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Just tossed one into the bin, it was giving readings that were less than half what a pair of finger prick meters gave. Entertaining watching the Libre reporting that I was now dead of hypoglycaemia. Once my blood sugar was approaching zero, out pops the "sensor error" flag. I nickname mine...

Present sensor is just lying it's **** off at the moment, I've got an old Jazz tester at work & got the following. 6.5 mmol libre, 11.9 jazz, 5.1 libre, 11.6 jazz, I was just assuming it was the test strips being out of date Once home, using the new, utterly absurdly clumsy new Caresense blood...

I used to run, a lot. Usually 5 miles every other evening. But plantar fasciitis when I was 52 put paid to that. Fortunately I could still cycle without pain, & live in Dartmoor, (not HMP!). As I get older and exercise less, my diabetic control is more akin to herding cats. There is definitely...

X2 on positioning the sensor where you can't lie on it. The sensor app does have a habit of changing its mind and rewriting the blood sugar graph history, sometimes by quite a margin. Handy, when you have eaten carbs to sort a "hypo", then finding ten minutes later that the app has rewritten the...

And Zukka needs IOS16, so not for my iphone 7 unfortunately.

Thankyou for the heads up :)

Libre 2 plus user here. My biggest gripe with these is when exercising. Bear in mind exercise is cycling up 1000 foot of 1in5 hill onto Dartmoor. The sensor will freak with the falling blood glucose levels and go silent. So the biggest use of these things to warn that your blood sugar is going...

Just reading a post with Emshore's 14 year old son recently diagnosed as diabetic. It brought back memories of "the state of the art" 1982 when I also was a newly diabetic 14 year old lad. 10ml bottles of Initard double acting insulin (made from pig pancreas's harvested from the bacon factory...