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BarbaraG

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Non-insulin injectable medication (incretin mimetics)
My first sensor expires approx 11.30 tomorrow. I'm going to attach the new sensor tonight so it's got a while to settle.

But do I start it 1030, so it's ready to take over at 11.30. Or, once I've started it, will the reader stop listening to the old Sensor anyway, so there's a missing hour no matter what?
 
I've no idea. I don't wear mine consecutively. I'd just wait till your old one expires, then activate the new one. You'll only lose an hour .
 
Hi @BarbaraG
Yes, you will miss minimum of 1 hour because, as you say, if you activate a new sensor, your 'old' sensor won't be read any longer. The reader will only work with one sensor.

So I suggest you wait until your current sensor ends and then activate your new one. If you also use Glimp (I think it's called, via Android phone

Certainly, I like to apply a new sensor around 24 hrs prior to needing to activate it as I feel I get better accuracy this way.
 
No matter what you do... the new sensor needs an hour to start up...
 
Yup, there's always an hour-shaped gap in the magic graph. Irritating but unavoidable!

 
Thanks all. New sensor applied last night and is siting comfortably. Most annoying thing is that when I scan the old one it tells me how many hours left before it gives me the reading.
 
BarbaraG said:
Thanks all. New sensor applied last night and is siting comfortably. Most annoying thing is that when I scan the old one it tells me how many hours left before it gives me the reading.
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Yeah. drives me mad too.
Ends up beeping and stuff, and requires multiple scans, because the first one is blocked by the countdown screen.
Very irritating.
They should have an option to turn the reminder off.
 
I have a list of requests for improvements - which I think they should be able to do in firmware. That can be one. Another would be to enable you to scale the Y axis on the graph screens. That way you can actually see change within a range more relevant to you.

Do a lot of people have BG's up to 21, I wonder?
 
BarbaraG said:
Do a lot of people have BG's up to 21, I wonder?
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All the promotional photos for the (supposedly) upcoming www.sugarbeat.com show the poor guy sitting at 21.5 pretty much all the time!

You'd have thought the PR guys would have maybe thought about the subliminal messaging: "yes, you too can have lousy control with our cgm!"



Y axis goes up to 40!
 
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Might be mg/dl, in which case they're low all the time....
 
I think one of the reasons I'm so obsessed with only ever being 5.8mmol/l is because that's always the number shown in all the adverts for meters........!

Advertising - influential? Too right it is!

 
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