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db89 said:
Straw poll as I'm curious on what the consensus is amongst other Libre users - how long do you insert a new sensor before starting it?

Are you of the camp following Abbott's official guidelines and starting straight away or do you allow a 'settling' period and if so how long for?
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When I first began using it I would start it straight away, at the moment because it runs out early evening, I put on the new one in the morning of the day the old one ends, so it's about ten or eleven hours before I start the new one.

That could change, but that's what I do at the moment.
 
db89 said:
Straw poll as I'm curious on what the consensus is amongst other Libre users - how long do you insert a new sensor before starting it?

Are you of the camp following Abbott's official guidelines and starting straight away or do you allow a 'settling' period and if so how long for?
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The evening before the old one expires, as I get the husband to put it on for me - painful shoulders mean I can’t comfortably reach to do it myself. It finishes late morning (after he’s left for the day), so that’s about 15 hours.
 
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Knikki said:
Have pressed and poked everything I can but no battery info :hilarious::rolleyes: will drop Scott-C an email as I have not seen him on here for a while.
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Hi, knikki, I'm using blucon with a September 2017 version of xdrip so it might have changed since then and might be different too for miaomiao, but here's a few things to try for battery level, see pics below for the buttons to look for.

I think I've seen later versions where the level displays all the time at top left just below the sensor age. On mines, it just pops up when level gets to 1%.

First option to try is going into Settings, then Less common settings, then scroll down to Extra Logging Settings, and tick the checkbox for Display Bridge Battery. I'm not convinced this is definitely the one as "Bridge" seems to refer to other types of transmitter, but no harm in trying it.

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Second option is Settings, then Alarms and Alerts, then Extra Alerts (xdrip+), then scroll down and switch the Collector battery alerts button on, and set the %age.

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Third option is go into System Status, and there's a field for Transmitter battery. As you can see from the screenshot, it's saying it's not available, but that's maybe because it's a year old version and they were still working on various bits and pieces at that stage.

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Yikes - just noticed from the version number on that page it's exactly a year old today! Looks like it's my cgm birthday today!
 
Cool, thanks @Scott-C I will give those setting ago later on.

Well started the day at 2.6 and ended the day at 1.8 :rolleyes:

Split dose for the pizza and things should return to some sort of Knikki normal :clown:
 
EllsKBells said:
One of them also didn't know that you aren't supposed to just chuck your used needles in the bin.

EDUCATION! Oh I do sound like a stuck record :p
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To be fair to him, in May this year was the first time in 52 years I have ever been offer a sharps bin, always broke the needle off or blunted it and in he ordinary bin it went.
 
db89 said:
Straw poll as I'm curious on what the consensus is amongst other Libre users - how long do you insert a new sensor before starting it?

Are you of the camp following Abbott's official guidelines and starting straight away or do you allow a 'settling' period and if so how long for?
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Since I have moved to the back of the arm, ala where Abotts say to stick it, I have found it is more accurate after a 24 hour 'warm up'.
 
A decent enough day bloods wise, a little drop to 3.7 late morning but I caught it in time, nice home cooked Thai for tea with a large portion of rice and 2u more insulin as I'm not losing any more weight :)
@db89 I insert the sensor and activate it straight away, so far it's not differed much from a finger prick. And regarding sharps, I've a mate who's a binman and he's no problem with me chucking clipped pen needles in the bin and the spikes go in a clipper, I've not been offered a sharps bin in 35 years as far as it goes...

Edit, I've just changed sensor tonight, I always swap arms and take a couple of days catching up on that fact constantly swiping the wrong arm :p
 
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kev-w said:
Edit, I've just changed sensor tonight, I always swap arms and take a couple of days catching up on that fact constantly swiping the wrong arm :p
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My wife laughs at me for that.

I start my new one as soon as it's on. They seem to work well from the start - it's towards the end of the two weeks things can start to read a bit low for me.
 
Mel dCP said:
That’s exactly what happened to me. I’d been crying my eyes out in the DSN’s office because I just didn’t know how to help myself. Just got told to pull myself together because I knew full well what the consequences would be. Two DKAs still didn’t kick me into doing it. Understanding the WHY you can’t do it is what makes the difference - whether it’s the sensory overstimulation of fingerpricking (as in my case), not wanting to seem different, weight loss (also me), fear of needles, not being able to do all the maths, constant carb counting, fear of hypos... I was, as you say, basically written off as non-compliant and became beyond caring. I developed a very fatalistic attitude. I’m not exaggerating when I say the Libre literally saved my bacon.
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A Chinese figure character for the verb listen consists of the following elements: Eyes, Ears, Heart and Undivided Attention. Somehow Health Provider training trains out most of these elements (with some notable exceptions). So I surmise that the training, part of which is by following the example of teachers, instructors and peers, is ****. But that is where things need to start to change.
 
Meh 2.4 :( so that was a bit of a crested porcupine, but I woke before I overheated, which is something at least, the young un's going to schoolon the bus as I ain't driving anywhere right now, quite annoyed I am as it's self inflicted by me blousing for supper, although the supper time bolus has been working.

I feel like I'm leaning to one side, which is odd and T1d can be a bit of a pain some days, but at least it's Friday.
 
Morning everyone,

Went a bit hypo round about midnight, again, which is a bit of a nuisance, but Lantus did that too, so I have a feeling it might be something about me, my circadian rhythms, or whatever.

Don't want to reduce the evening Levemir dose any more, as I'll end up to high if I do that, so I'll just ride out this period of lower blood sugars, it won't last for long.
 
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