A manufacturing problem in millions of Abbott glucose sensors has been tied to at least seven deaths and hundreds of injuries worldwide.
  • Smeagol666@mander.xyz
    1·
    7 hours ago

    I have one because it’s what Medicaid will pay for. I don’t think I’ve had any trouble yet, but for the first month or two, I always double checked with my ReliOn Premier whenever it read too high or too low.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        1·
        5 hours ago

        these CGM are very expensive because of that, and they arnt that accurate to begin with compared to a glucose strip monitor for blood because they only measure interstitial fluid and not blood.

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Mine likes to give me low blood sugar alerts in the middle of the night, but I feel fine. I have had actual real low blood sugar, so I feel like I have a valid point of comparison. So I ignore the alarm. Then in the morning, the stupid device has revised the reading and doesn’t show that it ever dropped low. Thanks for waking me up and stressing me out. The first time it happened I checked it with my pin prick meter and determined that the libre was wildly inaccurate (revised data in the morning actually was pretty close to the pinprick reading).

    Still happening with my post recall meter, so I don’t think they have fixed it.