[Diabetes-Talk] re impression so far of libre 2 after a few days of use
d m gina
dmgina at mysero.net
Fri Nov 19 02:57:55 UTC 2021
I am pleased you are so happy.
Good for you.
Glad it is smaller as well.
Dar
Original message:
> Hello as I stated to the group that I was going to get the libre 2 this
> week .i ended up getting my libre 2 senssors from my CVS pharmacy on Monday
> night.i put them on Tuesday morning, set up the libre 2 app. the libre 2
> app was very easy to set up with the I phone with voice over.all the
> buttons , edit boxes and all that was very accessible.since I had my
> previous libre account set up, all I had to do was log into my libre
> account on libre 2 app , and all the info from the libre 1 set up synced
> to the libre 2 , as it related to people in my family, and doctors
> following my libre were all there and no issues on that front. In the
> libre 2 ap I se that there is lots of useful information. Also I linked up
> the libre 2 app, to the libre view site, so I could view all the
> information through the libre view website, as far as all my glucos
> numbers, food , exercise and insulin dozing , trends, high and lows,
> averages, time in range and one more thing that I am forgetting was
> there as well. Just like the dexcom, the libre 2, the graphs are not
> accessible to us unfortunately. the initial set up of the senssor was
> exactly like the libre 1. No issues there.the libre 2 senssor is actually
> smaller then the libre 1 senssor . As well I was able to use my older
> overlay patchs from libre 1, on libre 2, that saved me from having to
> get new overlay patchs. The first day with any cgm system, comparing and
> contrasting the libre 2 cgm with my gluco meter till things settled in with
> the cgm. The difference between my gluco meter an the libre 2 on first day
> was a bit inconsistent, butt after the first day then things settled in
> an the difference between my gluco meter and the libre 2 on average wer more
> accurate and more in line then libre 1. On average, the difference between
> my gluco meter and libre 2, was between 5 to 15 no greater then that. After
> the second and third days, the difference was even smaller between 1 to 10
> units difference between my gluco meter and the libre 2 cgm on average
> through out the day . So this may differ depending on food, exercise and
> medications. Alerts an alarms, only thing I don't like , hoping that the
> libre folks improve are no customization in the alarm tones you have either
> standard or custom. In custom, there is no customization as I would
> think like the dexcom g5 I had in the past . The urgent low is hard coded
> at 55 or lower. Low and high alerts an alarms can be changed , the default
> that they have is 70 for low and 240 for high and I changed those and to
> reflect my tighter control. So far I am really liking what I am seing.i did
> not have any issues with any of my medications interfering with the libre 2
> at all. Overall will let you know over a longer period of how things
> improve from initial impression . So ffar I am sticking with libre 2 for
> the time being due to the fact that most insurance wwill givea harder tim
> in covering Dexcom and out of pocket dexcom is more expensive then libre 1
> or libre 2 at $140 for a month use of libre senssors in which medicare and
> other insurance cover them . as my insurance covered 80% of it an its only
> costing me 20% out of pocket. What I did hear from my pharmacy, and I
> don't know , most need to ask , is that the libre 1 will be phased out at
> beginning of year at major pharmacies for libre 2. So take that into
> consideration for those who are users of libre 1 14 day at the moment.
> I would do some investigating between now an the new year about the phase
> out of libre 1 for libre 2 depending where you get your sensors at hope
> this helps those with libre 1 14 day senssors on libre 2 impressions so
> far.
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