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I too mentioned it to Abbott and ............... However they are very helpful in terms of sending me testing strips and a replacement sensor when one of mine fell off.

The lowest setting is 3.9 which I am under most of the time according to the meter.

I've been using a Libre since being diagnosed in early July. Is it 'normal' for the readings to be low, 1 - 2 lower than a finger prick (using Aga Matrix Jazz for this)? According to my Libre average glucose is 4.6 for the last 90 days, 3.7 for the last 30 days and since. I've even had...

I am a newlyish diagnosed type 2 diabetic who is 61 years old. Fasting bloods 10.8 and A1c 76. I have been a sugar junkie all of my life. If I ate bread, cereal, pasta and rice I was chuffed because I was eating a healthy diet. I was still eating sweets, and biscuits and ice cream by the...

Is there a reliable home BG meter? By which I mean one that doesn't consistently read a bit high or a bit low but gives readings the same as the lab that our blood is tested at. I am not expecting my BG monitoring to be the same as the A1c results. The last fasting blood's I had taken my...

I was diagnosed at the beginning of July. On the 2n July my fasting BG was 10.8 and my A1c was 76. I had another fasting BG on the 19th July and it was 6.6. I'm now waiting till I can have another A1c to see how that's going.

I was diagnosed - shock - a month ago, it seems like forever. It's taken over my life, I understand that need to gather up as much info as possible. It is annoying all the different answers/solutions that are out there. BUT which one is the right one, what should I do? I badly want to get it...

Sorry to have taken so long to reply to you all and thank you for replying I did read them just couldn't reply. Since my first post I've had another fasting blood test which was 6.6 and I've now seen a diabetic nurse. I see the nurse again in 3 weeks. I am not on any meds (good) but she...

Hi. Boy am I confused and in a muddle. I had a fasting blood test on 2nd July, heard nothing, I have tinitus so phoned the GP surgery to make an appointment about that and was told by the receptionist that I had to go back and have a repeat fasting blood test. But not worry about this as I...