Solman said:
hello everyone,
I am new in this forum and I wanted to comment on my problem.
I have been using the sensors for years, first the 1 and then 2. Sometimes it has taken off or has stopped working a few days before, but in this summer I had to change at least 6. Yes, they replenish them, but if I do notThey work on what is useful to use them.
I explain the problem.I feel an internal itching and around the sensor almost nothing more to install it so I think it causes me some infection or reaction allergy and of course this does, I think, that the readings are wrong since there are always 50, 60 units less than to the capillary extent.
That means that I always have to click to check the data.In addition, sometimes the third day stops working.
This has already happened to me with 4 sensors in a row so I think that somehow I will have turned "intolerant" to its use.I wouldn't like to stop using sensors because it helps me, but I don't know what to do.The company Abot does not give me any explanation and my endocrine tells me that it is they who should know what happens.
Anyway, a new problem added to my life with diabetes.
I await your comments and know if this happens to someone else.
Greetings, Marisol
Hello, the sensors fail a lot.These are my data:
2021: 7 Falls + 1 Fallen (that's more than 25 %)
2022: 2 failures + 1 fallen (12.5 %)
Abbot always changes them and the boxes are accumulated;) have an obvious problem of quality control.At first, when they were not given to anyone, they were like a shot.Given this, little can be done.
What you comment also happens to me.Sensors that work 14 days, but systematically low, about 50-60 mg/dl difference.You have to always check with the capillary within a few hours of putting it on and the next day, that is forced (and what I do not understand is that the house does not foresee it that way).
For this, then keep it in mind, that when it actually marks 160 and so on.(In hypoglycemia values, what it usually does is saturate to 50 and from there it does not fall).Or, look for an unofficial app for the mobile, almost all of them allow to change the calibration.
As for skin irritation, it is rare.As soon as the hole sensor is inflamed?You should see a 1-2 mm inflammation circle around the hole.If you don't see it (only the sensor's trapeze mark), then there are no effects.Sometimes he feels slight pain or discomfort, it has happened to me many times, but I don't relate it to sensor failures.In any case, you should not become obsessed, and this issue must be resolved by the endocrine.