pawprint91
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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
- Pronouns
- She/Her
So yesterday after a face to face group appointment at the hospital, I was presented with my first ever Libre sensor (Libre 2) - so exciting! Got home and got it on yesterday evening. Cleaned area with alcohol and actually got my dad (retired nurse) to put it on for me to make sure it was done right (didn't trust myself with the first one!). First reading seemed good - 6.2 (didn't check this against finger prick). However, within an hour my low alarm was going off, telling me I was 3.4 and dropping. Finger pricked and was actually 4.8. Ended up turning the alarms off as it was trying to tell me I was 3.0 when I was actually 6.1 following a biscuit before a delayed dinner. Tried to resist obsessively scannning ... before bed I was a 7.1 on a fingerprick, 6.2 on libre. This is more like it, I thought. Woke up this morning to several notifications coming in overnight saying that I had lost signal on the sensor. Rescanned this morning, 6.3. Fingerprick - 8.1?! after breakfast it told me I was 10.1. This is good again, I thought, as it's clearly responding to something and having a rise. Fingerpricked again and I was 12 - so whilst it rose by the correct ratio (+4 mmol), it is so out of whack I am wondering if it's worth it. Does anybody have any advice/tips? Could the heat be affecting it and should I just let it settle for the full 24 hours before complaining that it's not working properly? I understand there will be some inaccuracy and a lag but this just seems to far out to actually be of any use - considering contacting Abbott today.