Nightime lows

[Jaylee]

It's a lot of guesswork isn't it. But you have to keep trying. Every day is different. I just posted how I only had 2 hypos a month last week, then I had 4 bad days in a row this week due to not cutting back enough when I knew better. I'm better on a Dexcom, which is silly accurate. The Libre was good for trends, but I often found myself with a hypo and it still was reading 6 (which is in the range of its accuracy.)

Hi,

There was to my mind a bit of lag using the first Libre.

It's funny, when I first switched & started the L2 set up. The low alarm would beep & I'd think "get out of town. I don't feel hypo." Then hit snooze. 5/10 minutes later.. I feel it. (Early sign, eye vision flicker.) Check with the meter & it concurs.
Calibrated correctly, it can give me this advanced warning to treat which minimises the impact & duration of the lows for me.

 

[StewM]

Hi,

There was to my mind a bit of lag using the first Libre.

It's funny, when I first switched & started the L2 set up. The low alarm would beep & I'd think "get out of town. I don't feel hypo." Then hit snooze. 5/10 minutes later.. I feel it. (Early sign, eye vision flicker.) Check with the meter & it concurs.
Calibrated correctly, it can give me this advanced warning to treat which minimises the impact & duration of the lows for me.

Yeah, I've had to train myself to be very diligent about when the Libre thinks I'm going Low. It's not right 100% of the time, but it's right enough of the time to say "I can't ignore it, regardless of how I feel."

 

[ert]

Hi,

There was to my mind a bit of lag using the first Libre.

It's funny, when I first switched & started the L2 set up. The low alarm would beep & I'd think "get out of town. I don't feel hypo." Then hit snooze. 5/10 minutes later.. I feel it. (Early sign, eye vision flicker.) Check with the meter & it concurs.
Calibrated correctly, it can give me this advanced warning to treat which minimises the impact & duration of the lows for me.

The Libre does catch lows but it misses them also or gives false lows that you always need to check, multiple times in the night (without lying on it.) I dispaired and switched to Dexcom which has been brilliant.

 

[Zinadane]

The Libre does catch lows but it misses them also or gives false lows that you always need to check, multiple times in the night (without lying on it.) I dispaired and switched to Dexcom which has been brilliant.

Well this probably also then depends which app your using to process the data from your patch.
I switched to xdrip a few weeks backs. Which certainly behaves differently to the libre app on both rising and falling levels.
As far as I know xdrip is the one to use?

 

[Hopeful34]

Well this probably also then depends which app your using to process the data from your patch.
I switched to xdrip a few weeks backs. Which certainly behaves differently to the libre app on both rising and falling levels.
As far as I know xdrip is the one to use?

I found xdrip great with libre1, but it's not doing well with some libre2 sensors. Seems a bit hit and miss. Like ert I'm getting lots of false lows with Libre reader during the night, where I'm awake and definitely not lying on the sensor. Night before last neither alarmed and I woke to 22.5 blood sugar after cannula failed on my pump. Last night I was around 5.5 to 6 on the Libre reader, but hypo all night on xdrip. Getting a bit fed up with it all to be honest.

 

[ert]

Well this probably also then depends which app your using to process the data from your patch.
I switched to xdrip a few weeks backs. Which certainly behaves differently to the libre app on both rising and falling levels.
As far as I know xdrip is the one to use?

I've always used x-drip.

 

[Jaylee]

Well this probably also then depends which app your using to process the data from your patch.
I switched to xdrip a few weeks backs. Which certainly behaves differently to the libre app on both rising and falling levels.
As far as I know xdrip is the one to use?

I use a stripped down version of Xdrip on a standalone watch with a BT bridge.? It can't chop sense into the L2 algorithm otherwise?
I've also used the L2 BT for an app called Diabox. & recently with a phone upgrade changed back to XDrip. Both apps pre-empt along with my watch a low.. & for me have been pretty bang on.. I don't leave home without my meter either. (Force of habit.)
From what I understand, the new L2 algorithm predicts where you are "now" as opposed to the lag they used to have..?
The only thing is on a rise from a low. (Like the L1 on a sub 3.5.) can still be laggy to register. (A good half hour sometimes after how I feel & the meter concuring.) Hence why I carry my meter. Especially if I have to drive..