[Diabetes-Talk] re impression so far of libre 2 after a few days of use

[d m gina]

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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