[Diabetes-Talk] Freestyle Libre

[Edward Green]

Hi Denise,

The app will tell you if your sugars are rising or falling if you take a reading with the phone, though oddly you need to enable the app's own self-voicing functionality to get this - Voiceover will only read the glucose. Does the Dexcom system handle this differently?

I haven't had any accuracy issues with it - I like the fact you're not required to calibrate, but I did for the first little while for interest. It's useful to know that accuracy could be a problem though as I haven't been doing that of late.

I agree that hypo warnings would be useful. It's not essential for me as I tend to feel them, but the extra security would be nice should I stop doing so.

Greg - it might be worth you getting a UK iTunes Store account if you go down the libre route, I have a US one for similar eventualities.

Cheers,

Ed 


> On 2 Nov 2018, at 14:16, Dr. Denise M Robinson via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I have used them both-- Libre doesn't even come close to the DEXAcom. Which
> you can use connected to your iPhone and also alert you of lows and highs.
> The Libre will not do either of that. It will also not keep up  if your
> blood sugar is going up quickly or going down quickly. It will give you
> wrong glucose numbers
> I anticipate that it will be a good product after they fix these issues.
> 
> * Dr Denise M Robinson*
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> *Denise M Robinson, TVI, PhD*
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> On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:32 AM Melanie Torrance via Diabetes-Talk <
> diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>> I haven’t used the Freestyle Libre, but could you tell us where to go for
>> the podcast you watched?
>> Melanie Torrance
>> 
>> Sent from Melanie's i phone
>> 
>>> On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:23 AM, Greg Wocher via Diabetes-Talk <
>> diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> I listened to a podcast yesterday called Accessibility Moving Forward
>> and on it there was a demonstration of someone using the Freestyle Libre.
>> He used the Envision AI app to read the screen of the meter. It worked
>> quite well. I am going to see if my doctor will give me a prescription for
>> it. It would be great to not have to prick my fingers six or more times a
>> day. Has anyone else tried using this system before?
>>> 
>>> Greg Wocher
>>> 
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