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Congrats on getting your numbers down so quickly. That's a huge improvement and must feel much better. Is this monitored with libre/CGM or finger pricks? 8-9 isn't that bad, and going that high for a bit after a meal wouldn't bother me, but regularly staying there all day is not ideal. Yes, it...

For me high intensity activities with an anaerobic element that make my heart race, such as weightlifting, make it go up, while a steady slow to brisk walk (particularly uphill) reliably brings it down. Not sure what's the dividing line or if there's a level of intensity that can be neutral in...

I'm kicking myself right now, as I just broke maybe my longest streak of 100% in range BG ever. I over injected for a rise, then was dropping too fast and had no choice other than to have some carbs to treat it. I'm T1 for decades, often low carb, but not very experienced with true keto. This...

Thank you both. It does sound good!

I know what you mean about the Dextro ones in the paper. Bad memories of needing some when out and finding the ones that had been sitting in my bag too long were hard as rocks but having to crunch through them anyway! With Lift, I buy the pots of 50 to refill the smaller tubes I carry, and top...

Not in LibreLink, but most of the unofficial apps like Glimp, Diabox, Xdrip have ways of calibrating.

The Libre has been a huge help for me in achieving better control, but I never fully trust it, and strongly disagree about the advice that finger prick checks are unnecessary. I've had some sensors that give crazy false low readings in the first day or 2 then settle down, others that work fine...

When I get sudden highs with no obvious cause I usually put it down to my immune system. For me it's often the first sign I'm getting sick, before any other symptoms show up. Sometimes I've had these unexplained highs for a day or two without being ill after, but I like to think those were times...

Like others here, I find heavy strength training raises my BG, while low intensity cardio lowers it. I used to do nearly all strength and little cardio, and would often need a bolus before or during to keep it down. Recently I've been adding a lot more cardio, and in the effort to reduce my...

I suppose cats would be fairly low carb, but it's somewhat frowned upon to eat them

I use kinesiology tape. I cut a short length (rounding the corners to reduce chance of it peeling off, and making sure the skin there is dry and without sun lotion/moisturiser). I also put a disk of paper the size of the sensor between them to avoid pulling off the sensor when you remove the...

For type 1s I believe the guidelines now allow them to prescribe the Freestyle Libre without any further criteria, and I've not heard of any T1s having trouble getting it in recent years. I don't have experience with getting a true CGM prescribed, but a quick search indicates that at least in...

I actually much prefer having the alarms be snoozed like in Xdrip rather than just dismissed forever like in Librelink. A few times when using LL I've been slightly high before bed, but with it looking like it's heading down back into range, so I'd turn off the alarm and go to sleep, only to...

Over the last few months my insulin sensitivity has gone up dramatically, and I find I'm using less than half the doses I used to. While I'm happy about this development (I believe the result of an increase in daily cardio and diet improvements), I'm now running into problems with the basal...

Hi @Dave46049 That's correct about the price and duration. I don't think there's any way to get a bulk discount, it does look like they sometimes do some free sample scheme, but not right now. For T1s I believe getting it prescribed is now easy enough across the UK. I had to jump through some...

Hi @Mike88 Thanks, and sorry to hear you're facing the same issues. Yes, I've reported and they're sending replacements. Hopefully these ones will work. My guess is that it's a hardware issue of some sensors produced with dud BT transmitters, not software, because the problem happens even...

I've had several problem sensors in a row now not connecting via bluetooth, so they can't give any alarms. I normally start the sensor with the reader, then use DiaBox on my android. This has worked for me for a while and I can't think of anything I've changed. The reader gets readings when I...

That's a nice tip, thanks. When running both LibreLink and Diabox, I presume you turn off all alarms in LL and just scan with it at least once every 8 hrs to get the graphs? Do you turn off bluetooth and notification permissions for LL too?

Thank you all. After some restarting and cache clearing I got Diabox working with Bluetooth and so far am loving it! Having minute-by-minute readings right there on the lock screen and status bar without even having to open the app is great. I started my new sensor with the reader device, but...

Thanks. I need to read through the setup for OOP2. So far I started Diabox and it works for NFC readings no problem, but I haven't managed to get it to receive bluetooth readings yet.