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<blockquote data-quote="donnellysdogs" data-source="post: 343376" data-attributes="member: 17713"><p>Have spoken to another cgm user from same hospital, but wont disclose fully the conversation as this forum open to everyone...</p><p></p><p>However, after speaking to person I know we have 2 huge differences in personality. I am anal about accuracy and costs to NHS... So wheras I report differences and get really wound up by them.. The ither user just changes the sensor ... The other user says 3(!!!!) were used last week.....now I get wound up by one sensor being inaccurate, let alone a 2nd and then doing a 3rd in a week...</p><p>I worry about costs to NHS and utmost is that unless these faults are fed back to the Company,NHS and MRSA this Company supplying the Navigators will never improve their products.</p><p></p><p>I spoke to Abbott ref inaccuracies at night on Navigator compared to the blood. The girl I spoke to stated that unless I got up and washed my hands each time I trsted my blood during the night that the results would be inaccurate and invalid to compare to the cgm. Now, I am sorry... I wash begore going to bed, i wash thoroughly with cleaning teeth etc. i test last thing before sleeping, and can further test another 3 times during the night... I have never got up and washed my hands unless I had a wee.....I have never been told to by any HCP.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, tomorrow I am going to try the Abbott Navigator again and try to be less anal.</p><p></p><p>The other cgm user does not record anything in blood diaries and only tests blood on the 5 set up blood tests. So to make it work for me I will have to abandon sone aspects and my morals will have to become less.</p><p></p><p>It is a good guide for daytime use 80% of the time and as the readings are always less than blood then they can give realisation back even more so to users of hypos and hypers...</p><p>I.e now I know that when I get a headache my levels on cgm will be showing as 8-9 .. On blood they will be 11.</p><p></p><p>The other user does not have any record book to record any details in, so the HCP's do not look at this, like they did mine. So I am going to stop recording my levels.</p><p></p><p>So I will see how the next 5 days go. One thing is for sure with the other user using 3 in a week and ne going to be less anal the costs to nhs will go up. </p><p></p><p>I get staggered at how good other cgms are getting 14 days.. When the Abbott Navigator barely gets 5 on a good sensor!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donnellysdogs, post: 343376, member: 17713"] Have spoken to another cgm user from same hospital, but wont disclose fully the conversation as this forum open to everyone... However, after speaking to person I know we have 2 huge differences in personality. I am anal about accuracy and costs to NHS... So wheras I report differences and get really wound up by them.. The ither user just changes the sensor ... The other user says 3(!!!!) were used last week.....now I get wound up by one sensor being inaccurate, let alone a 2nd and then doing a 3rd in a week... I worry about costs to NHS and utmost is that unless these faults are fed back to the Company,NHS and MRSA this Company supplying the Navigators will never improve their products. I spoke to Abbott ref inaccuracies at night on Navigator compared to the blood. The girl I spoke to stated that unless I got up and washed my hands each time I trsted my blood during the night that the results would be inaccurate and invalid to compare to the cgm. Now, I am sorry... I wash begore going to bed, i wash thoroughly with cleaning teeth etc. i test last thing before sleeping, and can further test another 3 times during the night... I have never got up and washed my hands unless I had a wee.....I have never been told to by any HCP. Anyway, tomorrow I am going to try the Abbott Navigator again and try to be less anal. The other cgm user does not record anything in blood diaries and only tests blood on the 5 set up blood tests. So to make it work for me I will have to abandon sone aspects and my morals will have to become less. It is a good guide for daytime use 80% of the time and as the readings are always less than blood then they can give realisation back even more so to users of hypos and hypers... I.e now I know that when I get a headache my levels on cgm will be showing as 8-9 .. On blood they will be 11. The other user does not have any record book to record any details in, so the HCP's do not look at this, like they did mine. So I am going to stop recording my levels. So I will see how the next 5 days go. One thing is for sure with the other user using 3 in a week and ne going to be less anal the costs to nhs will go up. I get staggered at how good other cgms are getting 14 days.. When the Abbott Navigator barely gets 5 on a good sensor!! [/QUOTE]
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