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I'm a 62 yo male, displaying a classic phenotype of Asian mid-region obesity, with low metabolic activity and sedentary life style.
I have been struggling with a dietary approach to reduction of blood sugar for around fifteen months now.
Now for some data.
During this period, I observed...
Hello, I've just joined the forum on behalf of my Dad, who is a well-controlled type 1 diabetic, but is not used to using forums such as these!
My mum died recently and I am worried about his blood glucose overnight, even though he is well-controlled and so he bought a Miao Miao, has...
My daughter was diagnosed as Type I recently. After a lot of research on this and other forums, we zeroed in on the Abbott Libre as a 'must have' piece of equipment. However, there are two different versions of this device- the Freestyle Libre and the Libre Pro. Both differ in functionality...
My last day of Freestyle Libre ends with a punishing 10 mmols postmeal rise!
Given the sharpness of the peak and drop, I think regular glucose monitoring with finger pricks test would likely have missed it...
I took the plunge and got a Libre Sensor without the reader.
Activated it with Glimp S and took readings with Glimp on Samsung Note 2.
My staple lunch at 12pm...minimal post meal glucose blip.
Just felt compelled to share... Been using the Freestyle libre now for about 3 months and find it a great piece of kit especially been able to scan the sensor to see trends and impending Hypos etc. My only issue is that the readings can differ from the actual BS readings between .5 and 2 mmols...