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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1912748" data-attributes="member: 374531">Welcome to the libre club, Fenn!One tip I'd suggest is that in the first week of using it, try to bg test more than you would normally. Sounds counterintuitive, seeing as the whole point of it is to reduce bg testing.But remember that it's measuring ifg, not bg. There is a difference between the two. I found it really helpful in the first week or two to test bg a lot more than usual, like every hour or so. It gave me a clearer idea of how to understand the differences between the two and why they were sometimes very different.For example, they're likely to be reasonably close when stable, but much further out just after a meal or when on a rapid drop, because ifg takes a bit of time to reflect bg: that's just biology 101 - carbs into stomach, glucose into bloodstream, glucose then from blood into interstitial fluid, and that last part from blood to fluid takes a bit of time, so the two will be different.Doing the extra testing in the first week meant that when I saw differences between libre and meter, I wouldn't just say, oh, it's not the same as my meter, I'd have a think about why.Still, some of the differences will be because it's a sketchy sensor - identifying those dodgy ones is another skill you'll have to learn! Have fun - it's hugely enlightening seeing things happening in (more or less) real time!</blockquote>

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