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<blockquote data-quote="RSJ1301" data-source="post: 1950999" data-attributes="member: 193030"><p>As my G6 trial came to an end I decided I liked the CGM experience so much that I needed to continue it in some manner. With the prospect of Libre on prescription in the New Year I ordered a Miaomiao transmitter.</p><p></p><p>It arrived very quickly, not from China but Warrington... I wonder if they send over bulk orders to a shipper in the UK and send them out from there. At any rate, no problems with delivery (though there was no order tracking that I could see despite the website's assertions).</p><p></p><p>My experiences with it as a CGM have not been so positive though. I now have 3 potential sources of data - direct scanning of the Libre, blood glucose, and Miaomiao/Spike. As with Dexcom the Miaomiao needs calibrating regularly for use with Spike. It has been consistently way out... either reading persistently high or low and triggering alarms which have driven me to shut down the app for periods of time. BG and Libre have by contrast been in close agreement, with the usual bit of a delay on the Libre if there are rapid changes in BG. About the only thing I'm getting usefully from the CGM side is whether my BG is going up or down (and even then it's slow to do so)</p><p></p><p>I upgraded to the latest release of Spike thinking this might help, but if anything it's worse and I have downgraded to the previous version. I suspect this is more an issue with Miaomiao than Spike (which worked very well with the G6); I'm just puzzled that my Libre reader can give such wildly different readings and trends from Spike, and that these are not even consistent differences.</p><p></p><p>Thinking seriously of the G6 again, if I can stretch out sensors and transmitter life...!</p><p></p><p>(oh, and btw I didn't get any skin reactions from the G6 adhesive (at least after 3 sensors) but did to the K-tape I used to keep it on later in its life!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RSJ1301, post: 1950999, member: 193030"] As my G6 trial came to an end I decided I liked the CGM experience so much that I needed to continue it in some manner. With the prospect of Libre on prescription in the New Year I ordered a Miaomiao transmitter. It arrived very quickly, not from China but Warrington... I wonder if they send over bulk orders to a shipper in the UK and send them out from there. At any rate, no problems with delivery (though there was no order tracking that I could see despite the website's assertions). My experiences with it as a CGM have not been so positive though. I now have 3 potential sources of data - direct scanning of the Libre, blood glucose, and Miaomiao/Spike. As with Dexcom the Miaomiao needs calibrating regularly for use with Spike. It has been consistently way out... either reading persistently high or low and triggering alarms which have driven me to shut down the app for periods of time. BG and Libre have by contrast been in close agreement, with the usual bit of a delay on the Libre if there are rapid changes in BG. About the only thing I'm getting usefully from the CGM side is whether my BG is going up or down (and even then it's slow to do so) I upgraded to the latest release of Spike thinking this might help, but if anything it's worse and I have downgraded to the previous version. I suspect this is more an issue with Miaomiao than Spike (which worked very well with the G6); I'm just puzzled that my Libre reader can give such wildly different readings and trends from Spike, and that these are not even consistent differences. Thinking seriously of the G6 again, if I can stretch out sensors and transmitter life...! (oh, and btw I didn't get any skin reactions from the G6 adhesive (at least after 3 sensors) but did to the K-tape I used to keep it on later in its life!) [/QUOTE]
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