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Libre Sensor

I am very relieved to read all of your posts! I've been using the Libre for almost a year. I love the convenience and I thought it was helping my sugars - until I did my first A1c after going on the Libre - it was the highest it has been in 15 years!!!!! I usually average 6.5, and after Libre it was 7.0. So I started doing blood pricks to double-check readings, and I've found it can be very very inaccurate. Sometimes lower, sometimes higher, and sometimes spot-on. But its inconsistent.

I'm really curious about the benefits of the Miaomiao???? Can anyone who is using it please share their experience? Is it comfortable to wear? (not too bulky?) Easy to use, even if you're not such a techie? Does it really improve accuracy a lot? Would you recommend?
 
@escturtle yep got the miaomiao dont even know its on the libre nice flat profile.

What it does is blutooth the sensor readings to your phone. With spike (iphone) or xdrip or glimp (android) you can put corrections in to get a more reliable reading.


With glimp just turn on blutooth on phone and in glimp it will connect dead easy.
Xdrip just set it for libre and connect to it.

Spike guess its the same as xdrip.

In my eyes glimp is better for mdi. Pump id look at xdrip with one insulin profile.

Hope that helps.
 

The MM is amazing. The Libre has nearly always been spot on with me (very lucky). I use the MM with Xdrip and can calibrate it so it is closer to finger prick readings. I will happily bolus from it. Helped me out with my basal setting as well.
 
I am utterly dismayed with the libre. It keeps showing me as HYPO over night but I knew that was not happening. My nurse used my dawn phenomenon results as a show of rebounds and refused to work with me on any other aspect of my diabetes until I changed basals I knew worked overnight. I refused. When I set alarms and got up every hour, every night, for a week and tested against the libre all the hypos were 4 or above on my meter. Not hypo to my body. And in 18 months only one sensor has made it the full time period is meant to. The arrows are useful and I used to love the graphs but given how I now know how inaccurate they are with highs and lows I don't feel like I can trust a thing.
 
@endocrinegremlin have you tried placing your Libre somewhere different?
Many people have complained about Libre reported lows at night due to pressure on the sensor.
 
helensaramay said:
@endocrinegremlin have you tried placing your Libre somewhere different?
Many people have complained about Libre reported lows at night due to pressure on the sensor.
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Yes, I have tried up near my shoulder, front, back, nearer the elbow joint, all but in my darn armpit. Near muscle, in flab. All of it. My body rejects canulas on my pump very early too. I think it is just like 'you....don't live here'. But. It is something I dreamed of as a little girl and I so want it to work so I keep trying.
 
helensaramay said:
@endocrinegremlin have you tried placing your Libre somewhere different?
Many people have complained about Libre reported lows at night due to pressure on the sensor.
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Yeah, if I end up sleeping on the Libre arm, I get all sorts of funny data. @helensaramay , do you know which other body parts tend to work more successfully? I'm thinking about trying different spots, but also for my cousin who's T1 and doesn't want to use Libre because she doesn't want it being visible.
 
Some people try it on their chest. It is not "approved" to go there but I think they get good readings.
@Mel dCP I think you are one of the creative Libre placers?
 
borderter said:
Use my thigh as easier to sleep with
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Do you find it accurate? Most things I have read said anything but arms was not on point enough
 
endocrinegremlin said:
Do you find it accurate? Most things I have read said anything but arms was not on point enough
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I saw someone on holiday last year who had theirs on their low back (love handle) unfortunately didn’t get a chance to speak to them then but different locations must work??
 
helensaramay said:
Some people try it on their chest. It is not "approved" to go there but I think they get good readings.
@Mel dCP I think you are one of the creative Libre placers?
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Yep, I wear mine on my chest, just at the top of the boobage. It’s just as close to blood readingsthere, incalibrate every morning with the MiaoMiao.
 
Did you try the steel cannulas with the pump?
 
borderter said:
Find better accuracy on thigh so dont tell abbott but will go on using this area LOL
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Have you tried other areas, I don’t really have a problem with the back of my arm but notice that my readings only 5mins a part can change so much. What made you try your thigh??
 

I find it invaluable when like you say, it shows the direction of my BS - it saves me over-eating when correcting a hypo for a start. I just wish I could afford it! I still have the reader but am not able to keep buying the sensors, Looking at the guidelines for funding it seems to prioritise pregnant women and children - both of which I agree do need support but I am 58 and losing some awareness of going low unless I test, so I end up with extremely painful fingers
 

Bit late replying but just wanted to say two things

1) I’m a teacher and you shouldn’t worry about driving the teacher mad. There should be a trained TA whose responsibility this is anyway. Any government policies or bad behaviour will be driving him mad, not this

2) I’m on enlite sensors with Medtronic and very, very rarely (as an adult with normal body fat) have a cgm bleed but I use my torso.

I would hope that a six year old should receive funding for pump and cgm.
 
I used to use Libre sensors, they were always off. But if they were off by more than 25 points I would call Libre (where they have to be 25-30% off or to Walgreens who never questioned it.) I also would return them if they were up one time but down the next time because then it was too hard to figure out dosing.

But I would test the first day a few times after a 2 hour wait and I would overlap sensors by about 8 hours ( I had 2 readers) this allowed me to get an idea of the difference in reading. Which usually was consistently off by the same amount. And then I would check about half way through to make sure it was behaving or obviously I would check if I thought something was wrong.

While I'll do finger sticking if I need to 10 times a day, I loved to leave most of it behind. My A1C is 6.4 and has been for a while but I am on an insulin pump and CGM.
 
Hi. I've used to get very low readings in Libre compared to finger blood. So it showed me beyond my low limit almost all the time. I'm in Brasil and use mg/dl. It showed 30 to 25 points of difference even when the arrow in libre was horizontal. For example my finger showed 90mg/dl (totally normal) and Libre showed 60mg/dl (hipo). I even quited using Libre for a time.
About six months ago I read somewhere in the Internet that to improve readings you must be VERY WELL hidrated. I put an app in my phone to help me control the total amount of water I take every day (I have to drink around 2,6 lt to stay hidrated).
All of the sudden my Libre is very very close to my finger measures. And it has been wonderful!!! Now I even bolus sometimes based on the Libre alone (when the arrow is horizontal).
I would recommend that you control the water intake for some days and see if Libre improves.
For me it has solved the problem, but if I have a day that I'm not drinking enough water, diet coke doesn't count :-( Libre readings get low again...
Hope it helps!
Liliana
 
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