Everyone here is so engaged in their T1 mgt, that I thought I would get your takes on the Apple Watch with Dexcom capability. I don’t want a n integrated CGM-pump. I like my receiver and pump separate. Often the pump is somewhat inaccessible and having the receiver in my purse allows me to readily access the CGM when I get an alert, and then decide if I am gonna leave the room to access my pump.
So, I saw someone (my Tandem rep) with her Apple Watch and I am somewhat intrigued. I have the Dexcom G4m I 'spose I would have to upgrade to the one with blue tooth ability?
I use the Dexcom G4 CGM with my iPhone and Apple Watch 1. I believe you must have an iPhone to make it work. I love being able to look at my watch for my BG, especially in situations like when I’m driving.
rg, I guess that makes the decision for me. We have android phones and I can’t afford to swirtch everything out. I don’t use any data sharing of my bg’s - I am an adult and it is only my business so I wouldn’t want to go whole hog on a new phone/watch etc system. Thanks for letting me know
U’d have to go Apple on everything - and my work computer, phone etc is android. Oh well. As things stand, the separate receiver and pump system works very very well for me.
Funny on MyGlu the question of the day was about tips and tricks and I learned that there can be false low alerts due to compression on the transmitter site. I figure that’s no big deal. I would rather get false alerts occasionally than not have CGM!
Do you have Dexcom G4 or G4+share? If you have G4+share, as @Dave26 mentioned, there is a community sourced app, and many different watches available for Android. Having bg displayed on a watch (a pebble in my case) has been almost as much of a game changer for me as CGM itself.
I don’t have the Dexcom with share. I hate my smart phone (it is a smarter than me phone and I am still in rebellion from being on call- usually getting called in at 2:00 am)
If you have the plain G4 (no share), you are out of luck for using phone or watches unless you build yourself a wireless bridge and use xDrip software. This is a DYI thing and not a Dexcom product so is only suitable for those wanting to experiment.
This is what I use to get the info on my smart phone and I love the features of the user interface. My Pebble 2 is supposed to be delivered tomorrow so hopefully tomorrow night I will be seeing my BG on my watch.
The power in the solar microwave flux is far greater than the power of the miniscule bluetooth transmitter in the apple watch, smartphones, or any other bluetooth device. If BT emissions were going to cause a problem, we’d all be dying from all the microwave exposure we get from the sun just walking around outside.
The article in the NYT that you refer to that was retracted was so because it was full of bat guano. I’ve read it.
People have been trying for decades to connect EM radiation, at various frequencies, to health damage. It’s easy to fool the general public in this, because to most people, radio “waves”, microwaves, and other fancy sciency-sounding names for these things give them an exotic feel.
Yet, it is ALL just electromagnetic radiation – photons. ALL OF IT. Radio, x-rays, light, IR, UV, and a ton of other stuff. Life on this planet is bathed in roughly a 1000 watts / square meter of broad-spectrum electromagnetic radiation, all the time, for billions of years.
There is no conspiracy keeping information about how dangerous cell phones are from the public. They simply aren’t dangerous EM sources.
I’m also using the Android xdrip+ on my Sony smartwatch. It is standalone mode so I can track my BGs even without having my Android phone. Upon reconnecting to my phone, my BGs are synced. I agree with @Dragan1 that the ability to track my glucose on my watch especially in standalone, has been almost as liberating as the cgm itself.
The apple watch/iphone capabilities for the Dexcom G5 was a complete game changer for me. The ability to carry one less device, and have such easy access to my numbers has been huge. The Apple Watch has been VERY helpful for my world. I can’t always look at my cellphone at work, but it is acceptable to look at my watch to see my numbers. Also, when I ride my horses, I put my phone on the ledge of the arena(or if I am at a horse show, my trainer can hold my phone through warm up and the class), and I can keep up with my numbers as I ride.
You are posting to a community with many members using insulin pumps, CGMs, cell phones, and other devices that wirelessly communicate with low power radio frequencies. If you want to assert claims of health hazards of these devices, post direct links to authoritative sources and studies that support your assertions. Authoritative sources include studies that are posted to peer reviewed and respected medical journals.
Citing Individuals with credentials is not good enough. Please cite respected studies that have undergone the rigors of skeptical peer review.
I have to say, there has been a great deal of work looking at the effect of ElectroMagnetic (EM) radiation on people. Some studies seem to show some effect from power lines or cell phones. But these aren’t strong effects and there are just as many studies showing no connection. And we do know that certain frequency ranges (like X-Ray) can over time cause damage and cancer. But all the research regarding cell phones I have seen to this day can only suggest “maybe” or “possibly” and given the number of cell phone users in the world you have to ask. With billions of person-years of cell phone use under our belts, If there was any strong connection then we would have observed some measurable increase in effects. There just isn’t evidence of any strong and causal connection and to argue otherwise at this time is not warranted. If you personally wish to adopt a different understanding of the science and avoid the Apple Watch that is of course your choice.
ps. And you don’t look at the science by poking around in pubmed for individual small association studies to provide your hypothesis. You look at large high quality (randomized controlled intervention studies are best) and consider all the evidence.
As for me, I loves my Apple Watch and iPhone and MacAir laptop (which I use directly on my lap in the evening😅) and I’ll takes my chances. Although I suspect I am exposing myself to significantly more risk by simply getting into my car 6 days a week for the eleven-minute drive to my office. Call me a reckless thrill-seeker…
[quote=“david34, post:16, topic:57178, full:true”]My daughter has diabetes and i measured the low frequency pulse from the battery in her pump and every 5 seconds it measured 5 milligauss. That is somewhat high.
[/quote]David, I’m not going to bother checking your website, as anyone with a basic physics understanding can see that what you just wrote above is meaningless gibberish.
Do you even know what “gauss” is a measure of? Do you have any understanding of the relationship between what gauss measures, and what microwaves constitute as a physical phenomena?
Do you realize that gauss have nothing to do with microwaves?
To other readers: Please ignore this stuff being posted here. It is the same as perpetual motion machines, energy from plain water and a host of other pseudo-science misinformation.
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