Libre by Abbott

I work in the medical field and try to medical conditions to myself. Libre by Abbott is not having it. It wants the world to know that you are diabetic and that your glucose level is real high or real low. Discreet is not in the Abbott vocabulary. The very first day I wore it to work, it went off in the morning stand up meeting. The medical director asked where the “noise” was coming from. I told him DHL has a loud notification for “package out for delivery”. I also told him I will figure out how to disable the “noise”. Later Abbott set it up where you can delay the noise for up to six hours (still looking for a job with a six hour workday and no lunch). By the way, don’t throw away your old school glucometer yet because the sensor never knows when it is going to quit temporarily or permanently. And by the way, customer service still owes me two replacement sensors. The call to customer service was a waste of time. I still think the person on the other end was AI because it never helped. User friendly is not in the description of the LIBRE sensor. I guess it is still in beta mode. There has got to be a better way. $74 a month (my copay) for two sensors is a waste of money if they are not going to work half the time. I am “stuck” with this until someone comes along with something that works and is discrete.

Since the iPhone did a new update last Sunday the libre is not giving me any alarms. I had a 349 reading this evening. And a 60 some reading this morning. I spent two days on the phone with Apple often on to see what the problem was. I thought it was on their end, but it wasn’t. Then I called libre and got someone who knew absolutely nothing at least about this problem and we finally decided that it is with your operating system that doesn’t communicate with the new operating system from the iPhone. The young man that I spoke to seem to not be cognizant of what my problem was, and it didn’t appear that he had any support he could turn to. I am really disappointed. The suggestion that the young man gave me was I should try a new sensor well the problem with that is if I try a new sensor and it didn’t work. Boat and have to wait 15 days or ruin the sensor because you can’t switch between the sensor reader and my iPhone like you could with the 2. If I start a new sensor with the reader, then I’m locked into that for the next 15 days and I cannot send the information to my doctor and I don’t have a number two to use. I don’t know I’m just whole situation. I rely on this product and now I’m even afraid to go to sleep because I think I took too much insulin to bring my blood sugar 349 this is just. It is so frustrating. I’m gonna sound like an absolute idiot, which I am not. I have been using this product for a long came out with it.

I’ve been a type II PATIENT and heavily insulin dependent for over 40 years. I started using the Libre about 5 years ago and have been very pleased with it. About 2 years ago I started using Ozempic and lost 99 lbs. I have not used insulin since a month after starting Ozempic. Although I digressed a bit the point is I have been able to to monitor my glucose readings with a significantly accurate reading vs finger sticks since using the Libre. Periodically I check with a finger stick and the numbers are right on. Recently I started to use the 2 plus sensor with the new software supplied for my iPhone. What impresses me is the readings are real time and I don’t have to manually scan as often. I also like the new 7-90 day history charts,especially the chart that outlines how well I comply with my target ranges. Finally, the GMI reading is equal to the lab computed A1C. That is just awesome as I really don’t have to wonder how I’m really doing. Thank you Abbot Labs!