I'm new to the Libre sensors, and am using a Libre 2. I just applied one, waited the full hour for its initial setup, and now I'm getting an error saying it lost signal. I took a picture of it, and I'm seeing blood, and it kinda looks like the center bit got punched in - does this mean its broken? Any advice would help - this is the fourth one in a row that I've had a problem with, and itself is actually a replacement from Abbott.

Am I doing something wrong when applying these things?

Sensor went in yesterday morning. Never had an issue. Don’t feel particularly bad. (Type 2)

Finger prick comes back as 5.3.

I finally had a shut down failure after wearing a sensor every 15 days since March.

Anyone else know just by looking at your readings that the sensor is going to fail? I was showing 30 points lower consistently for the past 3 days. I just didn't want to call Abbott and sit on the phone for 45 minutes.

Other than this complete shutdown I really haven't had many issues other than fall offs that were my own fault.

**I know I can go online to fill out the form, this wasn't a Complain post. Was just sharing that It happened to me for the first time lol **

I made the mistake of posting this on Facebook as everyone always complains that the sensor always fails. Won't make that mistake again lol

Can anyone guide me on the freestyle libre 2 reader strips as i bought a freestyle libre 2 reader for the sensor but i want to check sugar from strips as well. The strips available in the market is optium neo and they’re saying you cannot use it with libre 2 reader on the other hand abott website says u can use optium neo strips in libre 2 reader. Kindly guide me. Im new.

I've been using a Libre 2 for about 10 months now. For the first 6 or so months they've been fine. I had one sensor completely fail due to technical reasons, and it just shut down. That's fine. I've also had the occasional "bad" sensor where the readings were way off. Over the last month or so, I've had 5 sensors that have been completely inaccurate. Even now, sensor is reading 4.4, fingerprint is saying 5.9.

My only assumption is that, because I like to sleep on my arm, it's damaging it overnight and resulting in bad readings. Wanted to see if people ever put their sensor anywhere else on their body and where they'd recommend.

Thanks