Opinion (honest) on glucose sensors

Sherpa41 said:
@Sherpa41 said:

@UviIt is in the front, in the center a little inward, when I put my hand in my front pocket of the pants I play it and I think it is a coin.

Of course, I always cover it with kinesiological tape so that when I remove my pants I don't start it unintentionally.

The one in the photo has put it in a place perhaps safer but more sensitive, I always put it in the area that I have marked in blue

Go

I alternate, always in that marked blue area.

Sandman said:
@Sandman said:

To those who say that the sensor measures you just like the glucometer, what glucometer are you using?If it is Abbott's, keep in mind that it also measures.These months I have been comparing it with other brands and brand 20-30 than the others.

To calibrate Diabox I add minimum 20 to what comes out and, even so, in the last review in the endocrine I had a curious lag between blood test and what Diabox estimated me.I think I remember that Diabox 5.7% and analysis 6.2%.

So neither does it feel much of that glucometer.

PD: I had the One Touch Verio for 3 years (until they stopped prescribing the strips in the S.S.) and that one that stuck the values ​​with the analysis I did during that time.

Reader: 146;Contour Next: 147;Freestyle sensor 3 plus: 156

I am quite satisfied with these values ​​taking into account that the sensor does not have not been working for 24 hours

In case my experience serves:

I've been using Freestyle since 2016

I put the sensor on the side of the buttock

In the last year I only failed 1 sensor

Use xDrip4ios, but now they have closed the beta and I have passed to Zukka

I make about 5 capillary measurements a year in exceptional circumstances, only.

@isabelbota, when you talk about the new sensors, do you mean free 2 plus?

All the best.

A month and a half ago, fed up with mistakes and scares, I have decided to take a vacation and "return to the finger."My endocrine has offered me a new reader (it is already the fourth in 5 years), just in case.Apart from scares, type hypoglycemia that were not such (the first one swollen in spoonfuls, until the mind told me: you have no symptoms, get out of my finger, and effectively raised me to 365, not the 39 of the meter told me, Grrrrrr. On another occasion, I had a wild hypo (29), and the "apparatus" did not let me know.Night, I had not yet dinner because I had a calorazo and a closed stomach.A couple of tablespoons and I began to feel better.

Ah, and this without counting the times that the sensors have not worked for me (by clicking on the arm the meter tells you that in 60 minutes it will be operational; with several of them, about 5 or 6, they did not arrive at the time, they marked about ten minutes but no more).A Rollazo.It is a pity because the idea is very good, pity that of so many mistakes.

Has it happened to you?

From the change to plus, the sensors measure less than they should.I've been like that.

I do not use another application, what I do is lower the alarms by low and high glucose and thus compensate a little.

@Carmen K.If it happened to me, and at that moment I take it away and put another one.I make it clear.

Now they fail quite less, but before any questions, capillary to sing.

Not everyone is doing well, why not even the endocrine know and Abbott will not say it.

Ruthbia said:
@Ruthbia said:

@Carmen K.If it happened to me, and at that moment I take it away and put another one.I make it clear.

Now they fail quite less, but before any questions, capillary to sing.

Not everyone is doing well, why not even the endocrine know and Abbott will not say it.

@Luvi in ​​Madrid give us strips every 3 months, it is mandatory for you to give them, ask them.

Of course, they no longer use Abbott laboratories, Onetouch has given me.

Ruthbia said:
@Ruthbia said:

@UviIn Madrid they give us throw every 3 months, it is mandatory that they give them, ask them.

Of course, they no longer use Abbott laboratories, Onetouch has given me.

I lived at me (I live in Andalusia) they were taken about two years ago.

I have asked them for several times for my Onetouch meter, but they tell me not to prescribe them because I already have the sensor and it already brings their strips, 50 for 4 months.

You have to fuck.

@Luvi is published in the Community of Madrid, a box of 50 strips every 3 months.

I went to claim sensors to endocrinology and explained it to me:

- 6 sensors and the third week of the month are distributed.

- 50 strips is glucose every 3 months.

My reference center at the Foundation but I will change to "free choice" to be able to go to any community hospital.He catches me closer on October 12.

Ruthbia said:
@Ruthbia said:

@Carmen K.If it happened to me, and at that moment I take it away and put another one.I make it clear.

Now they fail quite less, but before any questions, capillary to sing.

Not everyone is doing well, why not even the endocrine know and Abbott will not say it.

Carmen K. said:
@Carmen K. said:

Ruthbia said:
Ruthbiasaid:
@Ruthbiasaid:

@CarmenK.If it happened to me, and at that moment I take it away and put another one.I make it clear.

Now they fail quite less, but before any questions, capillary to sing.

Not everyone is doing well, why not even the endocrine know and Abbott will not say it.

That's right, the laboratory, in this case Abbott, do not say Pío.What a feeling of "Indian bunny".It is known that there is a lot of failures.Failures that can cost life.No one is responsible.

Hello, it is indisputable that they have brought a revolution.

However, resulting in what many say, I wanted to add:

-In people who blindly trust what the CGM indicates is high risk: imprecision error in trend and temporary gap.

-I think it would be important from health and communities to influence the essential matter that one when he sees the levels sees his recent glycemic past, 20 or 15 minutes ago but not now as it is with the capillary.

-Saide that being blindly with your approximate value of reading the trend that corrects by readings a CGM can further increase the incorrectness, up or down

-And what we all know about the downward inaccussion of 10-15.20 and up to 20 usual points of Freestyle 2 for example

Example, a person not very shower in this or just debuted or negligent to control.See a reading of 65 and lowering blood, feels good but scares and believes what it has at that time, the reality is that it was 85 but also climbing because the CGM then corrected.The user takes 30 gr of HC 15 of them rapid absorption.Result 250 mg/dl at 40 worrying orange min.When he sees it, he scares and puts 4 unailed as they taught him but it turns out that the CGM 20 minutes ago corrected 190, and began a tendency to stabilize 180 although the 4 und of FIASP for example already began their effect and 40 min the user the user sees the trend in 137 and downwards but it is imprecise because it measures under and is 20 minutes ago, again more HC and thus in a loop that can take moreless.

-This previous is what many people live with.

-This better than punctures or nothing?I think yes, without a doubt but controlling much more and keeping in mind what I have said especially that you never see your now see your erroneous photo of the past.More than a serious and even hyper brutal hypoglycemia happen for this.

So knowledge and total surveillance is our safeguard and sometimes unique resource.

All the best

Sorprendido said:
@Sorprende said:

@isabelbotaWhen you talk about the new sensors, do you mean free 2 plus?

All the best.

Good afternoon, fellow gaps, I wanted to consult you, before using the Freestyle 2+ patch, the Diabox application worked quite well, in this time the glycosylated hemoglobin estimates nailed them with the blood analytics, and the application of the free freestyle more or less worked, now from the change to 2+, it is a disaster, I cannot use the Diabox application does not workIt fails a lot as indicated to Qui measures well below, in fact it sometimes reaches the difference of 50, (example 70 in the sensor and 110 in blood)

That is why I mean if you can claim or communicate through the diabetes associations that are informed of some responsible, and communicate it to Abbott, it is not an idea, but with this we are sold.

Saldos

@Antuam Perez said:

Good afternoon, fellow gaps, I wanted to consult you, before using the Freestyle 2+ patch, the Diabox application worked quite well, in this time the glycosylated hemoglobin estimates nailed them with the blood analytics, and the application of the free freestyle more or less worked, now from the change to 2+, it is a disaster, I cannot use the Diabox application does not workIt fails a lot as indicated to Qui measures well below, in fact it sometimes reaches the difference of 50, (example 70 in the sensor and 110 in blood)

That is why I mean if you can claim or communicate through the diabetes associations that are informed of some responsible, and communicate it to Abbott, it is not an idea, but with this we are sold.

Saldos

Regarding communicating to Abbott the problem of error margin in sensor readings compared to capillary measurement.You have phones and emails to make your complaint, just as you have a section to replace defective sensors.

Because if you want the associations to file the complaint for you, you can wait sitting.

Abbott has a concession of X years for the supply of sensors to public health for a good amount of millions of euros.

Therefore, neither the associations, nor the health centers that the sensors dispense will make any statement, nor complain to Abbott for the patients.

We are the patients themselves only and exclusively the only ones that we can press to perform certain actions by and for our control of diabetes and our health.

All the best

LuVi said:
@Uvi said:

Antuam Perez said:
@Antuam Perez said:

Good afternoon, fellow gaps, I wanted to consult you, before using the Freestyle 2+ patch, the Diabox application worked quite well, in this time the glycosylated hemoglobin estimates nailed them with the blood analytics, and the application of the free freestyle more or less worked, now from the change to 2+, it is a disaster, I cannot use the Diabox application does not workIt fails a lot as indicated to Qui measures well below, in fact it sometimes reaches the difference of 50, (example 70 in the sensor and 110 in blood)

That is why I mean if you can claim or communicate through the diabetes associations that are informed of some responsible, and communicate it to Abbott, it is not an idea, but with this we are sold.

Saldos

From what I have read, there have been many users to work the Diabox application, there are even complaints in the channels of said application .. which is speculated that Abbott has been able to perform some update that prevents Diabox to synchronize with the sensor, but for now there is nothing that confirms it 100%.

Regarding communicating to Abbott the problem of error margin in sensor readings compared to capillary measurement.You have phones and emails to make your complaint, just as you have a section to replace defective sensors.

Because if you want the associations to file the complaint for you, you can wait sitting.

Abbott has a concession of X years for the supply of sensors to public health for a good amount of millions of euros.

Therefore, neither the associations, nor the health centers that the sensors dispense will make any statement, nor complain to Abbott for the patients.

We are the patients themselves only and exclusively the only ones that we can press to perform certain actions by and for our control of diabetes and our health.

All the best

This is my lifestyle 41 sensor and 20% of them have had to replace them.The readings were far from being correct and marked unreal hypos.Abbott's commercials consider that up to +/- 60 is a reasonable band of difference.That is, the sensor marks 50 (hip) and you can be in 110. With that margin of error, the reliability is void.

In my ambulatory they tell me that they are fed up with returning defective sensors, so it seems a general problem that affects patients and health professionals.Your endocrine should never be fixed from the data reflected in the application.It will always be necessary to contrast them with analytics to modify the treatment.

In short, Abbott, despite the years he has been with the sensors in the market, he has a lot of homework to improve his reliability and to offer accurate data to the user.