Re: Detailed experience
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Posted by Ellen on 11:47:19 2006/04/10
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Re: Detailed experience posted by Kate
For those of you on insulin-pumpers.org - there was a recent post of problems with the dexcom.
I'll post it here without the person's name:
I've been doing one of the DexCom trials for 10 weeks. During that time,
I've had about 65% of my sensors work correctly and 35% of them not work at
all. I get frustrated that the calibration doesn't happen very easily and
consistently. It is supposed to take two hours before it requests 2 blood
drops for calibration, but my experience is that it doesn't accept the first
two and I have to do at least two more. I would hope that they're working
to correct the sensor issue and some of the calibration issues.
When they work, it's great information, although we don't have the software
to upload the information to our computers (which I would like so that I
could see the trends over several days). I've had two painful insertions
and many not too painful ones. When I go low it takes longer for it to
reflect the rise after I eat than it shows on my meter. When I'm on the
higher end, it can be up to 100 points off. When I'm between 80 and 200,
it's pretty close (20 points either way -- which the research MD said was
true of most meters).
Since I don't have very good insurance, I'm not sure if I would actually buy
one. The difference is that we don't have any physician support to actually
evaluate the information and change our basals/boluses, etc. If I had my
own and was working with a doctor, then I'd have someone to help me use the
information. I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to test it out. It
gives me great hope for the future of diabetes management.
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