Well, yesterday I met with my diabetes educator and the medtronic rep from Albany AND I am now hooked up to the CGM. It seems to be working fine thus far. I have the low alarm set for 90 at present for a few reasons. One - I am very, very hypounaware. I really don't feel low until my BS drops into the 30s. There have been many episodes where I have not been able to treat myself and thank god for my husband. Then after treatment, the BS skyrockets up into the 200s because of the treatment and the old liver rebound. The hope is that the CGM will alert me on the way down and I can catch it before it bottoms out. Two - There is a 20% chance of variance in the reading from a finger stick and the r3eading from the monitor. This can be either lower or higher. So my DE wants to make sure that the low glucose alarm on my pump is set high at first to make sure i catch myself if I am on the way down.
The really neat thing about the sensor is that it can be uploaded onto the medtronic care link and then you can get lots of good info - trends, daily or weekly glucose graphs, insulin basals and boluses, etc.
This is a really big relief to me because I am now not so concerned that I will slip into a bad low and if my husband is not around, i will not be able to help myself.
So, YIPEE!!!!!
