FreeStyle Libre 3 – US

Says it lasts for 15 days. 7 of them days you have no signal. It beeps more from loss of signal than the alerts you set. Not to mention that I purchased one that was damaged upon opening it.

I wasted my money buying this sensor because it always gives incorrect readings and wrong information.

So, let’s grant, for the sake of argument, that I need an audio critical alert for a bg of 53. Fine, so I acknowledge. I take some glucose. Two minutes later — before the glucose could possibly have taken effect — the app is honking, again. I need to be able to control such things, as the alert is loud and obnoxious, which is presumably intentional. So, the app is not good granting the preceding assumption. But we shouldn’t even grant that assumption. There are times I cannot have the app honk. I teach. I would love to be able to monitor my bg while teaching, but if it at some point it drops below 55, I will address it without the alarm. As it stands, I would simply have to disable critical alerts to keep the app quiet. But then I wouldn’t see the continuous bg, which is counterproductive. That abbott thinks they know better than I do what alerts should do and when is repugnant and means I will certainly be moving to the dexcom version of a con after my brief trial with the libre 3.

I’ve been using the Libre 3 app for the last few days, and while the sensor itself is excellent and does a great job detecting and tracking my glucose levels, the app experience has been very disappointing. There are several usability and reliability issues. For example, I can’t easily swipe through the graph to view glucose readings at specific times. The historical data is also inconsistent—some of my previous days’ data has disappeared, and I can’t reliably access yesterday’s readings even though I’ve been using the app continuously. The sensor seems to work well, but the app feels buggy and unfinished. Improving the stability, data history, and graph navigation would make a huge difference to the overall experience.

I have used this app on my own phone (iPhone 13pro) but need to run it on a 6s. The 6s supports up to version 15.8.8. Phone work great - no reason to replace and it’s somewhat beloved at this point. He didn’t want to switch phones for one app and I’m not with him all the time to continuously monitor. Would be great for older clientele to be able to use on their phone instead of a family members. We’ll likely just have to see other options for monitoring his glucose, see what other brands might offer. Which is a shame as I like the product otherwise.

Absolute rubbish. Constantly crashes and loses signal. Sometimes can’t even scan a new sensor. Save yourself a headache and either stay with traditional meter or switch to dexcom. On top these constantly unpeel on their own. Genuinely in shock they’re not ashamed of themselves to release these to the public.

Alarms notifications in error continuously

When I first started using this system, it was great! I started to figure out what foods were jacking up my blood sugar. But over the past year, the sensors have become less accurate, to 40-70 Point differences. Then the sensors going off at 3am in the morning for low blood sugar, but these alerts were not real, I checked them with my blood test strips and found 50 Point differences. The test strip said I was 110, but the sensor said it was 53! I have to stop using the Freestyle Libre 3+, will look for another product

My blood sugar level is totally wrong displayed! Today, while driving, it showed my blood sugar was below 70/ml. A little while later, it suddenly spiked to over 350. I haven't eaten any food. My blood sugar shouldn't be rising like this. Even if it were, it shouldn't be exceeding the maximum display range! This is clearly a sensor data reading error. However, this app doesn't have any reset function. This means the app can no longer display my blood sugar – my remaining time will be wasted.

The app functions well overall though I’ve had times when it randomly loses connection to the sensor. I’d really like to have this integrated with the Health app.