Is it spiking?
connecting…
Demo data — no sensor connected. Every number below is synthetic.
Blood glucose, right now
–.– mmol/L
Connecting
waiting for first reading
Freestyle Libre 3 Every reading, unedited
Minutes behind the sensor
Five or six minutes behind my blood Every meal photographed
Not medical advice
Freestyle Libre 3 Every reading, unedited
Minutes behind the sensor
Five or six minutes behind my blood Every meal photographed
Not medical advice
Reactions live on the meals below
For ten days there was a fine wire a few millimetres into my arm. It was
coated in an enzyme that reacts with glucose, and the reaction makes a small electric current.
That current is what the sensor actually measures. Every number on this page
started out as electricity and was converted into millimoles.
measured ).
Longer while it is climbing. Longer again as the fortnight wears on and scar
tissue builds up around the wire, which
turns out to matter more than the seeping does .
Which means the fluid is the whole game — and you can
squeeze it out. Roll onto that arm in your sleep and the pressure pushes fluid
away from the wire, which then reports a collapse it invented. A
compression low .
You can spot one without knowing any of that: it falls faster than a body
can, holds exactly one number for ten minutes, and snaps back to where it
started the moment the weight lifts. Blood sugar does none of those three.
I marked those stretches by hand; they stay on the curve, drawn dashed, and
the averages leave them out and say so.
take a copy of it though — every
reading and every meal photograph, as files.