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<blockquote data-quote="Twisticles" data-source="post: 2212898" data-attributes="member: 496546"><p>I agree that Libre sensors are good for trends, and any anomalous readings should be double checked. Certainly you get a more instant read from blood than you do interstitial fluid.</p><p></p><p>But it's a bit misleading to say that readings are not always accurate and can be 1.5mmol/L out or more. This is true for any meter, which are basically only required to be 15-20% accurate according to FDA/ISO standards. So if your BG is around 10mmol/L then any reading from 8mmol to 12mmol is considered "accurate" for *any* kind of meter, not just the Libre. They're all supposed to follow the same standards, yet you can find tons of articles about well-known finger-prick readers that don't meet the 15% accuracy 95% of the time/20% accuracy 99% of the time criteria. So who is to say your finger-prick reader is right and your libre isn't?</p><p></p><p>If you really want to know how your meter skews, then take a reading when you next go for labs, and compare your lab BG to your meter or libre BG.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Twisticles, post: 2212898, member: 496546"] I agree that Libre sensors are good for trends, and any anomalous readings should be double checked. Certainly you get a more instant read from blood than you do interstitial fluid. But it's a bit misleading to say that readings are not always accurate and can be 1.5mmol/L out or more. This is true for any meter, which are basically only required to be 15-20% accurate according to FDA/ISO standards. So if your BG is around 10mmol/L then any reading from 8mmol to 12mmol is considered "accurate" for *any* kind of meter, not just the Libre. They're all supposed to follow the same standards, yet you can find tons of articles about well-known finger-prick readers that don't meet the 15% accuracy 95% of the time/20% accuracy 99% of the time criteria. So who is to say your finger-prick reader is right and your libre isn't? If you really want to know how your meter skews, then take a reading when you next go for labs, and compare your lab BG to your meter or libre BG. [/QUOTE]
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