I need advice..(libre 2 plus sensor)

[littlevoice359]

Personally, I used to find it quite difficult to apply the Dexcom patch until I bought myself one of those magnifying swivel mirrors. The swivel part broke last year, along with the normal-view side of the mirror, but I still use the magnifying mirror, tilted at an angle using the Dexcom sensor box. Without that I would find it impossible to see what I was doing. To make it even more interesting, I am left-handed and far from ambidextrous, so every second sensor application is especially tricky. Oh the joys of diabetes - the gift that keeps on giving...

 

[Lucyr]

To make it even more interesting, I am left-handed and far from ambidextrous, so every second sensor application is especially tricky

Surely that’s no different to right handed people doing every other sensor with their left hand so not really especially tricky?

I’m right handed but do them all with my left hand due to nerve damage in my right hand. You get used to it soon enough, it’s only really pressing a button not massively fiddly.

 

[Woodywoodpecker]

Just had my 2nd sensor in a row detatch itself as I was cleaning my bathroom i knocked it against the door

I'm having so much trouble right now with my libre sensor and how best to keep it on, I feel like I've tried everything... is it my positioning instead?

- frist patches i got where not just a patch (normal version) paper backing blocked the top of the sensor, ment to stop it sticking but caused it to not beable to breath

So I tried not just a patch air version because it dosnet have any paper just a non adhesive middle, but I keep having issues of it causing compression lows, the non adhesive part is a bit of a weird shape because its ment to fit a dexcome aswell, I dunno if that's the reason, so i end up having to sort of...pull the patch away from the sensor a bit to make it looser, which isn't ideal as it being loose kinda negates the point protecting the sensor from knocks ...and sometimes the material rips, and this one did alittle letting me glimpse inside, it let me see this time that it had come loose


I tried the type which are just a circle with a hole, but found them the worse of all...how to you get them around the sensor without them sticking to the sides??? The libre sensor i use doaent actuly have that much of the adhesive that sticks out of the side, I used it once and knew side stick to the sensor causing it to pull it to one side, and the other side didn't fully cover the small amount of adhesive on the other side so that started to come loose..


I was giving a hard cover i think from kovaq but its more of a very shallow dish that dosent cover my sensor at all, if i tried to put a patch over that it would push it down and cuase compression lows, so i ordered one recently thats a bit more s esor shaped, but it still doaent leave much room and im still worried about it pushing down on it to much.

I am at a loss and realy don't know what to do, I know my positioning of the sensor ain't great but don't have much flat surface to put it where they recommend, I'll ad a pic of my sensor placement.

Ant advice on what to do will help.....how do your patches not push down on the sensor like mine dose..as everyone else seams to use them fine

I use these patches and arm strap at work