watch glucose meters

@drlundeen: your G7 experience is same as mine. I keep hoping we can get a CGM that is reliable after 1-2 calibrations; however, Dexcom has a lot of improvement to do. It has crossed my mind, “this expensive tool adds more anxiety than help”.
They don’t want to replace defective sensors for free anymore too!
I heard Dexcom is undergoing internal business problems… you know about this?

From what I understand Dexcom will change defective sensors. Limited number replaced at no cost for those needed to be removed for medical reasons south as MRI’s.

Thanks for clarifying and the info

I agree w/ using the Libre 3 meter. . Just saw something that looked like a circular bandaid on my cousin's arm. I asked her and she said Free Style Libre 3. On her Iphone, she receives a minute to minute score and also for every day in the week.
In comes in a package w/ a couple of them as every 14 days, you have to put a new one on. Right now it is being paid by Medicare but she heard in near future you wont have to get a prescription but price will probably be higher.

I have the Libre3 and it does give you the score but don't let it out of your sight! It has to be near the sensor.

I was told Medicare would not pay unless you take insulin. I do not, but would love to have one but without insurance, I really can’t afford one.

The Libre should be within 30ft straight line. But if it looses the signal when you come back in range it recovers and goes about collect data. So sometimes if I put my phone down and walk away beyond signal range it's no big deal as the unit recovers nicely when I come back in range.

And the Libre3 reading is not a score of some kind. It's your immediate blood sugar level in mg/dl. Otherwise known as percent blood sugar. With my usage of the Libre3 my blood sugars have gone down from 8.0 to my current reading of 6.8. Just gotta love it, the machine works.

My Libre 3's are by and large within the advertised 92% threshold. I have found upper arm usage to be most unsatisfactory. I'm a mobile, side sleeper and flop to and fro. If on my left side with a left arm sensor placement it's a disaster. Not only do the readings go ridiculously innacurate with pressure variations but pressure on the sensor buries it into my arm and it hurts and wakens me from a lovely and needed old person sleep. Same thing for right/right. I have continuously tested application on my chest against blood readings and found the sensor to be just as accurate as arm placement. Voila!!

Sometimes, just for sh__'s and giggles I go back to an occasional arm placement and give my chest a rest (pun, pun), but I don't like it and it's not as accurate as my chest. I know chest is accurate, I have randomly checked both arm and chest against blood. If Abbott were to say otherwise I would challenge them to prove that statement. For many, many years I ran a laboratory. Testing and variables are not new to me. Now, realize, my findings are relevant to ME.

These CGM's are tools to be used to assist us in managing our health and are nothing more than tools. Sooner or later some other tool will come along and we'll adapt to that. For we diabetics proper sugar management is vital to our very existence on this planet. We do NOT want low blood sugar alarms going off in the middle of the night!! We do not want low blood sugar alarms at ANY time. You use a tool as a tool should be used. If you're left handed you don't drive a screwdriver with your right hand.

Hmmm, abdomen you say.