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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plantae" data-source="post: 2608001" data-attributes="member: 565464">It’s surprising how quickly I’ve come to depend on my CGM. My BSL pre and pos-prandial peaks and troughs happen at weird times (maybe because I take Creon) so finger pricks pre-meals and at 90 or 120 minutes after meals capture no where near the amount of information I’d like and looking at my CGM graphs I don’t think I could come up with a good schedule for finger pricks. My relatively high protein and fibre intake probably makes things harder to predict as well.Anyhow I have a diagnosed anxiety disorder which is medicated but the anxiety is always there in the background. I’m usually anxious about just about everything, but every time I change my sensor I’m super anxious because of (a) just changing the sensor in the first place, even though it’s easy; and (b) the readings for the first 8-16 hours, for me, are all over the place and I cannot rely on them even for a general trend (this is true for me for both the Dexcom G6 and Libre 2 but I don’t usually get nocturnal compression lows with the Dexcom which were another source of anxiety when I was using the Libre.)Although I spend most of my work in an office or at home these days I do still have to do field work in relatively remote areas collecting specimens, surveying etc. On these occasions I’d be super anxious without the CGM because the physical activity — crawling over logs, walking up hills, ducking under branches etc — can send me hypo pretty quickly. I know because my CGM alerts me. I’m basically hypo unaware and don’t usually feel much, if any, different at all. I’m not sure how I’d cope doing the field work knowing (since getting the CGM) that I can go hypo very quickly without doing anything particularly strenuous. I’m anxious doing it with the CGM</blockquote>

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