Cgms

[Brian23]

Tomorrow I get my continuous glucose monitoring system "installed" in me. How do they do this? What does it do, how does it work. What will this tell the drs.

[solox316]

I am guessing you mean a Real Time CGMS? As a clinical source of data, or a new tool you will use all the time?

The CGMS will give you real time glucose readings every 5 minutes. Displayed either on its own receiver, or on a Minimed Paradigm x22 series pump. It is inserted in you abdomen (or other sites) like a pump infusion site and talks to its receiver wirelessly.

When working correctly it can give you good information about how foods affect you, bolus ratios, basals, etc...

There are a handful of threads on CGMS that would tell you considerably more, as well as many websites out there for more info.

Hope that gives you a good start, and is what you were looking for...