Hi all. I just inserted my second dexcom sensor and I have a spot of blood where the needle went in. Is this gonna be an issue? I don’t want to trash the sensor and this is not something that was covered in my ‘training’.
perfectly normal. I wouldn’t worry about it at all unless you have prolonged pain.
thank you. Was a little worried about losing the sensor.
I usually have a tiny amount of bleeding, and other day I even had quite a bit more than usual! It pooled up in the plastic part and my husband just soaked it up with tissue to keep it from running down my arm. For about 18 hours it was crazy inaccurate and my arm was a little sore. After that it was normal and the pain was gone. Just had to wait a little bit!
Yeah it is semi-normal Dont sweat it
Sometimes blood at the site foretells a bad sensor session and sometimes it doesn’t seem to matter. If I end up with inaccuracy and jumpy readings for more than 24 hours, then I pull it. Dexcom will replace if you report it to them.