[Diabetes-Talk] My Saturday night G7 adventure.

Sun Jun 18 22:43:21 UTC 2023

Eileen, you had the same questions I did. Here's how it went for me. First,
the new sensor. It starts warming up the instant you put it in your body. It
doesn't have to be connected to the app at all. It just sits there and gets
used to your body. So when I take out the old one, then start the new one,
there's no down time. It's great.
So, when it came time to start the new sensor, I had just let mine expire. I
just removed the old one, went into my phone's blue tooth settings and told
it to forget the old transmitter.
Then I double-tapped on start sensor. The first thing it wants, just like
previous versions, is to enter the code. Just like in previous versions, you
have the choice of take picture or enter manually. So this time I chose take
picture. When I did, I was presented with a second take picture button. It
says to keep the arrow between the lines. Yeah right. I knew that the code
was on the opposite side of the applicator from the big rubber button.
What's nice here, thank you Dexcom for listening, is that it doesn't time
out as fast as the G6 does. I start guessing about distances and positions.
When it got it, it issued a pairing request. I wasn't sure I had gotten it
the first time so I hit the back button and did it again. But I never left
the G7 app. 
I hope that explanation made sense.
As for the 780, interesting. I can't imagine how you'd charge the
transmitter at the end of a year unless you have to do without the CGM for
awhile. It will be interesting to see how all of these products evolve,
won't it.
Veronica

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Hi Veronica,

I have a question or two about the process of starting a new sensor with the
G7. 

First,I have tried scanning or taking photos of QR codes for other stuff and
am never sure what I'm doing. When you open the camera is there any special
setting or button to tell the phone you are trying to take a photo of a QR
code or does it just do it? And are you taking a photo or is it more of a
scan that the phone does automatically? I'm a little uncertain if these QR
codes are special and when scanned or photographed the phone just knows what
to do or where to send it.

Second, when you say you put on and started the new sensor a hour before the
old one expired, do you mean you had the two sensors running at the same
time? Don't you have to switch out the transmitter from the old to the new
before starting up the new sensor totally?
Going a bit off-topic here, but when I saw the new Medtronic 780G pump, the
trainer said that if I was to use Medtronic CGM with that model pump their
transmitter lasts for a full year. The only catch, and I'm a bit unsure if
this is a good or pain in the but issue, is that the transmitter needs to be
recharged. I'm not sure if that recharging is done through USB  or an AC
adaptor.

Just trying to understand should I look to upgrade to the G7. Thanks for
your very good explanations.

Eileen 

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From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Veronica
Elsea via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2023 1:50 AM
To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind' <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Veronica Elsea <veronica at laurelcreekmusic.com>
Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] My Saturday night G7 adventure.

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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