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Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

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Post by imtringued »

chx wrote: post #39

I had some ideas on how unreliable all nutrition research is but nothing prepared for the flood of bad advice once I was diagnosed with diabetes T2. I now trust one thing and one thing alone and that's my Dexcom G6. If it shows a spike eating the same meal twice , that meal is off the list. That easy. I deleted normal flour, potatoes and rice from my life and per three month blood checks I do not even count as predia…

What? It is pretty well established that continuous glucose monitoring is the go to method for avoiding potentially invasive diabetes and heart related surgery.

Diabetes, obesity and heart disease are often caused by excessive amounts of glucose in the bloodstream which causes your body to react to this emergency by spiking insulin which crams all the glucose into your fat cells and if those are full into your muscle and organ cells. At some point there will be inflammation in your blood veins which leads to plaque blocking the blood stream. That's when your heart will struggle to pump blood through your body.

Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

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Post by mbubb »

Are these devices (Free Style Libre) safe for contact sports? I wanted to wear one and even got a scrip for one as i am pre-diabetic. I do BJJ 4x a week and am concerned about the device on the arm getting dislodged or broken. I thought about neoprene arm sleeve, etc.

Anyone have experience with contact sports and such devices?

Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

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Post by petepete »

mbubb wrote: post #52

Are these devices (Free Style Libre) safe for contact sports? I wanted to wear one and even got a scrip for one as i am pre-diabetic. I do BJJ 4x a week and am concerned about the device on the arm getting dislodged or broken. I thought about neoprene arm sleeve, etc. Anyone have experience with contact sports and such devices?

I don't think it'd stand up to bjj I've dislodged one or two of mine (over three years) by knocking or catching it on things without great force.

For non-contact sports (football) mine have been fine though.

Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

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Post by NhanH »

jawngee wrote: post #45
hooande wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I HATE the Freestyle Libre. The concept of continuous glucose monitoring is life saving, but this particular product is very very bad. The hardware design is awful. I've received 9 of them and 5 have broken before their expiration date, for a variety of reasons. Two of them broke immediately at first application. Glucose monitors in general are expensive ($100+ retail) products that are meant to be disposable every t…

We've found them to be pretty reliable here. They tend to lose accuracy for extreme highs and lows, but when it's within 80-250 it's pretty spot on with our blood meter. xDrip also has a feature that will calibrate the libre with pokes which increases the accuracy. We never bolus off the libre's readings though, but it's fantastic for trends and seeing spikes and crashes in real-time. For example, I can see that my s…

Where do you get the MiaoMiao transmitter in Vietnam? I need to get one for my dad (thanks to your comment), but my google-fu didn't work out for it.

Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

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Post by petepete »

hooande wrote: post #40
jawngee wrote: post #7

My son does something similar. In Vietnam, only the Freestyle Libre 1 is available, so we got the aftermarket MiaoMiao transmitter for it. The transmitter talks to an iPhone running xDripForiOS ( https://github.com/JohanDegraeve/xdripswift ) which, in turn, pushes the CGM data to nightscout ( https://nightscout.github.io ). We can then follow that data on nightscout using xdrip on our own phones. It's been a real lif…

I HATE the Freestyle Libre. The concept of continuous glucose monitoring is life saving, but this particular product is very very bad. The hardware design is awful. I've received 9 of them and 5 have broken before their expiration date, for a variety of reasons. Two of them broke immediately at first application. Glucose monitors in general are expensive ($100+ retail) products that are meant to be disposable every t…

I've been on my Freestyle Libre for about 3 years. Over that time I've had 2 fail when applied and a couple fall off when caught or knocked.

Overall I'm impressed but there's quite a lot of waste, I'd love a reusable applicator.

Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

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Post by rsaxvc »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #25
boringg wrote: post #5

Sounds cool if i didn't have to have micro needles in my arm. Anyone wear one of these things? I figure it useful for a month then after that you have a sense on what impacts your glucose…

I had an IV needle stuck in my arm for a couple days when I had appendicitis. If it weren't for the tube hanging off it, I would have hardly known it was there. I barely felt it going in, either. I'm quite sure a CGM is even less obtrusive.

IV needle or IV catheter?

Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

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Post by mft_ »

chx wrote: post #39

I had some ideas on how unreliable all nutrition research is but nothing prepared for the flood of bad advice once I was diagnosed with diabetes T2. I now trust one thing and one thing alone and that's my Dexcom G6. If it shows a spike eating the same meal twice , that meal is off the list. That easy. I deleted normal flour, potatoes and rice from my life and per three month blood checks I do not even count as predia…

Total tangent, but having moved to Germany from the UK, one thing I can’t find is (what in the UK we’d call) granary or seeded bread. The Germans have lots of lovely bread… but even the dark brown stuff is very smooth with (I assume) refined flour and no major seed/grain content. This might explain your blood sugar spike from brown bread?

Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

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Post by cbames89 »

nostrebored wrote: post #26
e1g wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got mine from Levels. They use the same sensor as mentioned in the article, and wrap it with their own app. Very easy to deal with. They are trying to limit demand so you need an invite code, but you can find one on Google in 5 minutes. [1] https://www.levelshealth.com/

If you don’t want to deal with bizarre growth decisions just go with Veri. Same idea, no weird fencing.

Using Android, Veri doesn't support Android yet.

Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

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Post by buzzwordninja »

mft_ wrote: post #57
chx wrote: post #39

I had some ideas on how unreliable all nutrition research is but nothing prepared for the flood of bad advice once I was diagnosed with diabetes T2. I now trust one thing and one thing alone and that's my Dexcom G6. If it shows a spike eating the same meal twice , that meal is off the list. That easy. I deleted normal flour, potatoes and rice from my life and per three month blood checks I do not even count as predia…

Total tangent, but having moved to Germany from the UK, one thing I can’t find is (what in the UK we’d call) granary or seeded bread. The Germans have lots of lovely bread… but even the dark brown stuff is very smooth with (I assume) refined flour and no major seed/grain content. This might explain your blood sugar spike from brown bread?

Try looking in Polish shop for that kind of bread.

Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch

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Post by paulcole »

j7ake wrote: post #23

Where does one buy these glucose monitors ? Do you need to get it prescribed by doctors ? Or can healthy people get one too ?

> Or can healthy people get one too ?

This is quite insensitive. I am a person with T1D. It doesn’t mean I’m unhealthy.

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