Scott:
Thank you very much! After I saw your email, I signed up for the plan. I printed my card from email and brought it into Sam's Club today for my strips. Didn't have a clue if it would work. I have a $60 co-pay and it turned into $15 because of this. I have private insurance. Very thrilling to save $45 per month!! Thanks!!
I love hearing about us helping each other. :)
OK, I will.
I changed the POD meter setting to 18, which was right spot on w/my contour meter in terms of numbers but now my CGM is off. I'm kind of going on how I feel..I tested all three meters and my CGM and they're all off. I know there's a variance 20% +/- but 137 - 147 vs. 80's..ugh. This just makes me nuts, ya know. I'm gonna use the 18 code on my Pod meter and go with that and recalibrate CGM with it. If it feels off then I'll check on my other meters. Not sure what to do here.
Thanks for all the replies, very helpful.
me too, TracySue...it's fantastic! :)
Mine does too! I get 600/month and still pay out of pocket for some. I test a LOT, because my insulin needs vary so much day-to-day
thanks again for the link to Helmut's thread. Very helpful. I think I'm too chicken to roll the dice and mess with the coding.
You have to calibrate the CGM consistently: it "remembers" past calibrations.
If you start calibrating one sensor with a meter, use only it to calibrate as long as the sensor lasts, and do not change keycode.
Otherwise the CGM cannot understand what BG its signal refers to.
After that, you can compare meters and CGM.
But if the meter used to calibrate the CGM has for example a fixed offset the CGM readings will have the same offset.
Wil Dubois on diabetesmine.com has an interesting experience to tell http://www.diabetesmine.com/2013/05/ask-dmine-the-next-wrong-thing.html
haha “irritationopathy”
Hey Kate,
So, as you requested, I had my blood work drawn on Monday, BG (lab test) was 137 my PDM w/code set to 17 said 149, so I'm going to stay with the 16 code on PDM - Freestyle. My A1C was 6.3%,better then what I expected as I thought it would be higher compared to what my contour carelink meter was reading and the fact I've been new to Pump, on and off.
Yep. "Test every half hour for now" (reading off the prescription label); BCBSO had a little bit of a problem with that, but I do sleep so I don't average much more than 10 a day, and I don't reorder until the supply drops below about 500 (a couple of months.)
As of this moment Oregon is actually paying for all test strips, as regular diabetic supplies. I guess come 2014 I'm going to have to deal with the real government of this country so maybe that will change...
Thanks for posting this! Setting mine back to 16.
Thanks, Sarah!
We just got back from our training on the Omnipod. My DD goes live Tuesday. We also are getting lower numbers on the meter built into the Omnipod than we do on the onetouch mini, which we’ve been using since dx. I will play with it tomorrow to try the different codes. For us the two meters have been about 20 points apart on average. It’s enough, that the bolus calculator in the Omnipod would want us to give her carbs and a reverse correction before many meals. She’s often in the 80s before lunch, which means the Omnipod meter says she’s in the 60’s and it won’t bolus for the full meal. Obviously we don’t want to inadvertently constantly run her high! She feels her lows (she’s six) and the threshold for feeling them is consistent with the onetouch mini, she usually starts to feel them below 70. Several times the Omnipod has reported her as low, and she’s felt fine.
Also, to the OP, I love hedgehogs! We have a pet hedgehog, great avatar!
thanks for sharing! my meters had a disparity of up to 100 mg/dL. I’ve just been using the freestyle meter.
I want a hedgehog so bad, but I was worried when I read they don’t have a long life expectancy. I think I wouldn’t recover!