diabeticjohn
Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hi All,
I posted in the newbies thread the other week about (finally) starting to get serious about my Type 2. I bought the Dexcom G6 and started using it last Wednesday. The first day the results were awful, but got better as the days passed. I got drunk on Saturday which caused my phone to go crazy with beeps and bells telling me that my mmol/L was too high and I was a terrible person (ok maybe I just thought that).
Last night around 2am it started beeping saying my mmol/L was 3.8 and in 20 mins would be 3.1 if no action was taken. I've never been in a situation that my mmol/L was anything other than too high. So I got up, and I thought I'd check it with my meter. That gave me a reading of 5.6... What I'm wondering now is the accuracy of either of them as I also noticed that my meter strips were now out of date.
I've had a wee read on the Dexcom FAQ's but that seemed to confuse things further by saying it measures different things and there's no need to calibrate, unless you need to calibrate?!
I'm kinda disappointed because I felt like I was doing really well and for the most part my readings were that of a non diabetic, and now I feel like it was all a lie...lol...
If anyone has some real world advice on this that would be wonderful.
Cheers....
John
I posted in the newbies thread the other week about (finally) starting to get serious about my Type 2. I bought the Dexcom G6 and started using it last Wednesday. The first day the results were awful, but got better as the days passed. I got drunk on Saturday which caused my phone to go crazy with beeps and bells telling me that my mmol/L was too high and I was a terrible person (ok maybe I just thought that).
Last night around 2am it started beeping saying my mmol/L was 3.8 and in 20 mins would be 3.1 if no action was taken. I've never been in a situation that my mmol/L was anything other than too high. So I got up, and I thought I'd check it with my meter. That gave me a reading of 5.6... What I'm wondering now is the accuracy of either of them as I also noticed that my meter strips were now out of date.
I've had a wee read on the Dexcom FAQ's but that seemed to confuse things further by saying it measures different things and there's no need to calibrate, unless you need to calibrate?!
I'm kinda disappointed because I felt like I was doing really well and for the most part my readings were that of a non diabetic, and now I feel like it was all a lie...lol...
If anyone has some real world advice on this that would be wonderful.
Cheers....
John