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.