Recently US Med has included KT patches for Dexcom with my orders. I have not used these. I currently use Dexcom over patches which are wonderful. I cannot imagine these KT Patches working very well. Does anyone have any experience?
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Thanks for the info. I have a lot of KT tape in my house for the typical purposes, but I don’t see any use for it with my Dexcom. I will hang onto it for now.
I use Tegaderm (leftover from before switching Medtronics Guardian sensor to G6) to seal around the “cut out”. I’ll only use Not Just a Patch after last of the patches with the “cut out” are used up.
Have you tried Dexcom over patches? They are superior to anything else I tried. Dexcom will send 10 at a time, no charge.
My diabetes supplies, including Dexcom sensors, come direct from the local Veterans Administration medical center. So Dexcom will not send their over patches. I prefer the Not Just a Patch over patches. Not having the cutout keeps water out without any additional taping. Skin Tac solved my problem with the edges rolling up.
Sounds good.
I pretty much exclusively use kinesiology tape overpatches, since I can’t get Dexcom to ship me the free ones and I’m too cheap to buy them. It works really well.
I got a roll from the grocery store several years ago and it’s still going strong. I just cut my own overpatches out of the tape. I’ve got a 3d printed template now that helps, but at first I was just tracing the transmitter housing that I ripped off an old sensor. My tape came in long pre-cut strips, but I can get 3 overpatches cut from 1 strip
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Good idea.