Hi fellow Diabetics. I'm a TD1 since 1986, new DEXCOM ONE user. Product website doesn't support my query in the FAQs; hoping fellow users can share their experiences; after insertion of a new SENSOR blood appeared on the injection site - Not sore, just worried. TYI
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Hello @Vali, welcome to the forum
I'm a relative newcomer to this D malarkey in comparison to yourself and I had a single "bleeder" when I had Libre 2, which (like many other of my L2 sensors) failed early but with no particular other problems.
But there are several reports of bleeding from a sensor within the forum and I think you'd find it potentially helpful or at least interesting to read the search results [magnifying glass at top right] against "sensor bleeders" where there are a number of posts about this.
Are you new to CGM or just to Dexcom One?
I'm a relative newcomer to this D malarkey in comparison to yourself and I had a single "bleeder" when I had Libre 2, which (like many other of my L2 sensors) failed early but with no particular other problems.
But there are several reports of bleeding from a sensor within the forum and I think you'd find it potentially helpful or at least interesting to read the search results [magnifying glass at top right] against "sensor bleeders" where there are a number of posts about this.
Are you new to CGM or just to Dexcom One?
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Welcome to the forum @Vali
Hope the sensor continues to work well. There’s a saying from long-term CGM users that “a bleeder is a reader” from earlier days when sensor performance was a little more variable. Some users seemed to notice that sensors which bled a little after insertion seemed to track particularly well against fingerstick glucose.
I think it happens when the insertion process nicks a capillary allowing blood to escape. they are generally painless and nothing to be concerned about in my experience.
Hope the sensor continues to work well. There’s a saying from long-term CGM users that “a bleeder is a reader” from earlier days when sensor performance was a little more variable. Some users seemed to notice that sensors which bled a little after insertion seemed to track particularly well against fingerstick glucose.
I think it happens when the insertion process nicks a capillary allowing blood to escape. they are generally painless and nothing to be concerned about in my experience.
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In case you are not aware @Vali there are limitations to the use of CGM. See:
CGM limitations and precautions
Moderator Note: This helpful reply was copied from another thread as it details some of the commonly experienced limitations of continuous glucose sensors. My blood sugar has been in perfect range for days now, but although I haven't changed anything, I'm starting to get very short periods of...
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