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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2254209" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>how much money are you willing to throw at this?</p><p></p><p>My view, based on personal experience of RH, and quite a bit of testing, first with a glucometer, and later with a Abbott Libre, is that testing with the glucometer is of limited value, while the Libre is much more use.</p><p></p><p>My hypos (thankfully v rare nowadays) hit hard and fast, and my bg rises very rapidly afterwards.</p><p></p><p>When using a glucometer I used to feel rough, get my brain in gear enough to work out it was a hypo, get it together to test, then scratch my head because the reading was 4.7mmol/l or something.</p><p>Which obviously wasn’t a hypo - yet I felt as though I had been run over by a truck.</p><p></p><p>when using the Libre, the whole story was revealed in a dramatic graph.</p><p>bg dropping sharply, to something like the 2s or below (Libre stops measuring if you go low enough), then a sudden change in graph direction (think a V not a U shape). Thats the point where the horrible hypo symptoms start to arrive. <strong><em>After</em></strong> the lowest reading. Then the bg rises sharply, as my body scrambles stress hormones to release stored glycogen from the liver, which gets glucose into the blood... and <em><strong>that</strong></em> is the point I would have usually get it together to test and see a reading in the 4s. Long <strong><em>after</em></strong> the actual hypo hit its low point and was busy rising again.</p><p></p><p>Lots of people take the view that ‘it isn’t a hypo unless you can <em><strong>prove</strong></em> it’ using a glucometer.</p><p></p><p>I take the view that I had hypos for 30 years before I knew that glucometers existed. </p><p>Then glucometers were quite unhelpful in ‘proving’ that my hypos were ‘real’. </p><p>Then I got a Libre, and Lo and Behold! </p><p>I have proof that I wasn’t lying all my life.</p><p>Makes me larff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2254209, member: 41816"] how much money are you willing to throw at this? My view, based on personal experience of RH, and quite a bit of testing, first with a glucometer, and later with a Abbott Libre, is that testing with the glucometer is of limited value, while the Libre is much more use. My hypos (thankfully v rare nowadays) hit hard and fast, and my bg rises very rapidly afterwards. When using a glucometer I used to feel rough, get my brain in gear enough to work out it was a hypo, get it together to test, then scratch my head because the reading was 4.7mmol/l or something. Which obviously wasn’t a hypo - yet I felt as though I had been run over by a truck. when using the Libre, the whole story was revealed in a dramatic graph. bg dropping sharply, to something like the 2s or below (Libre stops measuring if you go low enough), then a sudden change in graph direction (think a V not a U shape). Thats the point where the horrible hypo symptoms start to arrive. [B][I]After[/I][/B] the lowest reading. Then the bg rises sharply, as my body scrambles stress hormones to release stored glycogen from the liver, which gets glucose into the blood... and [I][B]that[/B][/I] is the point I would have usually get it together to test and see a reading in the 4s. Long [B][I]after[/I][/B] the actual hypo hit its low point and was busy rising again. Lots of people take the view that ‘it isn’t a hypo unless you can [I][B]prove[/B][/I] it’ using a glucometer. I take the view that I had hypos for 30 years before I knew that glucometers existed. Then glucometers were quite unhelpful in ‘proving’ that my hypos were ‘real’. Then I got a Libre, and Lo and Behold! I have proof that I wasn’t lying all my life. Makes me larff. [/QUOTE]
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