Libre: Flash Glucose Monitoring

The Libre is a way to check your blood sugars.

You wear a small sensor on your arm.

It is like CGM.

You scan the sensor with a reader or phone.

It tells you your blood sugars.

You must scan every  8  hours.

• You have blood sugars from the whole day.

• You can have alarms.
  They tell you when your sugars are high or low.

• You can do less finger pricks.

• You can share your results with other people.

• You must wear a sensor.
  It can feel itchy or annoying

• It gives you a lot of information.

• You must scan every 8  hours
• You lose information when you forget to scan. Like at night.

• you cannot feel low blood sugars. The Libre gives you an alarm.

• you do not like doing finger pricks.

• Libre gives you a lot of information.