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Is new sensor day aweful for any one else

Woodywoodpecker said:
Try putting new sensor on the day before, but don’t scan till other one runs out. Ive not had one fall off, but did catch a couple on clothes that’s why I wear a patch round the sensor
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Ehh I'm not a soaker, for a few reasons I can get into if you want, in genral I can handle the 1 or 2 days of it being slightly off if its good most of the other other times, dosnet bother me much.
On the point of patches though, are you saying that you use a patch with a hole in it? I'm sensing that's the way to go, how easy is it to actuly get the patch over the sensor? I have quite shakey hands or some reason and I hope it dosent cause trouble.
 
Sara Grice said:
Ehh I'm not a soaker, for a few reasons I can get into if you want, in genral I can handle the 1 or 2 days of it being slightly off if its good most of the other other times, dosnet bother me much.
On the point of patches though, are you saying that you use a patch with a hole in it? I'm sensing that's the way to go, how easy is it to actuly get the patch over the sensor? I have quite shakey hands or some reason and I hope it dosent cause trouble.
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These are the ones I use, they are not bad to put on. Don’t know what you mean by soaker ?
 

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Woodywoodpecker said:
These are the ones I use, they are not bad to put on. Don’t know what you mean by soaker ?
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Oh sorry, the act of putting on a new sensor before you activate it (normally 24 hours before) to avoid the frist 24 hours of inaccurate readings is often called soaking the sensor. Should have thought not everyone calls it that, sorry
 
Sara Grice said:
Oh sorry, the act of putting on a new sensor before you activate it (normally 24 hours before) to avoid the frist 24 hours of inaccurate readings is often called soaking the sensor. Should have thought not everyone calls it that, sorry
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That’s ok. I found if I applied new sensor the same day as removing old one, it’s wasn’t as accurate and had few false lows during the night. But read on here about applying it the day before, so I do that now and it works for me. The patch has 2 separate bits to peel off, I peel first bit off then apply, then remove 2nd piece
 
Had quite a few libre 2 fail always because the needle had not entered the skin properly. Adhesion had not been a problem but I had to improvise. On the leaflet they recommend using an alcohol swab prior to installing the sensor. Neither my doctors or the chemist would supply these, I hit on a plan of using Isopropanol Rubbing Alcohol, applying a small quantity on a cotton pad, allowing it to evaporate, about ten minuted, then putting the sensor in place.
The fails I had I have partially cured as normally would assemble on the desk with may computer screens/keyboard and a large mouse pad. I realised this had enough give to cause some of the misalignment problems while placing the two sections together so moved to the worksurface in my kitchen to assemble them. Seems to work better, may just have been a bad batch of the sensors as well as user error.
 
JonC said:
Had quite a few libre 2 fail always because the needle had not entered the skin properly. Adhesion had not been a problem but I had to improvise. On the leaflet they recommend using an alcohol swab prior to installing the sensor. Neither my doctors or the chemist would supply these, I hit on a plan of using Isopropanol Rubbing Alcohol, applying a small quantity on a cotton pad, allowing it to evaporate, about ten minuted, then putting the sensor in place.
The fails I had I have partially cured as normally would assemble on the desk with may computer screens/keyboard and a large mouse pad. I realised this had enough give to cause some of the misalignment problems while placing the two sections together so moved to the worksurface in my kitchen to assemble them. Seems to work better, may just have been a bad batch of the sensors as well as user error.
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Yeah I feel like skin type has something to do with it, because I shower, shave, put on the alcohol whipes and make sure to press down on the applicator for about 30 seconds before removing, every thing your surpised to do, I had fall put after just 30 minutes. And then one hung on for about a day untill it fell out at work, since I stated using patches that hasn't happen but I still have then acting a bit weird sometimes. Like compression lows when laying down.

In terms of the aliment issue, I'm fairly sure that's what I have when I try to use my left hand to put the sensor on my right arm. So..I genraly stick to one.
But I know that's not ideal, maybe if I lose a bit of weight I can start switching
 
I use a Dexcom ONE+, always with an over-patch. But of the 13-or-so units I've had, three have malfunctioned...but all of them within the last 24 hours. They replaced two of them, free of charge. One other thing I do is place them on my inner arm, as it's the only place I can put them where they won't get squashed during sleep.

I realise you don't use Dexcom, but I can't imagine they'd be so different.
 
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