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(as of Sep 30, 2025 07:01:47 UTC – Details)
B0DRVD8TH8, DISCLAIMER: The Lingo Glucose System is intended for users 18 years and older not on insulin. It is NOT intended for diagnosis of diseases, including diabetes.
Don’t use if you have problematic hypoglycemia: The Lingo Biosensor hasn’t been designed for this population. Consult with your healthcare professional to discuss which Abbott product is right for you.
The Lingo program does not guarantee that everyone will achieve the same results as individual responses may vary. Consult your healthcare professional before making changes to your diet or exercise regimen or if you have an…, 3,
Reviewer: Shawn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The best money I’ve ever spent!
Review: This has been so enlightening! I’m a thin, very active, and very healthy eating 60 year old with an A1c just barely in the pre diabetic range (5.7) per my last physical and lab results. I was shocked. So I bought this to see if I could find out when my sugars were high and after what foods. Well I was shocked again to find out how high my sugars went and how frequently I get big swings. I’m on my 4th day and have finally figured out through trial and error my diet and activity level and timing to give me a good Lingo score. I found that I need to eat less carbs (even though all were whole grain) and less fruit (I love fruit!) and only after some protein but mostly that I need to eat smaller meals and to stay active for about an hour after each meal to keep my sugar levels stable and from peaking so high. Yes it’s a little bit of a hassle but something I can do and so much better than medication or worse – having diabetic complications down the road. I would never have known without being able to have a constant monitoring system! It’s very easy to place the monitor and painless. And the app is easy to use. This will change my behavior and prevent so much pain and problems in my future. I cannot recommend this high enough if you’re pre diabetic or if you just want to have your eyes opened regarding what your sugars are on a real time basis. The best fifty bucks I’ve ever spent!It’s now 7 days later. The monitor stopped working on day 6. I called Amazon and they gave me a full refund without any problems. However, I still think the information was life changing for me. I would have liked more time to try different foods to see my body’s response, so I will try another one. I’m going to keep my rating at 5 stars because of how incredibly enlightening it was even though it only lasted the 6 days.
Reviewer: KEYSER_SOZE
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Powerful information. The app is a good start but needs a lot of work.
Review: Update after 6 weeks:Pros:1 see live glucose levels2 average daily glucose levels over several canned timeframes3 small and discrete4 easy to apply and painlessThe data is eye-opening. In 6 weeks I learned my hunger is driven by a glucose roller coaster. The spikes after eating result in insulin that brings glucose down to levels that trigger hunger, which causes me to eat when my stomach is still full. Then glucose spikes again, repeating this process all day. This explains why I would eat all day and feel hungry all day. My chart looked like a sine-wave.The data helped me to make a few small changes that have stabilized my glucose levels. They neither spike very high, or dip very low anymore. They hover close to my average. Starting with a Lingo count of 66, I ended the 6 weeks with counts between 0 and 12. My starting glucose was averaging 117 daily and ended at 95. On an empty stomach my glucose was around 100 and now it is around 90.Without starving , feeling hungry, or trying, I lost 5 pounds, my triglycerides dropped 30% and my cholesterol has also come down. Pretty incredible. I’m actually eating more of what I love but using the knowledge of how my body processes the food to my advantage. I don’t have any hunger at all!Cons:1 limited choices when logging activity types and foods & no way to save a list of repetitive foods.2 missing beverage or “other” consumption tracking category3 no custom/user selectable timeframes for average glucose levels4 no user interface via web to view data or provide it to medical practitioner5 no data manipulation capabilities for generating custom reports6 data is locked in lingo app and cannot be exported for any other purpose7 app can be “jumpy” and take you where you didn’t want to go, freezes, closes, and disconnects from sensor often8 sensor does not stay on without medical tape.My first sensor only stayed on for 3 days before coming off. I followed the directions precisely for application but it did not last. The second sensor began to come loose after about 5 days. I ended using medical tape and that resolved the issue. By itself, it does not seem possible for it to stay on for two weeks. I throughly cleaned and shaved the area on the back of my arm, but no luck.The app does not allow you to search your food entries to quickly view reactions to certain foods, confirming or comparing results. Unless you’re creating a separate journal with your reactions sorted by food type, you are jumping back and forth between days and trying to find the information. This is not easily manageable if you’re very serious about getting the full benefit of a CGM.Also, the app doesn’t allow you to enter anything eaten in categories other than Snack, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. What about beverages? On my iPhone, when you are entering the name of the food, you cannot see the entry because it ends up behind the keyboard. If you try to scroll, it still does not show you the area you are typing in. This leads to lots of typos in the log.Another annoyance is that if you have a sudden inexplicable rise in glucose (I get them when asleep) the app only allows you to record exercise or food. You can remove the lingo count, but an indicator remains there requesting that you log an event. Those markers can clutter your chart with no explanation as to why they are there. Looking back you are left to wonder, did I forget to log food I ate, or is it an inexplicable spike?With some serious app updates and perhaps a website that has charts, reports and additional functionality, this could be a more powerful tool. As is, I only rate the app 2 stars out of 5 and the overall product a 4.I am off to try another brand of CGM to see if they have a better app interface to the date. Moreover, their over-the-counter model allows you to login online and see and manipulate the same data a doctor can see with their prescription version.
Reviewer: skoobagirl
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love the valuable info from a CGM but Lingo is glitchy
Review: I’d give it 5 stars for the valuable info the CGMs provide in general and ease of use with the Lingo app and pairing. I learned a lot about my eating habits and how specific foods you eat, the time that you eat, and how you pair foods together impact glucose levels, which was very valuable information in staying healthy and for weight loss. But the Lingo device itself gets only 3 stars because it’s extremely glitchy – I had to send one back because it stopped working properly midway (stopped registering any Lingo counts and customer service rep couldn’t fix even with a device and app reset). I’ve also had odd readings – i.e, 1 keto cookie and 1 keto chocolate square sent my glucose sky high to 200 while a night of 2 glasses of red wine and a fairly heavy meal with potatoes, butter, cheese led to 0 Lingo counts and a small blip on the glucose chart. There’s also a ramp up period when you put a new one on where it is inaccurate and all over the place, which completely messes up your weekly and total averages. The readings also rarely lined up with my blood glucose monitor – and while I know they won’t be exactly the same because Lingo tracks serum glucose – the huge discrepancies I was seeing are not supposed to happen. I did Lingo for 2 months and have stopped for the summer – didn’t want it to look like someone put an Air Tag on me when I wore short sleeved shirts! I would likely do it again here and there despite the problems because you can still get helpful information in the net – it’s just for the high price tag (almost $100 a month) and the fact it’s made by a pharma company, I’d expect better accuracy and reliability.
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