To: Red Badger
They’ll be no more “AAAAAAAAAH!”
2 posted on
07/26/2021 12:16:35 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
Coming to the Apple Watch in the future, I predict.
To: Red Badger
You still have to insert a small needle into your arm for the tester - but it just stays there for a couple of weeks until you switch it out.
4 posted on
07/26/2021 12:25:02 PM PDT by
Skywise
To: Red Badger
“No more finger pricks”? For an exciting few seconds I thought this was about the 25th amendment being invoked.
5 posted on
07/26/2021 12:26:27 PM PDT by
glennaro
(Dennis Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never")
To: Red Badger
A friend just showed me his system the other day.
Skin patch monitor gets replaced every 2 weeks (I think) and he wore a receiver on his belt.
To: Red Badger
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is done with a data transmitter with a small sensor that sticks into the skin. Glucose readings are taken evey few minutes and can be transmitted to an insulin pump. The transmitter and sensor need to be changed every 10 days.
However, CGM glucose readings need to be calibrated twice a day using a standard glucose meter and test strip with blood taken from a skin prick.
To: Red Badger
CGM is the next wave. Products are before the FDA now that will only need to be changed every 90 and then 180 days. Big news for diabetes sufferers.
To: Red Badger
What happens to the data?
9 posted on
07/26/2021 1:04:40 PM PDT by
Adder
("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
To: Red Badger
My diabetic cat has a Freestyle Libre implanted.
getting a two week glucose curve, he actually looks really good number wise.
Whop knows maybe in a few months he will go into remission.
12 posted on
07/26/2021 1:28:12 PM PDT by
TexasM1A
To: Red Badger
Industrial process control engineers (I were one) talk about "granularity". The more frequently you measure the output, the better you can control the process, be it papermaking or machining engine blocks. I'd love to put an end to fingersticks, (I do 5 or 6 a day) but so far this is NOT a mature technology. (I've been watching it closely.) Correlation to the fingerstick sensors is poor. Give it time....but I'm not going to rush out and buy one.
To: Red Badger
I believe it requires an implanted chip to work . . . if so, NO!
18 posted on
07/26/2021 3:55:19 PM PDT by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: Red Badger
I talked my husband into trying the Freestyle Libre after seeing an ad for it
That was over a year ago.
We were able to an outside Dr. to prescribe it and now the VA provides it (free for him) by mail.
He uses an app on his phone to read the sensor.
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