[Diabetes-Talk] My Saturday night G7 adventure.

[Patricia Maddix]

Darr,
Don’t feel bad. I do not yet have a G7, but from all that I am reading, it sounds like the screens are way too busy, and that frequently needed buttons are buried far to deep in menus.  These apps should be developed for ultimate simplicity and ease of getting to things that are needed on a daily basis. It should not be assumed that everyone using them is high-tech, or if they are, they just don’t want to devote this much time to the app. I am sure we would all agree that we would like to spend as little time as possible managing our diabetes and still be able to do a good job.
Patricia

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 18, 2023, at 11:31 AM, d m gina via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh this is good news.
> I have my senser on, but don't have anything going, don't understand all of it to try it.
> I admire folks who can do this.
> Dar
> Original message:
>> Hi everyone.
>> Okay, I did as I said I would.
>> First, I did get the QR code by taking a picture. Wow! It was a bit twiddly
>> fiddly. My phone didn't vibrate or make noise when I got it though. I just
>> got the message about pairing. The first time I got it, I wasn't sure I had
>> gotten it, because it left me in the place where I'd enter the code
>> manually. So being unsure, I backed out and did it again. The second time I
>> got the pairing request, it still felt just a little funny where I was left,
>> but I eventually did find the start button and off it went. But I was
>> thrilled to see that unlike the G6, we had a longer time to play with the
>> "take picture" mode and it didn't time out. Woo hoo!
>> I had put the new sensor on 1 hour before I let the old one expire. I wanted
>> as littler interruption of what I was doing, so it worked out that way. I
>> think I ended up with about a minute of no sensor readings, so that was
>> pretty cool.
>> I'm also playing with some of the alerts. I'm trying out the new change in
>> the high alert where I've told it that my reading must be high for half an
>> hour before bugging me, so any quick post-meal spikes won't bug me. Since
>> urgent low wasn't kicking in till my reading was around 60, I added in a low
>> and set it to 80. Hopefully this will keep me from crashing so much.
>> I'm still not overly impressed with the alarms. Most of them are like those
>> in the G6.
>> And I still have a bit of difficulty getting that itty bitty piece of tape
>> off.
>> But thanks for the nudge on the cool new discoveries. I still want my stop
>> or replace button and a better blue tooth. But I did enjoy playing with the
>> good stuff.
>> Now we'll see how the sensor behaves all week.
>> Thanks for the tidbits.
>> Veronica
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