Robbity
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
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- Diet only
@Robbity if it was just early activation then wouldn't you expect it to become more accurate after the first 24 hours of reading?
Or are you suggesting that once it is activated some values are "set in stone" and if the sensor reads low when activated it will always read low?
Intrigued by this. Might give the next sensor 3 days before activation just to see.
I assume there must be a maximum time before activation which still allows the sensor to work for the full 14 days.
To clarify:
As far as I understand it, the 14 days worth (UK period) of live sensor time starts when you activate it, not when you initially insert it, so time between insertion and activation can vary, and this timing for me was 48 hours, so when I used them continuously I just popped a new one on 2 days before old one expired.
When I left a shorter period (12-24 hours) between insertion and activation, I got wonky readings for the first 24 hours as shown by those red lows on the graphs, after which they worked fine for the rest of the period - so I got 12 instead of 14 days worth of useful/sensible readings. But inserting and leaving them to settle for 48 hours before activation, they started off and continued fine, so I had the full 14 days worth of sensible readings.
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