[Diabetes-Talk] DXCom G5 First Time User

Fri Jun 23 22:02:52 UTC 2017

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From: Diabetes-Talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Veronica Elsea via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 10:17 AM
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Cc: Veronica Elsea <veronica at laurelcreekmusic.com>
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] DXCom G5 First Time User

Hi Daniel.
I'll add a couple of things to Jaimie's post here. There is a growing list of us on this list using the Dexcom G5 Mobile. To clarify, once you have it set up, you can use your phone to look at your current reading. It takes a new reading every five minutes. Sighted people can look at a graph that covers 24 hours, but that isn't yet accessible to us. If you get the Dexcom Clarity app, you can get a code that you share with your doctor so you can review your readings together. 
Yes, we can adjust all our settings ourselves. Every six months you replace the transmitter and you have to enter its serial number in the phone. I have managed to be able to scan the back of the box and enter mine automatically but it takes patience, lots of light and a bit of luck. Some people get the serial number read to them and enter it manually. 
In the beginning I did have trouble getting the tape on without wrinkling until I finally got a decent explanation of the best way to get it on. It really was a source of frustration for me in the early days but most of the time I do better now. If I swim, I do put extra tape over it to hold it better. I actually calibrate mine three times a day because if I don't, the phone starts yelling at me when I'm in the middle of doing something. 
I know of no way we could review past readings ourselves but when you look at a current reading, VoiceOver will read the icons which say, rising slowly, rising rapidly, falling slowly, constant, etc. So that will tell you something about your patterns. Although once in awhile mine will say constant and it turns out to be falling or something. So I just snoop fairly often. But you can choose which alarms you activate, what sounds you like and whether or not it vibrates. 
When you have one and detailed explanations would make more sense, we'll all be happy to help out. But I would certainly go for it.
Thanks.
Veronica

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From: Diabetes-Talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jamie Gurganus via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 6:47 PM
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Cc: Jamie Gurganus
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] DXCom G5 First Time User

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 

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> 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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