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03-25-2005, 06:08 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Savannah, GA USA
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New Product
DexCom G1 Continuous Glucose Monitor
Features a long-term implantable sensor half the size of a triple-A battery which is placed subcutaneously in the abdominal wall, where it measures glucose levels every 30 seconds and transmits the data wirelessly to a small receiver. Not available yet for sale. More information will be available at ADA in June.
I thought this was interesting. the other info I get on it says it's not for patient use though.
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03-25-2005, 06:12 AM
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Originally Posted by archimeech I thought this was interesting. the other info I get on it says it's not for patient use though. |
Cool, let's hook up a bunch of doctors to it, that would make a lot of sense!
"Hey doc, how do my blood sugars look?'
"Hmmmm...Not as good as mine were four seconds ago..."
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03-25-2005, 06:32 AM
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| | no, duck. sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. lol
It's not for private use by the patient, but for use by the pysicians on us. Like the CGMS from Minimed. you smarta$$. lmao 
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03-25-2005, 07:47 AM
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| | I am with duck about hooking up doctors in the trial phases.....I ask a doc once about checking his bs and he said he had done it once at his child's school for a bring your dad to school day..told me he didn't know how we did it all the time
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03-25-2005, 09:05 AM
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| | | I read a great article somewhere about this young kid I think around the age of 12. He was a diabetes educator at a medical school and made all the residents or last year students take their sugar 4 times a day and inject saline so that they knew what we went through as far as the MDI regimen. they all said it was eye opening.
__________________ The only way to manage diabetes is to CURE it... Diabetes since December, 1983 Meds: Humalog/Pump since 1998, Synthroid 88mcg, Zetia 10mg, Altace 10mg, Prevacid 30mg, Benfotiamine 600mg, 1-a-day multivitamin, Aspirin 325 mg, Garlic-geltab 4,000mg, methylcel. fiber therapy 2,000mg(for cholesterol) So, what's in your lunchbox?
Funding JDRF to get rid of diabetes is like funding the Mafia to get rid of organized crime
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04-16-2005, 03:09 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mid-West
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Originally Posted by archimeech New Product
DexCom G1 Continuous Glucose Monitor
Features a long-term implantable sensor half the size of a triple-A battery which is placed subcutaneously in the abdominal wall, where it measures glucose levels every 30 seconds and transmits the data wirelessly to a small receiver. Not available yet for sale. More information will be available at ADA in June.
I thought this was interesting. the other info I get on it says it's not for patient use though. | I'd sure wouldn't mind being a guinea pig on this trial. I think it would be really cool, should it work. My only concern will be that the surgeons will place the implantable piece properly in the abdomen wall so it doesn't become dislodged...Other than that, Hook me up! 
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04-16-2005, 03:59 PM
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| | | Now that sounds very cool! I dont know that I would need tests every 30 seconds, but hey, the more the merrier I guess. Why not every 10 seconds hmmm? Slackers!!
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04-17-2005, 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by archimeech I read a great article somewhere about this young kid I think around the age of 12. He was a diabetes educator at a medical school and made all the residents or last year students take their sugar 4 times a day and inject saline so that they knew what we went through as far as the MDI regimen. they all said it was eye opening. |
That is just sooo cool! I wish i could have seen those med students lol
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