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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 2098681" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>You get a reading every 5 mins on a graph, so you can look at the way the graph is trending, and then make a judgment call on whether to just leave it alone, or step in and nudge it down with 1 or 2u, or nudge up with a dextrotab.</p><p></p><p>Cgm is a very powerful tool in managing T1, but it's not plug-and-play, sticking any sort of cgm on won't suddenly level bg out overnight, you need to learn how to use it, if you've got a kindle handy, there's a couple of books which explain it:</p><p></p><p>Sugar Surfing, Stephen Ponder</p><p></p><p>Beyond Fingersticks.., William Lee Dubois</p><p></p><p>When I started with cgm, my bg was all over the place, and I got a bit narked off about why is this not working, but I spent time learning how to read the traces, and slowly but surely I started knocking out 90 to 100% in range like the pic below. This takes time - you'll see a lot of things on cgm which you don't like, but then you'll start figuring out ways to sort them.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]34426[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 2098681, member: 374531"] You get a reading every 5 mins on a graph, so you can look at the way the graph is trending, and then make a judgment call on whether to just leave it alone, or step in and nudge it down with 1 or 2u, or nudge up with a dextrotab. Cgm is a very powerful tool in managing T1, but it's not plug-and-play, sticking any sort of cgm on won't suddenly level bg out overnight, you need to learn how to use it, if you've got a kindle handy, there's a couple of books which explain it: Sugar Surfing, Stephen Ponder Beyond Fingersticks.., William Lee Dubois When I started with cgm, my bg was all over the place, and I got a bit narked off about why is this not working, but I spent time learning how to read the traces, and slowly but surely I started knocking out 90 to 100% in range like the pic below. This takes time - you'll see a lot of things on cgm which you don't like, but then you'll start figuring out ways to sort them. [ATTACH=full]34426[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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