Hello
Is there any IT geeks that can hack the thing and extend its life?
Surely it can be done as they are a f*cking expensive
And I am super reliant on mine , but am annoyed that it’s costing me £100 per month
(Wear mine on top of leg inner bit and is almost spot on with the blood finger)
Thank you
It's been tried by people who really know they're stuff, but without success (thus far!)
See, for example, the thread at link below. The posters there, JoernL, and SandraK82, built their own bluetooth transmitters from scratch, respectively limiTTer and Bluereader, which were the first ways of turning libre into cgm. They patently know a
lot about electronics and haven't been able to do it, as far as I'm aware, although I don't really follow it much.
Using xDrip+ with a Blucon transmitter, I regularly get 14 days and 12 hours - I remember getting quite excited the first time I was continuing to get readings on the phone through xDrip+ after the scanner was saying the sensor was dead, vainly hoping it would carry on for another week or something, but, no luck, 12 hours and that was it. Still, a small victory!
https://github.com/JoernL/LimiTTer/issues/13
Interestingly, another thread suggests the USA time limit of 10 days can be got round through Glimp, seemingly extending it to the European 14 days - maybe of interest to American users if it's true.
https://forum.tudiabetes.org/t/new-us-freestyle-libre-user-experience/65106
And as Mel says, there might be issues with the glucose oxidase wearing out if it is extended, although dexcom users seem to get lengthy periods past it's official seven days before they get too noisy.
