libre

Hi guys - was wondering if any Freestyle Libre users experienced the following??..... Was given a freestyle libre yesterday and basically rushed home to set it up and start using so as to save my finger tips dying a slow and painful death!! After following the instructions to the letter and...

I have type 1 insulin dependant diabetes. I have recently had erratic readings and been advised that using constant monitoring would help to understand my trends. My diabetic nurse has provided me with a new Libre meter. I have to purchase the sensors for it which cost about £58 for 1 sensor...

Hi all, stupid question but how hard do you have to press to get sensor out of applicator. I've just managed to apply my first one by getting my husband to essentially hit it into my arm after I failed to get it out myself! hope it's not broken! All the videos make it look like an say push but...

Hey y'all, I'm injecting Victosa & Lantus. Seems to be working quite well. I've found that splitting it (morning and evening) works really well. BUT - some mornings I'm waking with LOW BG (3.8/4.0mmol/L). So my question is - should I still be dosing up with Victosa & Lantus when I wake? I...

Hi Everyone, Long time reader of the forums, but first time poster. I'm having a problem with my levels, mainly that whenever I eat I seem to have huge prolonged glucose spikes that last nearly 4-5hrs post prandial. I'm constantly fatigued, but also experiencing possible night time hypos and...

Hi there! Have anybody used android-apps to read the data from sensor instead of original receiver? If you have, then: 1) which app have you used? 2) is it consistently enough? how you have checked? 3) does it allow to buy just sensors and use with device? or receiver is anyway needed to apply...

What shape was the dip? A relatively sharp one or a smooth drop and recover? If it was the former, it's possible you lay on the sensor.

I put it in yesterday morning and for the next few hours it read slightly (1-2 mmol/L) off. That's ok, it's the first day of a new sensor so I don't expect it to be perfect. After lunch, I had a hypo. My fingerpricks showed 3.9 then 3.2 then 2.8 then 3.9. However, the Libre quickly decided that...

Just curious after looking at my history on my Libre. After a period of bad control for a couple of weeks due to (not quite resolved yet) basal issues, I discovered that I spent 85% of the time in target (4.5-8.5), 13% above target, and 2% below target. What's a realistic goal for the amount of...

I'm wondering about getting one of these for my T2 wife (on metformin) to use for a short while in the hope of identifying foods which spike her glucose. She doesn't use strips (she tried briefly when first diagnosed but we didn't make much sense of the readings). I am thinking that a continuous...

Hello again:) I know i posted asking for experiences on the freestyle libre and was kindly moved onto a very long thread about people discussing it. I am however posting this because id like a sort of update on how accurate the libre sensors are compared to when they were first brought out. i...

Hi all My graphs are coming up without the lines as in the pic. Should I call Abbott and return the sensor? This is the third sensor now that I've had issues with. The fourth if you count the one I received with OPENED packaging...

Hello! I have just applied my third Libre sensor on my right arm. However, each time I put on the sensor, I feel generally unstable, especially the first couple of days. If the dizziness stops, or if i just accustom after the first days, I don't know, but when I tried a few weeks' break between...

Hi all I try to stay positive with my diabetes but lately it's been really getting to me. I'm training to be a teacher and this is easily the most stressful year of my life with work and my health. I went and saw my DSN on Tuesday and I was there for three hours - not in the waiting room -...

Hi My sensor has been giving me error messages the last few days. Telling me to scan again in 10 minutes. I just synced the data and all the graphs are dots and not connected and there are times where the sensor didn't record any data. Should I send it back to Abbott? It's never happened...

Hey I would like to put my libre on other sites apart from my arms, and was wondering if any of you have put it elsewhere and it worked well? Yisi