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sufc22uk

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I am 6 months into wearing a monitor and changed my diet following The Glucose Goddess method, and have seen by measure moving from diabetic to low end pre diabetic.
My A12 has moved from 6.4 to 5.8 over 90 days.. so I’m happy or was! I’m now having low glucose events as seen on pic and I’m now worried about what I do next!
 
Hi @sufc22uk ,
What meds are you on?
If you're on diabetic meds to lower BG levels, you would be advised to consult your doctor. As those meds could b be the cause of your hypo levels.
I have noticed that your range is in normal levels.
As a benchmark, non T1 hypo levels are 3.5mmols. But some get symptoms higher and some don't get symptoms at all in the threes.
 
KennyA said:
Hi and welcome. Have you confirmed these figures with a fingerprick reading? I have had CGMs read as much as 2 mmol/l out when checked via blood.
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I have had sensors give readings only some form of alien to could achieve, although............. :angelic:

On a more serious note, when I have reported those to Abbott, if I have validated a proportion of the readings with finger pricks, they have been happen to replace the sensors.

Like anything manmade, whilst unfortunate, and not hugely often these days, they can go wrong.
 
When I first started using the Libre 6 months ago I had a similar graph to you perhaps not so bad but on some days it was registering up to 7 hypo events and I will assume it may have been like that for years previously without me even realising , I remedied this by cutting my Basel insulin from 17 units to 15 units and now I am going weeks without a hypo event and usually my time in range is about 70 _ 80 % so maybe just a little tweaking might work for you , if my Libre says it is in the high 3s a finger prick usually says low 4s so not to far out .
 
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