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Experience with CGMS
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In the middle of the year 2004 my diabetologist suggested to me to find
the reason for some fluctuation with my blood glucose with the aid of the CGMS.
One of the problems I had was that at night, 3 hours after my last meal of the day, I went to sleep with a blood sugar of 7 mmol/l (136mg/dl) and in the morning I awoke with 13 mmol/l. We supposed that this was due to a nocturnal hypoglycemia.
Dr. Otterstein provided me with an application for my health insurance because the measure unit of 3 days was not included in the normal catalogue of services.
Without my knowledge they had granted my application and sent it back to the doctor.
Now it was time to make an appointment to apply the gadget.
The tricky ,but of course logical, thing was that both appointments had to be 3 days apart.
And so I had to see the doctor ,in a week that was itself stressful enough, just before I went to work.
On the 2nd of november in 2004 the gadget was put in. In a short instruction session I was told which events I had to feed this machine: meal, insulin, sport, low blood glucose . Strange thing was that the gadget was also able to save other "events".
These events had to be given as accurate as possible as they also appeared in the analysis.
The second thing to follow was to submit at least 4 results from my usual blood sugar meter to the new gadget.
The difficulty with this was that the gadget only accepts mg/dl but this at least improved my skills in mental arithmetics.
When the instruction was over the sensor was adjusted in an angle of 45 degrees.
For me as a diabetic who was carrying a pump but does not like 45 degree catheters (as a consequence of bad experiences) this was a little bit disturbing.
The catheter was a very expensive one and so it was secured with a special kind of tape so it wouldn't get lost (see picture 2)..
Concerning the pump a thing to mention is that it felt strange to have two gadgets while sleeping. The new catheter was distinclty shorter than the D-Tron plus I was used to. This caused some bothering.
If you think you can read off the blood sugar level whenever you want to, I have to disappoint you. Only the analysis of your doctor will show how the blood sugar levels have developed.
If you have any questions on this topic, please mail me! |
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