i am thinking that i look at the dexcom to often and when i don’t have it any more for whatever reason i will worry about my bg and test way to much and will never be easy about where my bg is because i cant see an awesome graph that tells me everything i would want to know about it.
I feel the same way! I just got it 3 wks ago and wore it for 2 weeks. I’ve been off of it for almost a week now and don’t like NOT knowing how I’m trending. While I don’t like having another patch on my body, I do like knowing how to bolus or not bolus based on the trend. Plus it’s so expensive! I have to pay $240 for a box of sensors! I think it could be a love/hate relationship :(.
I’m glad to hear you say that. …I thought it was just me! lol I think for the last 10 years (since I started on a pump) I have been pretty obsessed with testing. I’ve been testing 8-10 times a day for most of the last decade. But now I look at my CGM and I test when the CGM tells me to. My numbers are almost always within 5 points of each other but usually less than 5.
I feel the same way. When I had a bad sensor and got constant ???, my blood sugar levels where pretty out of whack I noticed compared to other days with sensors that didn’t have problems. I am thankful that the start-up time for Dex is only 2 hours (not 10 hours, etc.) and that the period between the down time is every 7 days (not every 3 days, etc.).
After having Dex, I’m more and more thankful / feel blessed that Abbott made me upset from their customer service along with their backorder issues that I went immediately to Dexcom and received my buddy Dex via FedEx (which was available and in stock and a super trainer schedule training before Dex arrived at my house).
Hubby and I worry now about the National Health Care and worry about the perks we enjoy from private health insurance… When Hubby gets a new job, he has gotten to where he will ask his peers what the health insurance is through consulting firm prior to interviewing to make sure a potential job doesn’t use GHP (as GHP denied me an insulin pump back in the days I had an A1c of 11% and had 3 specialists write letters of recommendation for me to get on pump… can you believe that??? I found out GHP didn’t want to pay for any gadget that would help a Diabetic but would rather pay for hospitalizations, etc.)
I saw Endo a few days ago and he was amazed at how well I was doing (even though I felt personally I wasn’t doing good enough - I admit that I’m too much of a perfectionist) and Endo agreed how wonderful Dex has been and how he’s been trying to get more of his patients on Dex due to the accuracy. Prior to me getting Dex 7+, he had some patients on MM CGMS and didn’t want patients to spend time & effort to get a CGMS due to all the problems his patients had with MM but after seeing how well Dex has been for me the Endo has more patients going for the Dex product.
Anywho… I agree, life as a Type 1 Diabetic is much better with Dex and I love not having to feel so dependent on others or having a fear of doing the same things non-diabetics enjoy. (It’s also nice NOT waking up in a pool of sweat or feeling like WTH happened and what am I doing here? what did I do while I wasn’t in my right state of mind? etc. after coming back to reality from a low blood sugar level.)
My Dex has been a godsend and I can second everyone’s fear of not using it now. I initially had 3 months of sensors sent to me but for some reason my distributor decided to mail my next shipment almost 4 months later. This almost left me without sensors over the Christmas Holidays. I spent hours on the phone trying to correct this because I just couldn’t see going without at a time that I knew my eating / everything else patterns would be strange. I wouldn’t want to live without my Dex now and fear a time that it might happen.
Actually, any sort of “National Health Care” single-payer plan would be about 95% sure to cover CGMS, because it’s FDA approved for exactly the conditions which we suffer from. The problems would be with using any medication in an “off-label” manner… And that’s a HUGE problem, because the best treatments for may conditions are “off label”.
Bravo for your husband, and you, taking charge and getting insurance which pays for treatments. (My own spends the premiums on Corporate jets; they own FOUR of them. WellPoint/Anthem. It was quite difficult to force them to cover CGMS, way back in 2006 and 2007.) And your Endo, too!