Well, after a long hiatus from the big needle of the continuous glucose monitor, we're back on as of last night. We've had a bit of a sugar battle with Cadence over the last couple weeks, she seems to be growing and eating quite a bit more, thus her sugars have been a bit more variable of late. She's funny though, certainly a product of her parents, go-go-go...EAT and so forth. So we popped the Dexcom into her yesterday, the insertion of that device is SOOOOO MUCH BETTER than the Minimed product, it was over in a matter of seconds and she was unbothered by it for the most part. The one thing about Dexcom is that the blood sugar values that it spits out seem to be a bit more accurate than the minimed. I just wish it had the proper units on there and some rate of change arrows, that would be awesome.
So, we're going to do some basal testing (as much as can be done with a ravenous toddler), and watch the sugars rise and fall over the week and make some changes. It's amazing though, prior to having the CGM in her, we just corrected or bolused, checked blood sugar every hour or so and just let the chips fall where they may (with great success I might add). Now that we have the CGM data in front of us it's addicting to see it change through the day. :)
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