I was in the Glucowatch trial. I wore six of them on my arms for a few days (I looked like a terrorist). They gave me a free Glucowatch for my participation (it had been approved by the FDA by then). It never worked well. The first night it alarmed that my BG was low. It wasn’t (by finger stick test). I kept lowering the alarm level until it was 40, the lowest possible. Every ten minutes it would alarm, saying I was 40 when my BG was really about 95. I couldn’t change that 10 minute alarm time. Also, it wasn’t just irritation. I actually had slight burns. If you sweat too much (or not enough) it didn’t work. Good first try, maybe, but it really didn’t seem to work in the field.
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Thanks for a first-hand account of the Glucowatch, Michelle.