I am Christel from Diabetes Strong in this video, I’ll be showing you
how to set up your Freestyle Libre 2 CGM, so that includes how to set up your receiver,
how to apply the sensor, as well as how to set up your alarms.
First thing first, you need to set up your reader. I already took it out the
box yesterday and charge it. It does come with a charger, so it's fully charged.
Here we go so this is the reader, see the size of my hand here but let's take off
the plastic film here. So first things first is I’m going to simply start it up,
you do that by
clicking the bottom down here, and you can see it's starting up.
Then it says which language, English or Spanish, for me so I say English,
you just click, click the screen and you click this "OK" up here in the corner, okay
next here what is the date so today is, actually got right it's July 29th
I just click "Next".
It says what time is it?
It got the time right as well which is pretty, well almost, it's 11 here 11
AM in California, 2021. So you just simply use the touch screen,
I can't really show you that, but you can see I’m just touching it now.
the time is there and then it says "next" down here so you click that
and then it gives you an explanation of what do the arrows mean,
so simply you can read
that how quickly things are starting. It's explaining if you see this symbol, it's like a
blood drop and a magnifying glass, it means that you need to verify all readings
with a blood sugar
measurement, so use a finger pricker, the next it's telling you that it's also a meter,
if you want to use that, I don't have test strips for it, however, so I can't do that.
Click "Next"
showing you where you could apply your sensor
so it's basically just taking you through the basics
and that's done, alrighty now we're ready so let's get the sensor ready
Okay, let's get the sensor ready. This is the sensor it comes in the pack,
so you simply take it out, got their instructions, and all that good stuff with it
It also comes with alcohol swabs, I already have those, but it's all good. So these are
the components okay, so first thing you want to do is
you want to peel the lid off the sensor pack,
so this is the sensor pack, it even says sensor pack here,
so you want to peel the lid off,
simply pull it, wow you need a little bit of finger strength here
peel that completely off, put that aside,
then you want to unscrew the cap from the sensor
applicator. So this is a sensor applicator, this is a cap, so we're going to unscrew that
there we go, we put that aside as well, you actually can see the sensor in here
okay, so you want to line up the marks on the sensor and applicator
and you want to have it on the hard surface.
So let's see that's a mark and there's a mark here, okay, so we're going to
align those, you see that one is aligned with that one,
and you're gonna press down, alrighty
so then you simply lift the applicator out of the sensor pack
here we go you can actually see the needle now, see it's in there,
so we're ready to apply it to the arm. Let's go do that.
So the Libre is assembled and we're ready to go but first, you want to clean the skin.
So they actually provided these alcohol prep swaps,
I do have some, but let's just use theirs why not,
and it's meant to go on the back of your arm so this is where it's gonna go.
So I’m just gonna dry down the skin, this makes sure,
you know, it helps so that the sensor will stay on for longer,
so I highly recommend doing this okay, just gonna let that dry for a second,
don't touch it just let it dry.
I just let my arm dry for a second and I’m ready to apply the sensor
so you hold on to the gray part and it press it against the skin.
I haven't tried the Libre 2 before so this is new to me as well,
so let's do this together so we cleaned the back of the arm,
supposed to put it up against the skin and then simply push down
oh there you go, that was super easy and then you throw this away.
Let's put that aside. I just want to make sure that it's actually sticking to the skin,
It's sticking, cool
So next up is that we want to start it in the reader. I got on the reader first step is you
simply press the big button, so that one.
It turns on and you can see here it's actually prompting you,
it says you want to start a new sensor, so you click that “start a new sensor”
and then it's saying okay hold it up towards the sensor,
I’m just gonna do that, scan sensor to start it
there we go it's just giving me a warning telling me
you know high doses of vitamin C can mess with the sensor and stuff like that,
there's a little "OK" up here in the corner click that.
New sensors starting up, the sensor can be used is 60 minutes, so that's because the
startup period for the Libre 2 is 60 minutes,
so in 60 minutes I should start getting readings
let's have a look at the alarms, so this is a touchscreen, you open up the front screen
up here in the right-hand corner this is a little symbol and here you click "alarms"
so here you can see the factory settings.
So low glucose is 70 mg/dl, high glucose is 240, signal loss is on,
so you can change those by simply clicking here on “Change alarm settings”, let's do
that. Let's say we want to change the low glucose,
say I already want to be warned when I’m at
so you say done
but let's say instead I don't want the low glucose alert at all, I can just click "off"
here and now it's off, I think the low glucose alert is probably the most valuable one,
so we're going to keep that one on, same thing click high glucose alert
you can change that here,
signal loss turn that on or off,
click "Done" and then once you're done changing it
to whatever you want it you just say "OK"
up here in the left-hand corner.
Next thing you want to look at is sound and vibrations, that's simply how do you
want to be alerted when something is off. So right now you know sounds
sound is on you can also take it off and just use vibration for example
so now it'll only vibrate when you have alerts, so I kind of like this setting,
that's what I’m going to roll with, and then you just close down your device
After wearing the sensor for two weeks you simply peel it off
and you toss it in the trash.
If it really sticks to the skin or if you have a lot of body hair,
consider using a glue remover like this one.
I will link to that down in the video description,
it'll just make it easier to take off the sensor but let's take it off
there you go and that just goes in the trash.
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