[Diabetes-Talk] Dexcom

[d m gina]

Hello,
I did the upgrade on the watch last night.
Is there the app now on it to read the sugars?
Maybe I miss understood.
I would have to work with it to see what aI thought if it is true.
You folks are more up to date on it than I am.

Original message:
> I just have one comment about the watch. You are correct that if you 
> are in Wi-Fi range, you don’t have to have your phone near you. 
> However, you can’t dismiss an alarm with the watch unless they have 
> changed that since I used mine last. You can only dismiss an alarm 
> using your phone, which made me always have my phone near me! Good luck 
> with it. I am sure you will like it for many of its features.

>      Jamie

> Sent from my iPhone

>> On Dec 10, 2019, at 4:59 PM, blindhands--- via Diabetes-Talk 
>> <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

>> I use the Dexcom and I have United Health Care and Medicaid of CT.  I do not
>> pay anything for my Dexcom supplies.  I do get them thru a distributer
>> called  Byrom Healthcare.


>> I first got them directly from Dexcom and it was costing me just under $100
>> for a 3 month supply as Dexcom wouldn’t take my Medicaid.



>> As far as the Dexcom G5 goes I have used that for more then 1 ½ years and
>> really after the training and maybe a month beyond that I was doing it by
>> myself without any problems.  I have in the last month gotten the Dexcom G6
>> and after my son read me the directions and I fumbled putting the sensor in
>> a couple of times it is working out OK.  I am just having trouble with the
>> sensors staying on.  I am waiting for a delivery of the overlay patches to
>> us and hopefully once I get them I will be set.



>> The apt works great and easy to use.  The only trouble I have had with the
>> apt is when the sensor fell off twice there was a warning signal that would
>> go off basically saying “replace sensor now!”   I go to bed listening to a
>> book that is on my iPhone and let me tell you that for some unknown reason
>> that this warning signal would go off in the middle of the night every 60
>> seconds and tell you that the signal had  sounded 2, 3, 4, 5 minutes ago.
>> As I was waiting to get the overlay patches I spent 2 nights listening to
>> that and then gave up and used some surgical tape  to anchor the sensor
>> down.

>> I have just gotten an Apple watch and will let you know how Dexcom works
>> with that.  I understand if you have an Wi-Fi connection you do not have to
>> have your iPhone  near you.



>> Joyce the sensor.







>> I can’t live without my Dexcom keeping me informed on what my blood sugars
>> are and especially







>> Joyce Kane

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