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All I have after reading your post is more questions. I was not aware that the Minimed 670 is approved & available. The Minimed 640 is available in (parts of?) Europe and Australia, but I thought the 670 was still undergoing clinical trials. Have you had any experience using CGM? My experience...

If you have to pay for the Medtronic CGM, then all the more reason to make sure you get your money's worth when you use it! With the Enlites I use in the US, there is 180 days between the date of manufacturer on the box and the day the sensors are as dead to Medtronic (aka the expiration date)...

The only caveat I would add is that CGM does not work well for everyone. Hence my use of the phrase "if CGM works for you". Unfortunately the only way that occurs to me to find out is actually try it and live with it for at least a week or six. If you do decide to try CGM, I always...

o_O If CGM for you actually was "great" then why not wear it all the time? Your claim that the only accurate source is a BG meter contrasts with the experience of a lot of folks who find their CGM & BG meter results are quite close. And wouldn't you do a BG test anyway before acting on your...

Just to clarify, which of the two below are you saying ... Are you using the 640G pump without the CGM and you're (very?) satisfied with the results? or Are you using the 640G with the CGM and you're (very?) satisfied with how both the pump and the CGM have been working for you? Or is there...

How does that Mark Twain quote go? "There are three kinds of lies. Lies. Damned lies. And press releases!" ;)

Because how well one "gets along" with a CGM system can vary one heck of lot from one person to another, limiting your initial commitment by arranging some sort of a trial run is definitely the approach I would recommend to everyone. Unfortunately, the companies would probably prefer everyone...

While some things are probably share, using an insulin pump tends to also depend one heck of a lot on a person's personal preferences and also how their body responds to insulin. If you want some suggestions, why not tell folks a little more about yourself such as which insulin pump you are...

Yes, you don't want your administration details to somehow imply that only T1s use the pump. There are also T2s who use it.

The only way I know of ... other than suddenly going hypo and falling over ... to tell whether or not your Lantus is still having "some effect" is to test your BG. (Well, if you had a CGM which worked well for you, that would be another way, but those are still as rare as pumps used to be, I...

Since I had never heard of these before, I wondered what was in them, especially since their claim is "no alcohol, fragrance or other disinfectants to interfere with your Blood Glucose Testing". It appears that they are just a "solution of water and 0.9% Sodium Chloride". Uh, saline solution...

While I never, ever had any reservations about hooking myself up to a pump :eek: ... well, at least none that I remember 19 years after starting ... I am often puzzled by some of the concerns which people new to pumping seem to have. It's as though, for them, pumps are very fragile things...

Have you ever used CGM before or would this be the first time you would be trying it?

If you BG is pretty much in the normal range and you don't have "a lot" of active insulin pending which might unexpectedly drag you low, then why not just "Super Bolus" the next hour or so of basal before disconnecting? That should help avoid an elevated BG from the suspended basal delivery...

I have seen concerns about contamination posted before. Beats the heck out of me. I think the most important thing is to dilute/remove any possible type of interference. I would not trust "licking" my fingers simply because the purpose of the enzymes in saliva is to reduce more complex carbs...

Opinion. Evidence beyond merely anecdotal might be out there, but I lack the patience to dig it out. How much this matters really depends on what washing your hands might change from the perspective of the BG test. I realize that's not a very useful answer but that's the central point as I have...

Yes, I understand all of what you mentioned in your note. What is (still) not clear to me is precisely what you are thinking of when you talk about a reset. Because you have not mentioned any other way of resetting a Dexcom I am assuming you have been referring to the 7 day receiver reset your...

I am afraid I am not understanding this. Could you elaborate on what you mean by a "reset" of the transmitter. :confused: I assume you have already tried telling the Dexcom monitor that it's working with "new" stuff, yes? How did that go? Or is there some other type of transmitter "reset" you...

Really too little information to feel comfortable making any suggestions. Questions which come to mind are things like your daughter's ~age, how long these unexpected BGs have been persisting, if it is only basals or (as I would expect) it also happens with her meal/corrective bolus? Why did you...

So ... any idea what details are supposedly in your email inbox that you are supposed to check for? :confused: