Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to the article “Glucose Monitors: Big Money, Little Evidence,” published in the Mind & Body section on March 24.
I’m a Type 2 diabetic. I now use the OmniPod insulin pump after years of trying medicines and diets that didn’t work. I use a FreeStyle Libre 2 system for glucose monitoring to work efficiently with my pump. But no matter what I do to deal with the spiking sugars, the life-saving function in the sensor is a built-in alarm to wake me up at 3 a.m. when blood sugar decides to crash at 40 for no known reason.
