[Diabetes-Talk] a few freestyle libre questions

[ed worrell]

Hello Amber,

No you did not screw anything  by starting the Libre sensor via the reader first. You can now scan the sensor on your arm with the phone application. Have you opened the LibreLink app and created an account for the LibreView service? If not you will need to do this on the phone first. You then can find the "start a sensor” button in the middle of the screen. This will make you go through a tutorial first. It’s pretty simple and you will need to find the next button at the bottom of the screen after VoiceOver has read the instructions to you. The application is pretty easy to use after you have gone through the set up the first time. You now can scanning the scan sensor button in the top right hand corner of the screen or use the check glucose button in the Lower center of the screen. If you need the text to speech option you will need to ope the menu in the top left hand corner of the screen navigate down until you hear the settings option, double tap on that and now settings will open in. A new window. Find the the text to speech option and double tap on this to activate the toggle to turn it on. Find the back arrow in the top left corner and now you should be back on the main screen/home of the application.

Checking your blood sugar with the app…
1. Find the scan sensor image button in the top right hand of the corner, Voiceover should read scan sensor.
2. Hold the top of the phone next to the back facing camera up to the sensor. Tip: get the back facing camera as close to the sensor as possible. Don’t have the camera on top of the sensor on your arm but next to it.
3. The app should make a quiet double beep. This means the sensor has been scanned.
4. After all of this now you should hear the blood sugar and  trend arrow. It will say something like 120 and changing slowly. This means that you are staying pretty constant. Obviously your blood sugar will differ.

I hope this helps.

Ed Worrell
  

> On Jan 3, 2019, at 9:33 AM, Amber Wallenstein via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I just got the freestyle libre. The pharmacist showed me how to put it on my arm.
> A few questions.
> I receive my phone tomorrow.  Once I install the app, does the app communicate with the reader to show me my readings?  After I register, how do I import those readings?  I didn’t mess anything up by starting the censor on my reader and not on the phone, did I?
> How do I take the patch off when the two weeks are over?
> Can it get wet and will the adhesive be OK in the shower?
> Right now I don’t have a way to read the reader… I tried with Seeing Eye with no luck.  Can’t wait for my phone to get here tomorrow.
> Thanks for any help you can give!
> Amber
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