[Diabetes-Talk] Oddity when pairing Dexcom G7 sensor

[Paul Magill]

Hi Julie, welcome!   

I have only used Dexcom, so am curious about the Libre in  your situation.

Are you diabetic type 1 or type 2?  If type 1, is the Libre that you are using able to wake you through the night if your glucose starts to go too low? 

That’s the feature I most appreciate about the Dexcom, plus I have become accustomed to it.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-Talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Julie Phillipson via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Thursday, 29 May 2025 12:49 AM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
Cc: Julie Phillipson
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] Oddity when pairing Dexcom G7 sensor

hi everyone I just joined this group and I'd like to introduce myself my
name is Julie Phillipson and I live in Buffalo New York and I've been
Diabetic for three years. I use the freestyle libre system. There's no code
to deal with and you don't need cited assistance to start it the one I use
is the first one that they developed in at last 14 days. I don't see any
reason to upgrade it to the Libre two or three I'm not sure what the
differences are but it doesn't make sense for me to change.

Julie PhillipsonJulie Phillipson


On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 4:51=E2=80=AFAM Amy Ruell via Diabetes-Talk <
diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Good morning,
> At the ungodly hour of 4 AM, my sensor expired. Not a surprise, just an
> anno=3D
> yance! Anyway, using VoiceOver on my iPhone 16 Pro running iOS version
> 18.5 I=3D
>  tried to start a new sensor. After obtaining the number of the sensor on
> my=3D
>  packaging, I went through the usual procedure of trying to enter the
> sensor=3D
>  number. However, after activating the enter sensor number button on the
> iPh=3D
> one, I was surprised to find that there was no way using VoiceOver to
> enter t=3D
> he sensor number manually. I heard clicks when touching the keypad and th=
e
> s=3D
> ubmit button was Unable to be activated as it was grayed out. I called
> AIRA a=3D
> nd had a person confirm that indeed there were four dots on the screen,
> but n=3D
> o way to enter the sensor number manually. I was able to get the sensor
> pair=3D
> ed by scanning with the camera, which I don=3DE2=3D80=3D99t do easily, bu=
t then
> Ca=3D
> lled Dexcom support. Apparently there was an update on the 25th. They
> couldn=3D
> =3DE2=3D80=3D99t tell me anything about whether they update has an impact=
 on
> this f=3D
> unction. The person with whom I spoke, didn=3DE2=3D80=3D99t know what voi=
ceover
> wa=3D
> s. I had  closed the program and then restarted it several times prior to
> ca=3D
> lling AIRA. I=3DE2=3D80=3D99m wondering if this was a fluke with my phone=
 or
> wheth=3D
> er anybody else has had this problem in the last three days when starting
> a n=3D
> ew Dexcom G7 sensor thanks.
> Sent from my iPhone=3D
>
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