Non-invasive Blood Glucose Sugar Monitoring Watch

peterjdickinson said:

Yes, it does seem that way. A libre is on order! Hopefully 2 weeks of data will be of value

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Don’t hesitate to ask questions when the Libre arrives… I use a watch, but the Libre sends data in mmol.
The faux “Star Trek”or “Blake’s seven” tech is nowhere it should be right now with the “non invasive.”

I’m confident a watch lawyer isn’t coming after me on this one… Right now the “non evasive market” is smoke & mirrors… Aimed at “bio hackers” & bewildering diabetics….

peterjdickinson said:

Yes, it does seem that way. A libre is on order! Hopefully 2 weeks of data will be of value

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Please make sure you have read up on the limitations of CGMs.
They are very useful pieces of kit if you understand the limitations. They are incredibly frustrating waste of effort if you expect them to read exactly the same as finger pricks all the time.

My comment meant, even if you're in remission, you are still diabetic. So if the Libre trial was restricted to diabetics only, you would still be eligible.

ajbod said:

My comment meant, even if you're in remission, you are still diabetic. So if the Libre trial was restricted to diabetics only, you would still be eligible.

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I happen to know the Libre trial is open to anyone interested… I got turned down as a T1 only because I was self funding the Libre 2 at the time..(not eligible for trial. I was hoping for a freebie.)
These sensors get registered via the app & the librelink account.

The cynic in me suggests none of this tech is done for the “love of humanity.”

But the libre is still a better bet than “X-ray specs..”

peterjdickinson said:

Yes, but I would like to delay taking the meds for as long as possible

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There are people here who have been in remission for many years. As far as I can gather, meds are not inevitable.

And I went from being given insulin ( while in hospital for something else, and not even told) to nothing but diet, via a very short stint of Metformin. So sometimes it can be done.

I went out of my way to purchase and test these things because I was convinced that they would be rubbish. Too long, don't want to read?

They are utter rubbish and a waste of money. Just don't bother, despite what the viral marketing tells you.

If you want to read about it, have a look here: https://www.diabettech.com/tag/non-invasive-continuous-glucose-monitoring/

This popped up on my YouTube Recommended list this morning so I am resurrecting this thread, as the video is quite scary - very scary.

It really is a failure of regulation that these devices are still advertised and sold when they simply do not work.

For non diabetics whose BG stays within a tight range, of course a random value from within that range won't be very far off the true one, but it appears there's no actual correlation at all (which makes sense, because the claimed technology doesn't exist yet and nobody has ever demonstrated such a device working in real tests).

For anyone with more variable BG for whom such a device would be useful if it worked, paying attention to these faked values could be seriously harmful. For instance, someone with undiagnosed T2 could delay diagnosis and treatment because of the false reassurance from the watch that their sugars were normal.
For someone on insulin it would be disastrous.