Glucose monitors in general are expensive ($100+ retail) products that are meant to be disposable every two weeks, which itself is insane. I understand the design constraints that the Libre is under, and they are onerous, but they just have to make a more reliable product.
xDrip also has a feature that will calibrate the libre with pokes which increases the accuracy.
We never bolus off the libre's readings though, but it's fantastic for trends and seeing spikes and crashes in real-time. For example, I can see that my son is high af between 8am to 11am (post breakfast spike), so I've tweaked his basal rate a few times so that he's always in range now during that time period with no crashing afterwards.
I mean, I would love a dexcom over the libre any day of the week, but I'll take what I can get here in Vietnam.
If you need xdrip4ios, let me know and I can put it on testflight for you.
Overall I'm impressed but there's quite a lot of waste, I'd love a reusable applicator.
I can imagine this being incredibly useful for parents!
It's been a real life changer. Before I'd have to stay up at night to check his blood a couple of times, but now I no longer need to. We've been able to flatten his curve and keep him in a sane range by adapting his basal rate based on the data. I can see when he is dropping low at school and inform them to correct the situation.
I'm not sure why the author isn't using nightscout data for his complication though. Great article, none the less.