Hi there just to thank everyone on their advice to keep spikes lower I have recently managed to get my appointment after 1and a half years and my readings were good my hba1 was 6 2 which the doctor was well pleased with he gave me advice on the spiking too. I have now been upgraded to the libre 2 sensor which is great as it has an alarm to say if glucose too high or low.
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nonethewiser
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Good result mate, libre 2 is great device, alarms is bonus& very useful to alert you of high low bg, I have signal loss alarm turned off as its damn annoying.
Lucyr
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If you switch off the signal loss alarm, you won’t know if it loses connection, and then won’t get any other alarms.
That is my understanding too.
When you get a loss of signal alarm you need to scan the sensor to get it to start alarming for highs and low, again.
If you turn off the loss of signal alarm, you may miss highs and/or lows.
On the other hand, it is annoying!
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Great news @Stupat - well done on your progress!
My experience with Libre 2 was that the signal loss didn’t happen very often at all, and was helpful rather than not.
The alarms were a huge help for me, and really useful in dodging dropping levels and rising levels before they got too out of hand.
nonethewiser
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Its annoying from experience, that's why its off on my phone.
Believe me you still get alarms, been in garden & phone has alarmed in house to alert of low bg, can also be in kitchen with phone in front room & still get alert of high low bg. Obviously talking about phone app here not reader.
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I agree, I got around 8 signal loss alarms yesterday because the reader was in my left hand trouser pocket. The sensor is on my right arm. I know for a fact I’m not opaque to Bluetooth signals- nobody is. And I have no internal metalwork.
If anyone can postulate a theory why that happens, I’d be grateful.
If anyone can postulate a theory why that happens, I’d be grateful.
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Well interestingly… before I used sensors I did read blog posts from CGM users who commented about the importance of allowing ‘line of sight’ between transmitter and receiver, so while I can’t explain it either (except that perhaps the signals aren’t transmitted very strongly?) it does really seem to help to try to keep as little body as possible between the two. I swap my pump from side to side to keep it beneath whichever arm I have my G6 on and it has never lost connection. My phone is always in the same pocket, and probably loses connection with the G6 briefly every few days when it’s diagonally opposite the sensor..
mikeyB
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I think I may have twigged the cause. I wear braces rather than use a belt- more comfortable in a wheelchair. These days they have metal clips that are quite substantial, and the clip is in direct line of sight between the sensor and the reader. I can’t test that theory, because my reader has died. (Always at a weekend, these things happen.) I’ll test it with my phone in that pocket.
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