Blood sugar is measured by pricks and strips! Ranges from 90's to 135.

My Doctor has prescribed a new meter so I don't have to prick my fingers all the time it's a Free style Libre,
my doc said that most insurance companies will pay for the two part kit.. Well I don't know because it going to end up costing me $145...

Has anyone ever tried it? What do you think? Is it more accurate than the finger sticks, just as accurate or not as accurate?

Has anyone found where you can get it at a really reduced rate or even free?

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Many of us, myself included, seem to be a little tentative in totally relying on what our CGM (Libre or Dexcom being the two most common) are telling us

We seem to always "suspect" they are reading a little high, a little low or really out to lunch sometimes

So just yesterday I got to put my CGM (Libre 2) to the ultimate test - I got to compare what it has been telling me to a lab drawn A1C test (my annual A1C test)

We currently have 3 main options for testing our blood sugar

There is the… read more

I'd like trends, advice, patterns, notes. Food and exercise logging not essential but would be nice.

That certainly is the perception with those of us who have used or use a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) but do they really "read low".

First we need to understand exactly what they are "reading".

A Lab test, so when you go for A1C, 8 hour Fasting Test, A Random Test or an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) they are drawing blood directly from your veins.

Your veins contain the "most accurate" level of blood sugar "at the time of the test" because veins are "closest to the sugar source"… read more