[Diabetes-Talk] DXCom G5 First Time User

[Jamie Gurganus]

Hi Daniel! I have been using the Dexcom for almost 4 years now, and it has made an incredible difference in how I manage my diabetes. I was having problems recognizing low blood sugar's, and it keeps me from going to low now. I started with the G4, which was totally an accessible for me as a blind person. My kids had to help me enter blood sugars for calibrating it and stop and start the sensor sessions. Thanks to this mailing list, I Learned that the G5 uses the iPhone with the mobile app and allows me to do everything on my own. 

You will learn how to change the sensor during the training for the system. Your doctors office should provide that for you. Once you learn how to change it, it becomes a piece of cake. You have to calibrate twice a day, and the iPhone won't let you forget to do that! The calibrations have to be 12 hours apart or somewhere close to that. When you change the sensor once a week, you have to enter two blood sugars after the two hour warm – up. So, you still have to do blood sugars at least twice a day. Entering the blood sugars on the iPhone is so simple to do.

If you like keeping your blood sugar is under good control, then you should like the Dexcom.

Hope this answers some of your questions. Let us know if you have further questions, especially once you get it.

    Jamie 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 22, 2017, at 6:38 PM, Daniel Chavez via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> I am writing to see whether anyone has had success with the DXCom app for their DXCom Continuous Glucose Monitoring meter?
> I ask because my endocrinologist is working on getting a continuous glucose monitoring meter for me, and this is my first time ever that I'll be using a meter that continuously monitors glucose level's.
> They say that the company they go through is DexCom, and that the meter they'd get, most likely, would be the DexCom G5.
> So my other questions are:
> 1. Can you see your results with VO using the DexCom app on iPhone?
> 2. How easy is the DexCom G5 to configure?
> 3. My doctor's MA tells me you have to change the sensor's weekly, how can you achieve this?
> 4. How often do you have to calibrate the meter?
> And lastly
> 5. How much memory does the DexCom G5 have? And how many results can the DexCom G5 hold?
> Thanks for any help that can be provided.
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