hankjam
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I have been on this site for sometime and after the first few years I have been happy to do my daily Fasting reading and the occasional post. This is the first in some time.
I blood test once a day, near first thing. Recently my fingers have been taking a bit of a hammering and I was finding the test was often pretty sore and blood would not always pop out. I thought I would try the Abbott Libre 2+ and got a trail one early last year. It was fine and that was that.
At the start of the year I ordered from Amazon and soon after another two directly from Abbott.
I am, for me, low carbing, averaging 22g a day, 1500 cals, 115g fat and 100g protein.
I eat a bowl of yogurt around 11:00, some lunch around 13:30 and supper 19:15.
My traces show an increase from getting up to mid day and then a decline to when I get up. Nighttime is a low flat line. There are very few spikes to what I have eaten, currently.
I test against a Contour Next and a SD and am really pleased / surprised how close they are.
Getting out of bed will raise my level by 1 unit in the blink of an eye, typically from 4.2 to 5.2.
If I am cold, outside, or have a cold shower the increase is rapid and transitory.
I can go very low in my sleep for periods of time, 3 and when my son is cuddled into my arm pit and the sensor is being pressed on, possibly.
I haven't any problems with the sensor coming off, I thought I would this morning when taking off my PJ top and sweater and it held.
I am having great difficulty trying to get the data to download from my iPhone to my Windows 11 desktop. I can't seem to find the page app to do this...
In conclusion: pretty happy and will continue till my fingers recover.
Thank you for reading this far.
I blood test once a day, near first thing. Recently my fingers have been taking a bit of a hammering and I was finding the test was often pretty sore and blood would not always pop out. I thought I would try the Abbott Libre 2+ and got a trail one early last year. It was fine and that was that.
At the start of the year I ordered from Amazon and soon after another two directly from Abbott.
I am, for me, low carbing, averaging 22g a day, 1500 cals, 115g fat and 100g protein.
I eat a bowl of yogurt around 11:00, some lunch around 13:30 and supper 19:15.
My traces show an increase from getting up to mid day and then a decline to when I get up. Nighttime is a low flat line. There are very few spikes to what I have eaten, currently.
I test against a Contour Next and a SD and am really pleased / surprised how close they are.
Getting out of bed will raise my level by 1 unit in the blink of an eye, typically from 4.2 to 5.2.
If I am cold, outside, or have a cold shower the increase is rapid and transitory.
I can go very low in my sleep for periods of time, 3 and when my son is cuddled into my arm pit and the sensor is being pressed on, possibly.
I haven't any problems with the sensor coming off, I thought I would this morning when taking off my PJ top and sweater and it held.
I am having great difficulty trying to get the data to download from my iPhone to my Windows 11 desktop. I can't seem to find the page app to do this...
In conclusion: pretty happy and will continue till my fingers recover.
Thank you for reading this far.