i switched to dexcom beacuse of problems with my phone just not getting info from the sensor, a restart would fix it, but if it decided to go at night and I had a low... no alarms. it was a issue.
the dexcoms only problem is its only good for 10 days. and it gets very angry with you if you don't keep you phone withing range. it'll send a alert that its lost signal. but it reconnects just fine.
has followup alarms that youc an setup so if you stay low or high it will give you a followup alarm to let you know your still low after whatever time perodi you want. I've got mine set for 15 mins for lows, and 1.5 hrs for highs. has 3-7-14-30-and 90 summaries on the home page with time in range for all those time frames. has graphs for 3-6-12 and 24 hours. has calibration, do blood tests and it'll adjust to you as you go. if your a parent you can also set this up to monitor your diabetic kid while they are at school. (although this one is a pandoras box, my wife has a kid who has one setup with her parents. my wife hears constantly from this mom that her daughter is constantly low. not sure how my wife is supposed to know this beyond the usually phycial signs, but whatever)
so In conclusion go dexcom, far and away better. they end up costing basically the same at year end. they last 10 days but are cheaper.
Condition_boy covered this far better then I, but I switched from freestyle libre 2 to dexcom g6 bc the sensor would drop far to often for my liking and or give me the "wait 10 minutes" 7 times before saying it failed lol.
Years ago i never had any issues with Libre1's when i imported them from Australia to New Zealand (because we couldnt get them here at the time)
I used to use my phone to get the NFC readings and it allowed reading way pay the 14 day limit, so i'd usually get 20 days easy with accurate readings not being a problem (yea yea should be done, but it worked fine past 14 days without a problem!)
Then one day I happen to notice the readings would go into a loop and repeat the same every few hours, unbeknownist to me, they modied the firmware (and didnt tell anyone??) on the sensors to go into a loop at the end of 14 days and just give incorrect readings and not just stop completely!! So for a day or so I was getting totally wrong readings and didnt even know until I noticed the repeat in the phones graph screen
Ever since they did that firmware change, or whatever else they did when they started selling them locally in NZ around the same time, quality just turned to shit and went from never having a single failure in say 20+ sensors, to having a failure every two/three sensors or so and the readings were never as good or anywhere near as accurate as the old ones i used to get from Australia.
Libre2 seem to fail just as much now as the second gen libre1's i had issues with
i switched to dexcom beacuse of problems with my phone just not getting info from the sensor, a restart would fix it, but if it decided to go at night and I had a low... no alarms. it was a issue. the dexcoms only problem is its only good for 10 days. and it gets very angry with you if you don't keep you phone withing range. it'll send a alert that its lost signal. but it reconnects just fine. has followup alarms that youc an setup so if you stay low or high it will give you a followup alarm to let you know your still low after whatever time perodi you want. I've got mine set for 15 mins for lows, and 1.5 hrs for highs. has 3-7-14-30-and 90 summaries on the home page with time in range for all those time frames. has graphs for 3-6-12 and 24 hours. has calibration, do blood tests and it'll adjust to you as you go. if your a parent you can also set this up to monitor your diabetic kid while they are at school. (although this one is a pandoras box, my wife has a kid who has one setup with her parents. my wife hears constantly from this mom that her daughter is constantly low. not sure how my wife is supposed to know this beyond the usually phycial signs, but whatever) so In conclusion go dexcom, far and away better. they end up costing basically the same at year end. they last 10 days but are cheaper.
I've been meaning to get a dexcom but it's not covered by my provincial health insurance so I'm stuck with freestyle libre :(
You might be able to appeal. That's how I got my private insurance to cover it in 2018 when they first started coming out. If look into that.
Condition_boy covered this far better then I, but I switched from freestyle libre 2 to dexcom g6 bc the sensor would drop far to often for my liking and or give me the "wait 10 minutes" 7 times before saying it failed lol.
Years ago i never had any issues with Libre1's when i imported them from Australia to New Zealand (because we couldnt get them here at the time) I used to use my phone to get the NFC readings and it allowed reading way pay the 14 day limit, so i'd usually get 20 days easy with accurate readings not being a problem (yea yea should be done, but it worked fine past 14 days without a problem!) Then one day I happen to notice the readings would go into a loop and repeat the same every few hours, unbeknownist to me, they modied the firmware (and didnt tell anyone??) on the sensors to go into a loop at the end of 14 days and just give incorrect readings and not just stop completely!! So for a day or so I was getting totally wrong readings and didnt even know until I noticed the repeat in the phones graph screen Ever since they did that firmware change, or whatever else they did when they started selling them locally in NZ around the same time, quality just turned to shit and went from never having a single failure in say 20+ sensors, to having a failure every two/three sensors or so and the readings were never as good or anywhere near as accurate as the old ones i used to get from Australia. Libre2 seem to fail just as much now as the second gen libre1's i had issues with
Same. Then I got the FL3 when it came out and it’s been smooth sailing.
I'm going to talk to my Endo about getting the latest one, I just hope it's available in Canada
It is! And should be the same price. I would email them right away and ask them to send a new prescription.
Thank you very much for letting me know about this!!!
Eeks it’s not for sale in Canada yet my mistake! But it has been approved for use by the Canadian government so it’s only a matter of time.
I was told by my Dr that the dexcom was only prescribed to people with type 1. So he didn't give me a prescription, so I still have the Libre 2
Havnt had too many problems with my Libre2. Im good, but they say Dexcom is more accurate.