24 Hours with a Dexcom Arm Site

I’ve been wearing my Dexcom on my arm now for 24 hours. My initial 24 hour thoughts, I love it!

Here’s a video of me inserting it myself, with a little help from my wife after I realized that I needed some help and practice doing it all myself. I had the insertion part done pretty easily, but getting the needle part disconnected was very difficult.

I inserted in my arm and had to have my wife put the sensor tape on because there is definitely no way that I would be able to do that myself. Maybe one day, but not any day soon.

The accuracy has been spot on. The comfort level has been great. I actually keep forgetting that it’s even there, which has caused me a couple of potential issues.

I’ve knocked the transmitter on the door jam a few different times. One time I hit it pretty hard and noticed that I started receiving ??? A little while later. Well, the transmitter was actually knocked loose a bit, which is why it wasn’t getting any readings.

Once I pushed the transmitter back into place, it started working great again.

I went tot he gym and was wearing a long sleeve shirt, which created even more moisture and everything held up great.

Sleeping the first night with the Dexcom arm location was a concern, but it actually went perfectly fine. I sleep on my side (as soon as I go to my back, I get an elbow from my wife because I snore way too loud), so I thought that maybe it would be uncomfortable or that I would rip the Dexcom out after rolling around in my sleep.

Didn’t happen.

Let’s see how I feel after a full 7 days, but after 24 hours, I’m sold.

2 arms and 2 under the breast area will be 4 spots, that is the rotation that I need. In fact, as of right now, I may want to stick to just the arm, but I don’t know if that will end up being a problem with only using those two spots.

We will see.

Until then.

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