CGMs good or bad? Whats your experience?
I was so thrilled when my NO saying insurance company finally approved a CGM last year after fighting them forever. Man, I got the sensors in the mail. I downloaded the app and was roaring to go I was so happy. No more constant finger sticks. My blood sugar was just even all day and into the evening. Just an almost straight line. Every time I used fast acting insulin it never really registered my sugar going low like a finger stick does. So first night I'm sitting at 2:30 am watching a movie and that thing starts screeching my sugar is dangerously lower at 53 and heading down. Oh, Libre and the Reddit crew says its was user doing wrong not the product. So I run to the kitchen and start pounding my emergency OJ. Coming back to the reset machine it still says at 53. Take a finger stick. I'm closing in on 300 because of all the OJ. So have to bolus. I call the number the next fay and they tell me to remove and put on a new one and they will send me a new one. So did that and the same thing happens. The longest I got one last was 10 days before going to the dreaded 53 at 230 am. Abbott still hasn't replaced several sensors that broke during their massive recall. So I personally do not think the products to measure blood sugar are there yet. Shouldn't have passed the FDA. But big money so what a few people died. I went online to my insurance companies website and it shows what they pay. They were paying Abbott 237 bucks a month for the sensors that didn't work. Too expensive for a hit and miss product. Please do not get too reliant on them and hurt yourself. Everyone of the Libre 3 plus sensors I got last year didn't't do the 15 days. Most lasted a few days at most before heading to 53 and saying I was dying. I used them for 8 months. Still have sensors in the cabinet.