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<blockquote data-quote="Binary" data-source="post: 1733946" data-attributes="member: 244920"><p>For all those people who think the libre is widely unreliable because it doesn't match up with their blood meter I wonder how many have tested a drop of blood then squeezed out another drop and taken another reading or used a different meter and different test strip?</p><p></p><p>If you do you might decide your blood meters are pretty unreliable as well and then that becomes scary as you no longer know what to trust. If you use the libre you have to have a reasonable amount of faith in it. There will be times though when a libre sensor may not perform as it it is wise to test bloods from time to time if in doubt and in the first few days.</p><p></p><p>The longer you can leave the libre in before activitating it the better in my experience. Having waited 4 weeks for our last libre delivery and with my son having run out several days previous the libre was inserted and started up immediately. For a good 6 hours afterwards it was reading 2 - 3 below our blood testing and spent the majority of the time saying low whereas blood were generally between 4.5-6. By morning it was reading a figure and much more in line with blood readings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Binary, post: 1733946, member: 244920"] For all those people who think the libre is widely unreliable because it doesn't match up with their blood meter I wonder how many have tested a drop of blood then squeezed out another drop and taken another reading or used a different meter and different test strip? If you do you might decide your blood meters are pretty unreliable as well and then that becomes scary as you no longer know what to trust. If you use the libre you have to have a reasonable amount of faith in it. There will be times though when a libre sensor may not perform as it it is wise to test bloods from time to time if in doubt and in the first few days. The longer you can leave the libre in before activitating it the better in my experience. Having waited 4 weeks for our last libre delivery and with my son having run out several days previous the libre was inserted and started up immediately. For a good 6 hours afterwards it was reading 2 - 3 below our blood testing and spent the majority of the time saying low whereas blood were generally between 4.5-6. By morning it was reading a figure and much more in line with blood readings. [/QUOTE]
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