I recently started glucose monitoring again. Way back when I was using the fingertip prick method (which was a pain) then moved to Libre 2. After figuring out I didn’t need the custom monitor and could just use my phone life was good! This required that I manually check my levels by using the NFC on my phone to scan the monitor. Slick!

Flash forward to a month ago and I upgraded to the Libre 3. The device is smaller than the prior version and does continuous monitoring to my phone via Bluetooth. Wonderful! There was feedback that this can be a drain on your battery as it connects and sends data every minute (not configurable) but I have not noticed this at all. This really changes the game on checking the impact of what I eat and drink and seeing the impact to my levels. I am using the notes feature in the app to try different foods and using that to inform better and better choices.

The app will show the current day and also a few different summaries. I like the view below which is a summary of my daily patterns. Between the green lines is good. Happy with where I have been for the last several weeks. The more you know!