BTW, I’d actually advise against letting it sit TOO long. You do have a limited return window. Some suppliers it’s only 15 days, some it’s 30. If you try it and really just flat out don’t like it, you want to be able to send back the parts you can for a refund.
Actually I have kinda accepted that I won’t just try it a couple days and return it. I think I have an obligation to give it a chance for at least a couple months.
Dexcom just works. I really think you’ll like it. After having a CGM from the company that starts with the same first letter as the Scottish play, I appreciate the Dexcom.
By the Scottish play, do you mean “Macbeth”?!
Aaaah! Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends!
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Congrats Brian! I hope it helps you and that you figure out what is going on at night. Mine shows me dropping low or even to flatline when I sleep… some of the time it is wrong but it has been right a few x lately as proved by 2-3 finger sticks. Which tells me I need a pump that shuts off or slows basal insulin prolly when I’m sleeping.
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Welcome to the world of DexCom users, Brian! I know the process you’ve been through feels odd, but I agree with the others who pointed out how amazing your endo is. After many years of being in a cookie-cutter system I feel lucky to have an Endo now that is willing to explore off-label options with me to help me do better.
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The title of this struck me as funny. In “Mystery Men,” a cult classic about superheroes who aren’t so super, The Blue Raj (Hank Azaria) has a mother who is played by Louise Lasser. One of the funniest lines of the movie is when his Mom sees incense smoke pouring from under his door.
Knock, Knock.
“Jeffrey, are you on the marijuana?”
For those of you too young, Louise Lasser was the title character of a 70s show (a parody of a soap opera) called “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.” One of the plots on the show was Mary Hartman experimenting with marijuana.
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Brian-
Welcome to the world of diabetes! Well, I know you’ve been at it for a long time and I know you are very comfortable where you’re at but my thinking here is we are not type 1 or type 2, we are people who have diabetes. Yes I understand the treatment may not always be the same, but the reality is each one of us needs a different treatment. There are many type 2’s using insulin and pumps, there are many type 1’s using meds designed for type 2. What makes me so unhappy is that insurance companies and yes some doctors, don’t get is that what works for one person will probably not work for the next.
So celebrate your diabetes insurance code and get the most out of whatever treat,EMT works for you. I will say the CGM was a game changer for me. While the pump was huge for a flexibility standpoint, the Dexcom was a life saver and I now know what is going on all the time. Huge weight off my shoulders and my family’s. Take your time and realize when you do fire it up, it won’t cure all your diabetes problems, but it will give you a new insight to what and why things are acting the way they are.
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Does it look like I have waxy yellow buildup?
Hi. I have the Dexcom 5. You should call the rep and schedule a one on one training session. They will do it at your doctors office or sometimes they will come to your home. It was very reassuring to have someone walk me thru it the first time.
I think for many people one-on-one training is a good way to start. But I am pretty good at these sorts of things and didn’t want to wait to try to get an appointment that fit my schedule. And Dexcom has a bunch of ways to do training including schedule interactive webinars, prerecorded training sessions and the dexcom even comes with a little USB drive with a training video. And of course you can always call them.
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