Hi all, have been using the libre for about 8 months now, love it for all the usual reasons.
I've been inserting it a while before activating it to give a bit of time for the local damage to settle down, certainly sorts out some of the first day eccentricities, so my thanks to the various posters who figured that tactic out - it's helped a lot.
What I wanted to ask, though, is, are people finding better accuracy based on the time or conditions in which they activate a new sensor?
I know that Dexcom/Medtronic gadgets are best calibrated when the user is running stable.
Libre, of course, is factory calibrated but as with Dexcom that didn't seem to me to mean much if I was to go start switching it on if I wasn't stable at the time.
So, for my last three sensors, I've made a point of activating it when I wake up, while I'm still in bed (I get "foot on floor" rise big time) on the basis that after a night sleeping, no bolus or food to speak of, that's the time when blood and interstitial are likely to be closest. Might as well give that wee disc the best start in it's short life!
Anyway, so that was the theory, and it seems to work for me. These last three sensors have been impressively accurate, to the point where after checking the accuracy with my normal number of bg tests over a few days, I've had days with one or two tests, and for the first time trusted the little plastic f***er enough to eat/bolus from it (don't drive so there's no dvla issues).
So, rambled on a bit, but there is a question tucked in there: have you noticed any difference in accuracy if the sensor is activated just after waking up after a stable night?
I've been inserting it a while before activating it to give a bit of time for the local damage to settle down, certainly sorts out some of the first day eccentricities, so my thanks to the various posters who figured that tactic out - it's helped a lot.
What I wanted to ask, though, is, are people finding better accuracy based on the time or conditions in which they activate a new sensor?
I know that Dexcom/Medtronic gadgets are best calibrated when the user is running stable.
Libre, of course, is factory calibrated but as with Dexcom that didn't seem to me to mean much if I was to go start switching it on if I wasn't stable at the time.
So, for my last three sensors, I've made a point of activating it when I wake up, while I'm still in bed (I get "foot on floor" rise big time) on the basis that after a night sleeping, no bolus or food to speak of, that's the time when blood and interstitial are likely to be closest. Might as well give that wee disc the best start in it's short life!
Anyway, so that was the theory, and it seems to work for me. These last three sensors have been impressively accurate, to the point where after checking the accuracy with my normal number of bg tests over a few days, I've had days with one or two tests, and for the first time trusted the little plastic f***er enough to eat/bolus from it (don't drive so there's no dvla issues).
So, rambled on a bit, but there is a question tucked in there: have you noticed any difference in accuracy if the sensor is activated just after waking up after a stable night?