Jean Debby
Newbie
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Would CGM mean having a pump? Hospital have suggested I might use a pump, but I am unsure.I always used the reader and/or my phone to scan the Libre 2. People have varying opinions but my experience with the Libre as a whole (1&2) was that it was highly inaccurate no matter what I did. I ended up turning the alarms off due to it alerting me of the wrong blood sugar many times which was kind of the whole point of getting it to begin with and to always see my blood sugar and be notified of highs/lows. I don’t think using the correct monitor or a smartphone will make that much of a difference in my opinion.
I’ve never used Dexcom but I do know that it is very similar to the CGM I use now (Guardian). And with both of these you can enter a blood glucose reading to calibrate the sensor and keep it more within the correct range. I’ve personally had way less issues since I’ve been able to calibrate and couldn’t recommend a CGM that has that capability enough. If you can get it on the NHS I would say go for it.
You don’t have to use one if you don’t want to, I know plenty of diabetics who use a CGM but don’t use a pump as they prefer pens. It’s down to the individual what they like and whether it will suit them. I’ve been on a pump for around 8 years now and would never go back to pens. It’s definitely an adjustment at first as you are connected to something 24/7 much like with a CGM. But you are able to fine tune your insulin needs a lot better with a pump. There are lots of pumps out there so I mean I’d ask what is available at your hospital and do your research on each one before making a decision.Would CGM mean having a pump? Hospital have suggested I might use a pump, but I am unsure.
Mine went off 4 times one night saying it was below 4, I felt ok so did nothing checked again 10 mins later it was 6, each time, I have had that a few times now, plus no end of errors messages, mine is now giving the wrong time that I have tested,I've been using Libre 2 with an A5X reader (supplied by the hospital as my Motorola smartphone would not support the Freestyle app) since June 2022. Does anyone get suspect readings, particularly at nighttime? One of the the things I looked forward to was seeing my nighttime BG readings without having to wake up; however, the graph often shows significant dips which can be below 4, i.e hypo, then rising again without intervention. Someone suggested this may be because the sensor was on my left arm and I tend to sleep on my left side, so I have switched to putting the sensor on my right arm. All was going well until three nights ago when the low glucose alarm went off at 3am showing my BG as 2.9. I got up and five minutes later, it still read 2.9. As I had no hypo symptons, I used a test strip and lancet with my BG monitor and my BG read 9.0! I retested by pricking a different finger and this time the BG was 6.7. I tried scanning the sensor again and it came up with that annoying message saying sensor error and to rescan in 10 minutes, not what you want at 3:10am; however, after 10 minutes I scanned the sensor and it said 7.0.. I can't be having low glucose alarms in the night which wake my husband who has to wake me (his hearing is better than mine) so have taken to switching off the low-glucose alarms.
If I ring Abbott they say the A5X is not theirs. They have sent me a reader previously (I am now on my 2nd A5X reader) but it does not have the functionality of the A5X. Once you have started a sensor with one device, you cannot use another.
So do I switch from using the A5X to the Abbott reader or continue leaving off the low glucose alarm at night (and rely on hypo symptons to wake me if I have a hypo in the night, which is what used to happen before I had Lilbre2.
Or do I get a smartphone that supports the app?
Or try Dexcom, which is now also available on NHS?
That sounds like compression lows as I mentioned above.Mine went off 4 times one night saying it was below 4, I felt ok so did nothing checked again 10 mins later it was 6, each time, I have had that a few times now, plus no end of errors messages, mine is now giving the wrong time that I have tested,
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