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<blockquote data-quote="mentat" data-source="post: 611187" data-attributes="member: 86670"><p>Just my 2 cents... I have a Dexcom G4 (that integrates with my Animas Vibe pump) and although the sensors are approved to be used for one week, they sometimes give useful readings even into the 3rd week. (They noticeably deteriorate at some point but I wear most for 2 weeks and some for 3 weeks.) So, if you stretch out the sensors for a few weeks the annual price drops quite a bit. Plus, you don't need to wear it all the time; put one on whenever things are really out of control to help stabilise. I have never tried the Medtronic ones but I have HEARD they deteriorate more quickly. If you want to get the Dexcom G4, try to get an Animas Vibe.</p><p></p><p>By the way, pumps are FANTASTIC especially when your sugar does strange things. Three weeks ago all of a sudden I started having highs every evening long after dinner, and lows overnight. It took several days for me to work it out, but I realised that my dinner was digesting slower than usual so I set my pump to release insulin over a longer period (this is a "combo bolus" on Animas or "dual wave bolus" on Medtronic), and also set the pump to deliver less insulin in the middle of the night when I was going low. Bingo! Nice sugars again for two weeks. Then I started digesting dinner more quickly and stopped doing the combo bolus, but retained the new overnight delivery settings, and this seems to work quite well at the moment.</p><p></p><p>My advice: GET A PUMP. Spend a few weeks learning to use it then GET A CGM LOANED TO YOU AGAIN and use it to calibrate your overnight insulin delivery so that you don't have to go to bed high to avoid overnight lows. Hopefully you'll find some settings that will keep working for you indefinitely, but if things change, GET A CGM LOANED TO YOU AGAIN.</p><p></p><p>Chances are you'll be able to get blood sugars better than you've ever seen! Yes there will be a learning curve but your body will thank you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mentat, post: 611187, member: 86670"] Just my 2 cents... I have a Dexcom G4 (that integrates with my Animas Vibe pump) and although the sensors are approved to be used for one week, they sometimes give useful readings even into the 3rd week. (They noticeably deteriorate at some point but I wear most for 2 weeks and some for 3 weeks.) So, if you stretch out the sensors for a few weeks the annual price drops quite a bit. Plus, you don't need to wear it all the time; put one on whenever things are really out of control to help stabilise. I have never tried the Medtronic ones but I have HEARD they deteriorate more quickly. If you want to get the Dexcom G4, try to get an Animas Vibe. By the way, pumps are FANTASTIC especially when your sugar does strange things. Three weeks ago all of a sudden I started having highs every evening long after dinner, and lows overnight. It took several days for me to work it out, but I realised that my dinner was digesting slower than usual so I set my pump to release insulin over a longer period (this is a "combo bolus" on Animas or "dual wave bolus" on Medtronic), and also set the pump to deliver less insulin in the middle of the night when I was going low. Bingo! Nice sugars again for two weeks. Then I started digesting dinner more quickly and stopped doing the combo bolus, but retained the new overnight delivery settings, and this seems to work quite well at the moment. My advice: GET A PUMP. Spend a few weeks learning to use it then GET A CGM LOANED TO YOU AGAIN and use it to calibrate your overnight insulin delivery so that you don't have to go to bed high to avoid overnight lows. Hopefully you'll find some settings that will keep working for you indefinitely, but if things change, GET A CGM LOANED TO YOU AGAIN. Chances are you'll be able to get blood sugars better than you've ever seen! Yes there will be a learning curve but your body will thank you. [/QUOTE]
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