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<blockquote data-quote="iHs" data-source="post: 1362871" data-attributes="member: 8799"><p>Good luck with Dexcom. ...</p><p>I found that eating a lowish carb diet, enabled the G4 to be more stable than eating a lot of carb for the first few days to allow the sensor to bed in. To get the best out of cgm it needs to be used for about 2 to 3 weeks. Get yrself some Liftplus spray to remove the sensor adhesive from the skin as the sensor wire needs pulling out carefully. It'snot like an Inset. Also, gget some alcohol swabs to clean skin ok to remove shower gel residue and some liquid body glue or skintac to go underneath the sensor cradle to stop the wire from moving, and some 6x7 cm Tegaderm overlay (fold in half to cut out rectangle to go over transmitter) or use Opsite Flexifix. This should help to keep the sensor stuck ok for 3 to 4 weeks depending on where the sensor is inserted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iHs, post: 1362871, member: 8799"] Good luck with Dexcom. ... I found that eating a lowish carb diet, enabled the G4 to be more stable than eating a lot of carb for the first few days to allow the sensor to bed in. To get the best out of cgm it needs to be used for about 2 to 3 weeks. Get yrself some Liftplus spray to remove the sensor adhesive from the skin as the sensor wire needs pulling out carefully. It'snot like an Inset. Also, gget some alcohol swabs to clean skin ok to remove shower gel residue and some liquid body glue or skintac to go underneath the sensor cradle to stop the wire from moving, and some 6x7 cm Tegaderm overlay (fold in half to cut out rectangle to go over transmitter) or use Opsite Flexifix. This should help to keep the sensor stuck ok for 3 to 4 weeks depending on where the sensor is inserted. [/QUOTE]
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