying to give my stomach sites a rest (getting some slight scarring) and experimenting with this for my bolus injections. So far chest seems okay, fairly fast absorption, and not much pain, though I've only tried a couple of...

I got the same pop-up from the LibreLink website, but the link to the Play store works fine and let me download it.

Have any of you been using the new official Libre Android app? How are you finding it so far? any issues? I've been using Glimp (a non-official Libre android app) a lot when out and about over the last few months, and have been generally pleased with it, and enjoying not having to carry an...

Oh don't worry, I don't, thanks! The numbers I picked were purely hypothetical, not my actual readings. I'm fully aware that even moderate highs for sustained periods are damaging. I'm simply trying to get a clearer picture of just how damaging different levels are relative to each other. Of...

Thank you all, this is a really interesting discussion. I hadn't given a lot of thought to damage from glycemic variability before, and will be paying closer attention to it from now on. Now the question remains of how to put this into practise. I think many of us find regular numerical measures...

Also to respond to @tim2000s point about the damaging effect of rapid changes, I suppose a better measure should also factor this in somehow.

Thanks @SamJB - yes, that seems something like what I was imagining, but I agree with @Oldvatr that simply taking the area between the horizontal line at 0mmol and the actual curve would not be a good measure. For instance, by this measure, 10 hours at 5.5mmol = 55, while 9 hours at 4.5mmol...

Hi @Clivethedrive, thanks for the reply. Yes, I have Bernstein's book and have found it valuable. However, I don't see an answer to my question in there. He does say that because HbA1c measures average sugar levels it can be deceptively low and fail to reveal brief highs which can still be...