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<blockquote data-quote="MeiChanski" data-source="post: 2204516" data-attributes="member: 503481"><p>Hello I have been fortunate enough to try both. Libre, in my eyes is not a CGM, you have to scan it to show results. However it does provide a graph and trends for you to identify where you are going wrong. Unfortunately it lags 15 mins behind a figure prick test, so if you are dropping or going up rapidly, the libre might not have picked it up. It also doesn’t have alarms to alert if it’s predicting a low or a high. If you want alarms, as others have said, you’ll need a third party gadget for it. Whereas Dexcom does have that feature and it also provides trends and data. It lags around 5 mins behind a blood test so you can intervene much quicker. unfortunately it is far too expensive for the NHS to fund it. Libre might be a tad easier to get. I found both to be fairly accurate but adhesive on the Dexcom didn’t stick well on me and I have dry skin. Sometimes Dexcom loses signal and sometimes it has sensor issues. I’ve had less issues with the libre sensors. However, libre 2 is coming to the UK soon, some time this year. That provides alarms and alerts so it’ll be interesting to see that compete with Dexcom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MeiChanski, post: 2204516, member: 503481"] Hello I have been fortunate enough to try both. Libre, in my eyes is not a CGM, you have to scan it to show results. However it does provide a graph and trends for you to identify where you are going wrong. Unfortunately it lags 15 mins behind a figure prick test, so if you are dropping or going up rapidly, the libre might not have picked it up. It also doesn’t have alarms to alert if it’s predicting a low or a high. If you want alarms, as others have said, you’ll need a third party gadget for it. Whereas Dexcom does have that feature and it also provides trends and data. It lags around 5 mins behind a blood test so you can intervene much quicker. unfortunately it is far too expensive for the NHS to fund it. Libre might be a tad easier to get. I found both to be fairly accurate but adhesive on the Dexcom didn’t stick well on me and I have dry skin. Sometimes Dexcom loses signal and sometimes it has sensor issues. I’ve had less issues with the libre sensors. However, libre 2 is coming to the UK soon, some time this year. That provides alarms and alerts so it’ll be interesting to see that compete with Dexcom. [/QUOTE]
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