Alan Playford
Member
Hi all.
I was diagnosed last year with diabetes type 3C after a routine blood test had dangerously high A1C levels ad after pancreatitis the previous year.
I had been called in to the hospital urgently that night, spent a few days in hospital, and they diagnosed type 3C which looks as if it had been undiagnosed for 18 months or so, with a collapse some months earlier inclding a brief blackout and confusion for about 20 minutes being attributed to a TIA (mini-stroke). However, all TIA tests passed with flying colours, but my recently new-found knowledge about diabetes leads me to believe it was actually a hypo?!
Anyway, being extremely needle-phobic, the hospital diabetes team tried to minimise any needle activity by only prescribing twice daily mixed (fast and slow acting) Hamulin M3 insulin pens and a Freestyle Libre2 arm sensor with the phone app to avoid the nasty pin pricks as much as possible.
The Libre generally works well, although in the last 6 months I've had to get replacements 3 times for "faulty" sensors.
My latest one missed some data this morning, and wouldn't fill it in even after re-scanning.
But a more worrying trend to me is the failure of the Libre2 to continuously report glucose levels, especially when a sudden high increase or low decrease occurs?
They frequently seem to report a couple of interval readings, then lose the signal completely even if the phone is next to the sensor?!
A re-scan sometimes works, but also very often states I have to wait 10 minutes and try again - all at the very time when I need those readings to ensure they don't go even higher or lower!
I also find that sometimes successive readings show an increase or decrease of at least 1 mmol/DL, which seems excessive from one minute to the next, even for my bodily system functions?
Do others find this, or is just me?
Needless to say, I will be replacing this latest sensor as it appears untrustworthy!
Thanks in advance for any insights and comments!
I was diagnosed last year with diabetes type 3C after a routine blood test had dangerously high A1C levels ad after pancreatitis the previous year.
I had been called in to the hospital urgently that night, spent a few days in hospital, and they diagnosed type 3C which looks as if it had been undiagnosed for 18 months or so, with a collapse some months earlier inclding a brief blackout and confusion for about 20 minutes being attributed to a TIA (mini-stroke). However, all TIA tests passed with flying colours, but my recently new-found knowledge about diabetes leads me to believe it was actually a hypo?!
Anyway, being extremely needle-phobic, the hospital diabetes team tried to minimise any needle activity by only prescribing twice daily mixed (fast and slow acting) Hamulin M3 insulin pens and a Freestyle Libre2 arm sensor with the phone app to avoid the nasty pin pricks as much as possible.
The Libre generally works well, although in the last 6 months I've had to get replacements 3 times for "faulty" sensors.
My latest one missed some data this morning, and wouldn't fill it in even after re-scanning.
But a more worrying trend to me is the failure of the Libre2 to continuously report glucose levels, especially when a sudden high increase or low decrease occurs?
They frequently seem to report a couple of interval readings, then lose the signal completely even if the phone is next to the sensor?!
A re-scan sometimes works, but also very often states I have to wait 10 minutes and try again - all at the very time when I need those readings to ensure they don't go even higher or lower!
I also find that sometimes successive readings show an increase or decrease of at least 1 mmol/DL, which seems excessive from one minute to the next, even for my bodily system functions?
Do others find this, or is just me?
Needless to say, I will be replacing this latest sensor as it appears untrustworthy!
Thanks in advance for any insights and comments!