2 weeks into Freestyle Libre 2 Plus "trial"

[Davidden]

I was concerned about always having a morning spike, even after 8-10 hours after my last meal, so I was put on a cgm trial. Since getting the sensor I can see the spike starts anything after 3.00 and keeps going up - with a secondary rise just before I get up - until mid/late morning. The first week I was 60% of the time "in range", but despite making adjustments to my eating habits (even went no carb for a couple of days) the last 7 days I am 70% in the orange, and only 22% "in range"! Being able to see "live" data is actually quite worrying (not life threateningly so!) as before preparing a meal I check on the App, then before eating have another look - and it has gone up, maybe in anticipation of food, and even if I have no carbs it will still always rise a couple of units an hour or so later. I have my next review in 9 days, so am interested to see what they say.

 

[grantg]

if not sharing data with the diabetes team, suggest that you print out report for them the morning of the the review.

www.libreview.com

on the second page of glucose report there might be something mentioned in the section:
Considerations for the Clinician¹
Most Important Pattern:

i trust that your keeping a detailed log, of foods carbs & indeed any exercise? if not would ensure that do. it will be very helpful for team.

i found myself when first used cgm would look at the readings a fair bit and got a little stressed with high and indeed lows. mostly high/low alarm going off will now check, if high light exercise such as a short walk (if directly upwards arrow until arrow points straight if possible). or if low treat. i have customed the alarm to go off a little bit earlier than the default setting.

sorry to hear your time in range. what levels did u set those to be or did u leave them on default? what would be nice if abbots added the ability for range to be different day/night range day eg: 5-8 nights 7-10 was given in past. (now just straight 4-10) i was dropping through the night when they changed range to 7-10