Can anyone tell me the current Costco price? My CVS has gone up to $95/month for cash pay plus coupon this year. I see that Costco was cheaper than that last year. Is that still the case?
I applied my new sensor this morning with 12 hours to go on the old one, and I’ve told myself a dozen times or more already today to remember that the new one is the one applied HIGHER up on my arm.
I typically apply the new one pretty close to the old one because I’ve found kind of the sweet spot on my arm where the sensor tends to be pretty accurate and I hate to deviate from that fairly small area. But I’m endlessly paranoid that I’ll forget which is which and take off the wrong one!
I can’t be alone in this.
Hi, I have developed an app that allows you to monitor your blood glucose levels while you ride your bike. It runs on the Hammerhead Karoo bike computer. GluKaMon is now out of beta and it's free. Full description of it on the web site: glukamon.com
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Sensor went in yesterday morning. Never had an issue. Don’t feel particularly bad. (Type 2)
Finger prick comes back as 5.3.
EDIT: Abbot are going to replace the sensor :)
I finally had a shut down failure after wearing a sensor every 15 days since March.
Anyone else know just by looking at your readings that the sensor is going to fail? I was showing 30 points lower consistently for the past 3 days. I just didn't want to call Abbott and sit on the phone for 45 minutes.
Other than this complete shutdown I really haven't had many issues other than fall offs that were my own fault.
**I know I can go online to fill out the form, this wasn't a Complain post. Was just sharing that It happened to me for the first time lol **
I made the mistake of posting this on Facebook as everyone always complains that the sensor always fails. Won't make that mistake again lol
I've been using a Libre 2 for about 10 months now. For the first 6 or so months they've been fine. I had one sensor completely fail due to technical reasons, and it just shut down. That's fine. I've also had the occasional "bad" sensor where the readings were way off. Over the last month or so, I've had 5 sensors that have been completely inaccurate. Even now, sensor is reading 4.4, fingerprint is saying 5.9.
My only assumption is that, because I like to sleep on my arm, it's damaging it overnight and resulting in bad readings. Wanted to see if people ever put their sensor anywhere else on their body and where they'd recommend.
Thanks
I'm new to the Libre sensors, and am using a Libre 2. I just applied one, waited the full hour for its initial setup, and now I'm getting an error saying it lost signal. I took a picture of it, and I'm seeing blood, and it kinda looks like the center bit got punched in - does this mean its broken? Any advice would help - this is the fourth one in a row that I've had a problem with, and itself is actually a replacement from Abbott.
Am I doing something wrong when applying these things?
Can anyone guide me on the freestyle libre 2 reader strips as i bought a freestyle libre 2 reader for the sensor but i want to check sugar from strips as well. The strips available in the market is optium neo and they’re saying you cannot use it with libre 2 reader on the other hand abott website says u can use optium neo strips in libre 2 reader. Kindly guide me. Im new.
The adhesive on these is honestly terrible, they start peeling off pretty quickly, especially around the edges.
I've tried the overpatches, but pretty much every one I find covers the little hole at the top of the sensor, which Libre specifically says not to cover.
So what are you guys using to keep them on without covering that hole? Is there a specific overpatch that actually leaves it exposed, or some other trick that works well?
I'm getting pretty tired of having to worry about them falling off after being on for 5-7 days.
It's been a while since I've had multiple early sensor failures but just had two Libre 3+ sensors stop working in a row. One after 4 hours, the other after 16 hours. Both while I was at rest late at night. Not compression issues,
Data shows a precipitous drop to a very low reading around 53 followed by communications loss. One showed a few intermittent connections over the next couple hours, all reading 53 or lower, then zip. I could rescan the sensor but no readings appear. Battery optimization is turned off for Juggluco.
Did I just get two turds in a row or has an Android 17 update created new problems? Would like to hear from fellow Android 17/Juggluco users if possible.
8 hours after applying my first ever CGM sensor and just sitting watching YouTube all of a sudden my left arm and hand went totally numb. Very uncomfortable then I remembered the sensor so I asked Gemini could this be due to the sensor and Gemini's first response was yes you should remove it immediately so I did. The numbness occurred twice around 10 minutes apart. I've had the sensor off for about an hour now and no more numbness. There is some pain in my pinky and some stiffness in my elbow. Not a promising start for Libre 3 and me.
Why is it the only cgm that worked was Dexcom g6.
G7 turns trash on day 7 with significant fluctuations
Libre 3 seems like telling my im 3.2 when its 8
Hi everyone,
I built a completely serverless way to deploy Nightscout. It costs nothing, and takes maybe a few minutes to set up, even if you have zero tech background.
https://github.com/sid-luo/nightscout-for-cloudflare
Ten years ago, my wife was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. She was 33 weeks pregnant, went into DKA, and was admitted to the hospital. She spent 3 days in the ICU, and we lost our baby girl. The aftermath was really rough on us.
It was something we struggled with for a long time, until 5 years ago when she got pregnant again. I started building little devices to monitor her blood sugar, all relying on Nightscout. Over time, I basically became a Nightscout "expert" and started hosting it on my own servers for other T1Ds for free.
I love the Nightscout project, but let's be honest, setting it up isn't exactly friendly for non-tech folks (and yeah, I know commercial options exist). I wanted to build this on Cloudflare because their free tier is super generous. The problem? It doesn't support MongoDB, and rewriting the core architecture was way above my paygrade. Thanks codex, I spent a lot of time (and burned through a massive amount of tokens) and finally got it working.
I’ve tested it a bunch, but this is my very first open-source project, so there will probably be some bugs.
BTW, my older son is 4 now, and my youngest is almost 2. Both are perfectly healthy.
Hello, yesterday I had extremely unpleasant experience with the sensor. My arm was hurting for like a hour (and mostly in place where the sensor is located), sometimes this happens to me when the sensor goes down (and making a pause in blood sugar measurement), but yesterday the sensor was working fine, so I was confused what to do with it. I wanted to take it off, but I managed to keep it and it is fine now. Any explanation why it is happening? Do you have suggestions what to do with it. Any experiences are welcome. Thx!
Is there ANY way to try avoiding the vein when applying literally any cgm? Just lost my only cgm because the blood reached the sticker part and it fell off
Hi all, Irakli here, founder of Sugar Sense.
Two things before anything else.
First, housekeeping: I posted about the app in this community a few weeks ago from an older account. That account is gone along with the post, so from today everything Sugar Sense related comes from this one account only. Real name, affiliation right in the bio, no pseudonyms. If you remember the July thread, this is the same project and the same person.
Second, who I am: type 1 since 2014, CGM wearer since the original FreeStyle Libre, Libre 3 Plus on my arm today. My team and I have spent the last two years building Sugar Sense. It is growing quickly right now, and the messages arriving from people all over the world are a big part of why we keep shipping.
What Sugar Sense is: a companion app that shows your CGM readings on every screen you own and alerts you when it matters. It connects through LibreLinkUp (the same sharing rail the official follow apps use), so it works with any FreeStyle Libre sensor that shares there: Libre 2, Libre 2 Plus, Libre 3, Libre 3 Plus. It also connects to Dexcom G6 and G7 through Dexcom Share, and to any Nightscout site. Our server checks for new readings every few minutes and pushes them to whatever device you are near. The official Libre app stays your primary. This is an extra layer on top, born mostly from nights when one alarm was not enough to wake me.
Where your glucose can show up now:
iPhone and Apple Watch. Full app, your glucose on the Lock Screen as a Live Activity and in the Dynamic Island, home and lock screen widgets, and an Apple Watch app with complications, so your Libre reading sits right on the watch face.
Android and Wear OS. Launched on Google Play this week with full feature parity: home screen widgets, a Wear OS watch app, the same alerts.
Amazon Alexa. "Alexa, ask Sugar Sense what's my glucose" speaks your current reading and trend on any Echo, and Echo Show devices draw a color chart card too.
Windows. If you have ever wanted your FreeStyle Libre or Dexcom readings on a Windows PC, our system tray app (on the Microsoft Store) keeps the live number next to the clock all day.
Mac. If you spend your day on a Mac, the menu bar app keeps your glucose and trend arrow at the top of the screen, visible in every app, with a recent graph one click away.
Your browser. If you live in tabs, our extension for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari puts your live glucose right on the toolbar as a colored badge, so checking your blood sugar is a glance, not an app switch.
The web. app.sugarsense.io is a full web dashboard: open it in any browser on any computer, a work PC included, and see your current glucose, the day's graph and your history with nothing to install.
Garmin. Next up: the Connect IQ watch app (your glucose at a glance on a Garmin watch) is built and in beta testing right now, heading to the Connect IQ Store soon. (If you wear a Garmin and would like to help test it, comment here and I will message you.)
Alerts are the heart of it: configurable low, high and urgent low alerts, a predictive low alert that warns you around 20 minutes before a projected urgent low, rapid fall alerts, missed reading alerts, critical alerts that can break through Silent and Focus on iPhone, and Call for Low: an optional automated phone call for dangerous lows, a real ringing call that can also reach a trusted contact, made for heavy sleepers and overnight lows. And if a parent, partner or friend follows your numbers today, Care Circle gives them real time following on both iPhone and Android, with their own alerts on their own phones.
Inside the app: a logbook for meals, insulin, activity and notes, statistics with time in range and GMI (estimated A1C), an overnight Morning Report, food logging with an AI carb estimate from a photo, and pattern insights. No CGM, or no LibreLinkUp in your region? There is a manual logging mode, plus Apple Health and Health Connect import.
On pricing, so nobody has to dig: monitoring, all alerts, family following, the logbook, statistics and CSV export are free. Premium covers the watch apps (Apple Watch and Wear OS), the always-on lock screen views (Live Activity and Dynamic Island on iPhone, live updates on Android), Call for Low and the AI features, and the app is upfront about which is which.
Honest notes: it is not a medical device, never make treatment decisions from it alone, and it needs glucose sharing (LibreLinkUp, Dexcom Share or Nightscout) to work.
To the people from the July thread who volunteered to test Android: it is live now, and since the old account is gone, the DMs I promised had no account to come from. Consider this the promised ping, and thank you, you genuinely shaped the launch. One honest note: that first Android version sat in review while the iPhone app kept moving, so a polish update is already built and heading out, and updates will land often from here. If you are on Android and want new builds before they hit the store, comment or DM me and I will add you to the testing track.
Everything is linked from sugarsense.io, App Store and Google Play included. Happy to answer anything here, and feature requests are very welcome. A good part of the current roadmap started as comments from communities like this one.
Hi all,
My daughter has recently started using libre 3+.
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to figure out what version of iOS Libre is compatible with (at least in Denmark using Ypso’s app).
What is the general experience? Is it safe to update to 26.6?
Hey guys!
Maybe some of you have a clue what’s going on with my sensor issues. I’m honestly at the end of nerves at this point.
For months now I’m having issues with my sensors but the last few weeks it’s getting just worse and worse. The last, idk, 3-5 sensors were good at the start. But after a few days they were showing completely wrong numbers. At the moment, I have to change the sensor every 2-3 days.
It often starts at night, mostly when I think it’s a compression low but it’s not getting up even after I’m not laying down anymore. I honestly don’t know what I’m doing.
I’m grateful for any help!
I have an android with a libre 3 connected to it, im planning to switch to an iphone this week. Can i still use the same sensor? Is there any way to connect an active sensor? Or do i have to buy a new one