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Lainie71

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
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The term "big boned" lol repeatedly told this growing up!
As you may be well aware I have a very much "love hate" relationship with my Libre. Put sensor on today, yet again I am a bleeder but it is what it is. I had dinner finger stab before 5.8. Had dinner stabbed 2hrs later 7.1 waited 15 mins for lag with Libre and it came up with 4.7 I have only been a 4.7 once early on in my type 2. Will wait and see if this is a blip Incidentally I put the sensor on the back of my right arm this time, time before top of left arm. I also used a barrier wipe forget the name as I got a wee bit sore from the glue last time.
 
I have not used a Libre myself, but I think there is a bedding in period following application where the Libre is not reliable ( possibly for a day or two after insertion)
 
Hi @Lainie71 you can't take a single reading from the Libre as gospel, if you keep testing at regular intervals, check back in the Logbook and you may well see that the scan 'dot' is nowhere near the actual levels when the anticipated level is replaced by the real level (in simple laymen's terms ).

There is only a couple of minutes 'lag' between a finger prick test and what you would get on a Libre scan, the 15 minutes is the adjustment time of the Libre on itself.
Here's a bad day on the Libre - but the actual graph shows the adjusted actual levels:



Hope this makes sense. If the graph and dots match but the glucose meter values all disagree, give Abbott a call and they will work out if its faulty.
 
Right I will have another look. Just don't seem to have any luck with Libre. It said 8.8 this morning and kept rising!
 
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