My 16 day adventure with Mr. Dexcom has finally ended. Actually it ended last night. It ended on my choice as well, not on Dexcom’s. Last night, the 16th straight day of the same sensor working flawlessly, I decided to go for a swim and get a little workout. My back was beginning to hurt again, so all I wanted to do was just lay in the bath tub and relax for a little bit. I noticed that the Dex was losing its stickiness and with a hot bath, it would most likely come off soon. So, I decided to just remove the Dexcom sensor.
As soon as I did it, I regretted it. I realized that I was only about 3 hours away from my first no-hitter. That really pissed me off. Then, I also realized that I was freaking out because I didn’t know what my blood sugar was just by looking at the Dexcom. My blood sugars were by no means perfect, but overall, in those 16 days, they were a lot better than what they are in a 16 day period without the Dexcom.
When I first got the Dexcom last December, I wore it for 4 days right away and I loved it, but I didn’t put a new sensor in until almost 2-3 weeks later. After that sensor it was almost a month until the next one. Tonight, I realized that I can’t live without it, well, I could technically, but I don’t want to. I want to have a CGM on at all times. First thing I did this morning was put on a new sensor.
I didn’t put a new one on last night because I knew I was having pasta for dinner and that my blood sugar would most likely go high. I didn’t want to insert a sensor with a BG that would be at about 300 when I inserted and would drop to about 120 before bed, too much funkiness for it to handle.
Now, the only difficult part? Downloading all the graphs. Dexcom, can you please just make a Mac compatible software? I have a virtual machine on my Mac, but I use it…maybe once every 6 months, and that’s being nice. And one of the reasons I don’t use a PC anymore, every time I log on to it, there’s about 50 security updates and it takes 3 hours just to load them all and it’s not worth it to me. Why must companies force me to live in a PC world?
One thing is for sure though, I love my Dexcom!