Strangest comment you heard about your seasor just for a laugh")

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trophywench said:
I knew what it was and was gobsmacked she hadn't bothered to get the ring where the previous one was stuck, off her arm.
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To be I fair I find dexcom sesonor adhesive a nightmare to get off.
 
So rub it with either Vaseline or a teensy drop of oil - eg cooking oil on a finger. Then wash it off with soap and water.
 
trophywench said:
I knew what it was and was gobsmacked she hadn't bothered to get the ring where the previous one was stuck, off her arm.
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TBF Jenny, they are a nightmare those rings! But someone should have told her! I use an oily eye makeup remover. Not perfect, but at this time of year when I’m not usually bearing my upper arms it’ll do.
 
Well @eggyg the reason I know about Vaseline working is purely because when we were little and either of us had been wearing plasters - fabric unwashable Elastoplast that you buy in a box from the chemists shop, and cut a strip off with scissors, the glue on that always left residue wherever it was stuck and my mother wouldn't let us out to be seen by neighbours or school teachers, let alone strangers with such marks. Having someone anywhere ever at all think her not to be a caring mother was NOT on. Just had to sit there patiently whilst she carefully rubbed the Vaseline 'into' the sticky residue, if you knew what was good for you! (and we certainly did .... by the time we started Junior school)

Anything oily will do it. Make up remover is quite probably better perfumed than cooking oil!
 
trophywench said:
So rub it with either Vaseline or a teensy drop of oil - eg cooking oil on a finger. Then wash it off with soap and water.
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I often forget - I take the sensor off and after all the yanking at the skin and pulling the sensor out I don't really want to aggravate the area any more immediately. It's quite easy to then forget about it completely as it's quite hard to see the back of my arms unless I set out to try, though it usually gets washed off eventually!
 
SimonP said:
I often forget - I take the sensor off and after all the yanking at the skin and pulling the sensor out I don't really want to aggravate the area any more immediately. It's quite easy to then forget about it completely as it's quite hard to see the back of my arms unless I set out to try, though it usually gets washed off eventually!
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Ah, well, see - one's Mama did not ascribe to eventually. If marks don't come off easily - you simply need to scrub them hard, then harder, then harder for longer.
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Which was exactly why both my 'big' sister and I learned PDQ to do 'what we were told to do' at an early age ......
 
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Someone asked me once if a Libre was a nicotine patch.

Someone else (a complete stranger) tried to pull it off, because they “thought I had something stuck on me” 😱 😱 😱
 
Amity Island said:
I've had a "snap" comment a couple of times. A nice way to get to know other type 1's.
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I love that sensors have made it easier to spot another PWD in the wild!
 
Amity Island said:
I've had a "snap" comment a couple of times. A nice way to get to know other type 1's.
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Ah well this isn't sesonor releted but at the training day for elf job I had(which unfortunately didn't last very long) when we waiting to start some said "if my blood suger goes low' and i very excitedly exclaimed "are you a type 1 diabetic". It was probably a bit much
 
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I would never to go a stranger and try to pull something from their body without asking, but I feel I've had a moment or two, before I got diagnosed myself, of being in the beach and thinking "does that person have a bottle cap in their arm??".

My boss also get mixed with sensors and insulin pumps. He asked me if my Libre gives me insulin when I need it. I wouldn't be frustrated with him for not knowing, if it wasn't because he asks the same questions regularly and I've explained already a few times. I wonder if his memory is bad or he just doesn't listen to my answers!
 
Elenka_HM said:
I would never to go a stranger and try to pull something from their body without asking, but I feel I've had a moment or two, before I got diagnosed myself, of being in the beach and thinking "does that person have a bottle cap in their arm??".

My boss also get mixed with sensors and insulin pumps. He asked me if my Libre gives me insulin when I need it. I wouldn't be frustrated with him for not knowing, if it wasn't because he asks the same questions regularly and I've explained already a few times. I wonder if his memory is bad or he just doesn't listen to my answers!
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That's almost like to the questions of "can you this?" With people I've told servel times I can have anything I just need to take insulin for it. It's like some people have preconceived ideas"
 
Also, I never did this but I thought if I ever wanted to mess with someone who asked me "what is this?" referring to my Libre, I'd go "oh, is the reset button. Please don't touch it, or I'd go back to factory settings!" :D
 
Elenka_HM said:
Also, I never did this but I thought if I ever wanted to mess with someone who asked me "what is this?" referring to my Libre, I'd go "oh, is the reset button. Please don't touch it, or I'd go back to factory settings!" :D
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Because of where I wear my dexcom sesonors I don't think anyone would see it normally unless I was doing and Injection at the same area. (The doctor a and e saw as he needed to look at stuff) but offen wondered if it was in place to be seen weather I say something silly


I have had people thinking my receiver was phone though. Which if slightly awkward because that means I may looked rude to them if I was looking at it.
 
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Robin said:
I assume if he qualified before CGMs were generally around, he’s never had to update his diabetes knowledge if he now specialises in another area.
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Regardless of whether a dr is a specialist or when they qualified, or knows how to set up and use such a device it’s boarding on incompetence to not even recognise such a widely used medical device in an NHS A&E setting. I’m not sure I could take anything they said seriously after that
 
HSSS said:
Regardless of whether a dr is a specialist or when they qualified, or knows how to set up and use such a device it’s boarding on incompetence to not even recognise such a widely used medical device in an NHS A&E setting. I’m not sure I could take anything they said seriously after that
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Well he was stumped to what my problem was gp seemed to figue it out today though.
 
HSSS said:
Regardless of whether a dr is a specialist or when they qualified, or knows how to set up and use such a device it’s boarding on incompetence to not even recognise such a widely used medical device in an NHS A&E setting. I’m not sure I could take anything they said seriously after that
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I am guessing that because it wasn't on the arm like a Libre which I imagine most doctors will be familiar with and the Dexcom has a transmitter attached to it so it is a bit more bulky than a Libre so I don't think it is unrealistic for a doctor in A&E to ask if it was a pump. The tubeless pumps are pretty small and the abdomen would be a common place to site a pump.
 
rebrascora said:
I am guessing that because it wasn't on the arm like a Libre which I imagine most doctors will be familiar with and the Dexcom has a transmitter attached to it so it is a bit more bulky than a Libre so I don't think it is unrealistic for a doctor in A&E to ask if it was a pump. The tubeless pumps are pretty small and the abdomen would be a common place to site a pump.
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But when I said "no it's a cgm" he asked "what does it do". But then again he might not have understood the acymon
 
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