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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snapsy" data-source="post: 1273739" data-attributes="member: 265172">[USER=47983]@therower[/USER] I bought a Libre starter pack in February and have used the system continuously since.I could not do without it now.It's addictive.It's amazing.I use it to monitor my general pattern (I'm always looking on that line on the reader to see if there are any spikes I can work on ironing out), and of course I still test as well. But I've gone from 12-14 blood tests a day to 4-6, as I now do all my 'reassurance testing' on the Libre.And amazingly, although the readings do vary in their accuracy, it had predicted my latest HbA1c absolutely SPOT ON when I downloaded the info for my annual review.So far I have had no problems with it at all. I will say though that I have never applied a sensor myself as I am not confident that I could reliably get it in the right spot (centre of midddle of back of arm), but that is probably just me!I start my new sensor every two weeks on a Sunday morning, having had it applied on the Friday evening. There are some who say that applying it 24-48 hours in advance of activation gives better accuracy because the resulting owwwwwy bit of the arm has a chance to calm down. So that's what I've always done, although I haven't made a comparison myself with different timings of application - I've done it 36 hours ahead of activation right from the start.The downside of having one one each arm for that period does lead to the odd question from people, but pfffff, no matter!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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