My daughter uses the Dexcom G5 and has since March (1 month after diagnoses). My husband and I both work and having the notifications with the follow app are priceless. Also when we are out on a date the ability to loo at her number and how she is trending allows us to focus more on each other. We would lose both of those things if we switched to the Libre. The cost would be amazing on our finances (we buy Dex OOP until we hit our high deductible), but just not worth it to us in this stage of our life.
I have been using it in Ontario Canada for the past 3 weeks - LOVE THIS THING, holy crap. I don’t know how I lived without it. For me, it is awesome to get this information. It’s made a huge difference in understanding exactly what is going on with my diabetes. I’m sure you deacon folks have said the same thing. I’ve already been able to understand how certain foods affect me, how to better utilize the Extend bonus function based on actual meals, been able to fine tune my basils for the mystery morning highs - and it’s only been 3 weeks. Yes, I highly recommend this. It’s fairly inexpensive to get into and if I only use it a few times a year to re-adjus
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I really wanted to get the Freestyle like 8 years ago when I started out with diabetes.
Today I feel the Dexcom is necessary for the alarms. I am very stable most nights but over 8 years I’ve had unexpected sudden lows about 4 times all caught by the Dexcom. The downside is it has given me even more false alarms I have to ignore. I feel safer having the alarms when driving too.
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