Diabetic Diet & Blood Gluecose

My blood sugars have been so bad for a while now that my doctor recommended the continuous blood glucose monitor. It’s the Minimed version I believe.

So what are the pros and cons of this? I will be trying it out eventually obviously but won’t be getting it for about another month now. What do you think of it?

Thanks!

Pros-It will help keep track of your numbers more often but you still need to check your sugar 4x a day so the sensor is calibrated correctly. It alerts you when your blood sugars are going out of range.

Cons-Its really expensive, especially if insurance won’t cover it and it is still pricey if they do. You can call Minimed and ask them about what you would be paying. You would have a second device hooked up to your abdomen, not sure how you feel about that.

I am in the same situation about getting one but the thing stopping me is the price because I am on tight budget because I am going back to school in a month. At my doctors office they had a CGM and I was able to try it for a week to see if I even liked it.

Hi! I live in argentina, and my sister is traveling to the states the next month. I’ve got diabetes type I since year 2000 and even though I have been having good glucose measures, the long term analysis aren’t the expected ones. That’s why I was thinking in buying a CGM (continuous glucose meter) to know myself better.

Is it possible to buy a continuous blood glucose meter without medical prescription from the USA?

If possible, can you give some advice about the CGM to buy? I’m just interested in the CGM, not in an insulin pump. And I think I will only use it for a couple of months, because I just want to learn about myself and my glucose behavior.

Thanks!

I wouldn’t recommend any of them as they have not proved there accuracy levels, until then stay with glucometers, not 100% accurate but willll be in the 85-90% range of accruacy.