Should Dexcom G5 Users Still Rely on Finger Sticks? The Dexcom G5 Mobile continuous glucose monitoring system has been FDA approved to allow users to make treatment decisions based on the system without checking with a finger stick first Many users have jumped at this freedom from extra finger-sticks aside from the morning and night calibration checks Others are not willing to chance Dexcom’s accuracy against their meter and do a finger
diaTribe Reviews Meal Memory -- New App for Tracking Your Diet Dexcom Share posts to Apple’s Health app with a three-hour delay, so the two-hour post-meal glucose value actually appears in Meal Memory five hours later This delay will hopefully improve over time
Comments on: Libre vs. Dexcom: A Diabetes Educator’s Experience Helping people thrive! Comments on: Libre vs Dexcom: A Diabetes Educator’s Experience I like that you mention how you can check the Dexcom app to monitor the trends of your blood glucose throughout the day This would be useful to ensure you're able to monitor your blood at all times
Comments on: Medicare’s Smartphone Restriction of Dexcom G5 Hurts Patients I (T1D) have been on a Tandem Tslim X2 and Dexcom G5 and was living happily ever after until being forced onto Medicare My pump supplies are covered and after jumping thru 37 hoops and promising to abide by and prove 5 finger sticks a day and using ONLY the Dexcom receiver Medicare will agree to pay for my sensors
Comments on: Should Dexcom G5 Users Still Rely on Finger Sticks? Helping people thrive! Comments on: Should Dexcom G5 Users Still Rely on Finger Sticks? I have been using a Dexcom since early 2010 and have always tested about 7 times a day Statistically, the more data one has the easier it is to make a decision