[Diabetes-Talk] I ran

[d m gina]

OK I miss nderstood, yes I do finger stick.
but not touch the libre with blood.

Original message:
> I definitely always calibrate mine. For the first 24 hours or so I 
> check the system against my meter to see what happens.
> Amber

>> On Mar 11, 2019, at 6:26 PM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via 
>> Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

>> Dar,

>> People are not having problems with the Dexcom system itself, but insurance,
>> Medicare in particular, with getting supplies and upgrading to the newer
>> version. A couple of people like Veronica are having problems with Dexcom
>> directly, but not the operation of the system. Pretty much everyone agrees
>> the Dexcom product itself is great, and we like it, it's just getting
>> insurance to do what it should that's the problem.

>> Knock on wood, but so far, I'm not having problems getting my Dexcom
>> supplies. Hopefully it stays this way.

>> I thought with Libre you still had to calibrate the device every so often.
>> Even with Dexcom G6, you have to calibrate every time you put on a new
>> sensor. Which means poking your finger to calibrate against the device. I
>> thought Libre was the same.

>> Bridgit

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of d m gina
>> via Diabetes-Talk
>> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 5:06 PM
>> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Cc: d m gina <dmgina at mysero.net>
>> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] I ran

>> I went back to the libre yesterday.
>> I put it on my arm and put one of the strips that com with it.
>> I bought them for the libre when I was using the unit.
>> You scare me when you folks are having so many problems with the dex com.
>> I am so sorry.
>> I do hope this libre will work better for me this time.
>> I was able to go back to my account put in a pass word and off I go.
>> It took rite away, and started working with in the hour.
>> Now the numbers do read high so I felt it was getting used to my body.
>> I felt I needed to do something because of getting on the different insulin
>> in a couple of months.
>> I can check it now with out sticking my fingers.
>> I hope insurance will start to realize we also need devices to use the same
>> thing all people have is being a diabetic.
>> When you hear the commercials, you think that the only persons who are
>> diabetic are the sighted.
>> Just wanted to share.

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