Simplera bleeder!

[everydayupsanddowns]

A bleeder is a reader… so they used to say. That is, sensors that bled on insertion often ended up being extra accurate. Hmmmmm.

Well I think I must have nicked something with the insertion of this sensor, as quite a bit of blood needed mopping from out of the middle hole



When it had finished start up, it was pottering along mid 5s, which would be quite common for me on the MM780.

Except when I just casually checked to see whether the sensor was working OK it read 11.6 by fingerstick. I double checked and got 12.

First calibration was rejected. After 15 mins fingerstick was 14.something. Just look at the leap in that graph!

I’ll wait to see what happens tomorrow and if results / sensor seem to settle.

 

[SB2015]

Are you in manual mode Mike. I have had one like that work straight away but if it is already playing up I would be tempted to replace it now. I know it is not ideal before bed but …

 

[Satan’s little helper]

I’ve had it with the odd Libre. However, it’s a few hours before fitting it & swapping from the old. In my experience. That’s a bit of a jump with nothing in-between if no fast acting carbs have been involved (over treated hypo.) to throw it stupid? Extra to add. I find my fingerprick around 20 minutes behind interstitial reading.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

No still in auto mode @SB2015

Seems to have settled through the evening. I’ll see what tomorrow brings 🙂

 

[SB2015]

Hope it settled and behaved well overnight @everydayupsanddowns

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hope it settled and behaved well overnight @everydayupsanddowns

It was pretty much bang on-track last night. Haven’t checked so far this morning. I’ll need to wait until my breakfast / pre-bolus wobbles have settled before checking again

 

[SB2015]

It was pretty much bang on-track last night. Haven’t checked so far this morning. I’ll need to wait until my breakfast / pre-bolus wobbles have settled before checking again

So bleeders continue to be readers! Weird that it did that leap at the start.

One thing I miss on the Simplera is the ability to put it in and let it settle before activating it. I kind of do that and delay entering BG if things are all over the place at the end of the warm up, although now if the sensors are put in without a gap it does not even ask for the callibration.

I really like seeing the morning graph when there has been a wobble early evening, and then Smartguard does its thing overnight and brings us back in target.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Yep on track it seems @SB2015

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

One thing I miss on the Simplera is the ability to put it in and let it settle before activating it. I kind of do that and delay entering BG if things are all over the place at the end of the warm up, although now if the sensors are put in without a gap it does not even ask for the callibration.

‘Off label’ I’ve been told if you put a Simplera in during the last 2hrs of the last one you can shorten the ‘warm-up’ gap.

I’ve done it a couple of times, but more recently keep forgetting.

You just insert but don’t pair it until the last one is about to / has expired. You need to keep the inserter with you, as it will ask for the 6 digit code rather than pre-populating though.

 

[trophywench]

News item this morning, King announcing he had cancer made a random man decide to get some strange marks on his chest skin, checked out. Ooo-er, yes he had skin cancer. Operated on at the Royal Marsden and got rid of it.

Proper robotic micro surgery - and this was what drew my attention - quote from oncology surgeon - "With it, we can now rejoin blood vessels less than half a millimetre in diameter."

I mention it because although we all know the skin has thread veins (hence Mikes 'bleeder') - isn't the fact that such teeny tiny vessels can now be repaired - just stunning? Well - I think it is, anyway!

There again we collectively already knew that the Royal Marsden really are cancer experts, and if we really need their expertise we can get referred to them from anywhere. (well, in England, anyway, not sure if that applies to the whole of the UK)