Opinion (honest) on glucose sensors

My diabox still works for me.

Yesterday I received the last shipment of Abbott sensors and everyone starts for 301, so for a few months I will have enough mess with the enormous lags.

pinkman said:
@pinkman said:

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

Important that people read this, there are many people who still do not realize these lags

@Mt2207 said:

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.

Neither a 50 or 60 variable in glycemia seems reasonable to me at all and it is more negligent to me on your part (Abbott) when promulgates on its website and blog articles /tips on diabetes and the consequences in extreme levels.

@Algameca said:

Important that people read this, there are many people who still do not realize these lags

Personally I am reluctant to use it, for work, sport and also for this inefficiency in their readings, although I have bought it on some occasion to try it.

Well, the endocrine and the nurse try to put it in my eyes, one to reduce the % of hypos and the other because to download the data is more comfortable since that is what the vast majority of patients use.

Then I go to the head of my health center, which must dispense that material and tell the doctor that on the one hand if I would encourage me to try the sensor to try to reduce the hypos, to be able to anticipate with the trend alarms, especially when it comes to doing sports, but that on the other hand dispense with the strips and less if they were going to give me a boat every 3 months.

His answer was, if you do well, don't get a sensor.

I believe that as it has been said, in the centers they are tired of returning sensors or the complaints that they do not measure well.

With how easy it would be to be able to calibrate it, as could be done with Diabox, and the problems would end, enfin

@Ruthbia said:

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@Sherpa41 I don't know, my brother who works in the Welfare Ministry sends it to me.

They have had it distributed.

I of course have never fogged about Abbott in the 10 years I have been with sensors.

Neither, I managed very well with Diabox, but hey, my mobile has Android 13 and I can't update it for ancient times, if I will have to wait to change it and safe with Abbot Enfi

From the free 2 plus, the old Diabox APK stopped working.And not only that, I downloaded the new one, which notifications function as they petize.The first sensor that I started with the new Diabox APK (note that I always started with the free link and then Diabox).Well, it turns out that the free link and all normal, alarms running, continuous measurement etc ..., I proceed to start diabox and do not start.Scan and scan and nothing.To my surprise after this, the continuous reading and alarms stopped working.

Total, to replace the sensor.

With the second sensor, I did the same, and after some weird things he did to me, he ended up working with Diabox.

Yesterday I scan my new sensor, and return the donkey to wheat, the first time happened to me:

Alarms and continuous scanning worked and now nothing works.

I am already fed up, this year I will have had to replace 7 sensors, apart from the free View application which I will have to do forced to wear is garbage.It does not put the continuous measurement on the blockade screen as Diabox does, the alarms cannot barely customize them.And it is not to stop this.

AlexMaverick said:
@AlexMaverick said:

From the free 2 plus, the old Diabox APK stopped working.And not only that, I downloaded the new one, which notifications function as they petize.The first sensor that I started with the new Diabox APK (note that I always started with the free link and then Diabox).Well, it turns out that the free link and all normal, alarms running, continuous measurement etc ..., I proceed to start diabox and do not start.Scan and scan and nothing.To my surprise after this, the continuous reading and alarms stopped working.

Total, to replace the sensor.

With the second sensor, I did the same, and after some weird things he did to me, he ended up working with Diabox.

Yesterday I scan my new sensor, and return the donkey to wheat, the first time happened to me:

Alarms and continuous scanning worked and now nothing works.

I am already fed up, this year I will have had to replace 7 sensors, apart from the free View application which I will have to do forced to wear is garbage.It does not put the continuous measurement on the blockade screen as Diabox does, the alarms cannot barely customize them.And it is not to stop this.

When I try the Diabox application, I start to fail the free link, and the diabox does not work for a roll, I think the Abbot have done something to the sensors so that they do not work with Diabox and apart if you test it creates problems with LibreLink

Enfin

You have to be careful with this news when they disseminate them that do not lead to Herrores, one thing is that one does not take care of a certain brand and another to disseminate a story that is not really like that

This Tiktok talks about the serious problems and even some death that could have caused the Dexcom G7:

Link

In the comments, although there is a user who says that it is doing well, there are many who went to free, fed up with the Dexcom failures.And they comment that they were much better.One even says that the free is a million times better than the Dexcom.And they emphasize that Dexcom only cares about money.

And that the Dexcom supports calibration.

Hello everyone, Free 2 Plus is in my case beating all the records of inaccuracy never seen, a book marks 100, the next correct to 125 and the next minute low to 110 and so on.

It is a danger and a high risk to carry it.

I think the Community of Madrid, with all the complaints received should speak with Abbot because they are scamming them and therefore.So clear.We are thousands who have been seeing failures that are already to put life at risk.

To take that better to return to the capillary puncture, there is no continuous monitoring but you prevent the pot killed.As I said here more than one case there will be a severe hiccup has taken some ahead.It leaves me perplexed that laboratories like Abbot take out such a defective and imprecise thing to the market.

I'm going to try with Dexcom, let's see, because Freestyle is over (I don't have good reports of 3 plus either although I think it's not as painful as 2)

Greetings

100,110,125 It is the same difference that 3 different glucometers would give you by clicking on your finger at the same time.

In the Tiktok that I have put before, Dexcom is seen marking 250 and the glucometer of the finger 50. That is very dangerous.

Indeed, I already made up of those differences, I sign it right now hehehe

Let's see, Abbott in his advertising does not sell accuracy, he sells"ranges and trends"and the no need for calibration.

For me 100, 120, 130 is the same, I would not make any insulin correction and if it is before eating, I would put the same amount in the 3 cases.

Removable failures are: Differences of more than 50 according to the starting value.

From 100 to 150 the pattern, according to person, can be 0.5 to 1 ud of insulin.But it is not the same as marks 45 and is really at a level of 95.

In extremely small values ​​and the very high, you always have to capillary.That is why the SS gives us strips for 3 months, at least in the C. of Madrid.

Each option to use other compatible APPs to approach their glycemic reality.

I used free 1 since 2015 with the reader, without mobile, and I got my glycos below 6 and a variability of 10%.With free 2 and free 2+ too.

The accuracy does not no sensor or capillary, is a blood analytical.