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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mrs HJG" data-source="post: 2552802" data-attributes="member: 552087">I frequently get 'hypos at night' according to my Libre, but I am not on insulin and so have switched off the alarms as they are irrelevant to me.  I was told at my Libre check up with the NHS nurse last week that they now deem the Libre more accurate than finger pricking and to literally only draw blood if you are feeling a lot different to the Libre result, but again no insulin, so I shouldn't bother. (I think that's wrong, as she implied we all might have just just put our fingers on a jam donut and not washed our hands before testing, ever<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head    :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" />)I have learnt not to keep double checking though, more likely to scan again in 20 mins when the knee-jerk up/down arrow has corrected itself, but I 'know' that some sensors are more accurate than others; early on I ripped off one after a few days when I never went above 5 even after breakfast which is always my 'worst' time of day, and another after 2 days when it kept swinging from 10+ to <5 like a seismograph and finger pricking both times was giving the results I expected.  Having only been on Libre since June, I reckon its a learning curve but you quickly recognise when to take the scans with a pinch of salt, or when to get on to Abbott to replace.It's annoying getting a dodgy sensor as it does skew the TIR, but as long as you know when things were really higher/lower it all seems to even out in the end, well for me it does.</blockquote>

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