I wrote
last month about my diabetes diagnosis this year and my
difficult choice to wear a proprietary device (called a
CGM) on my arm 24/7
to continuously monitor my glucose levels. Like my friend and colleague,
Karen M. Sandler — who previously made a much higher-stakes choice to
receive a proprietary implanted defibrillator to keep her safe given her
genetic heart condition — I reluctantly chose to attach proprietary
hardware and software to my body.
Granted everyone’s diabetes seems to be different, but how did 7 people eat themselves to death? Over the course of years?
IDK a friends niece has apparently been hospitalized more than one with sugars over 800mg/dl… apparently she’s just ignoring it.
I’m not doubting numbers… just morbidly curious.
And yeah, finger-stick meters suck too… how’s +-50 sound? Optimal being somewhere in the 80-140 range, 0 is basically dead… seizures while chewing off your own tongue. IIRC, the accuracy is allowed to get worse the further from optimal you get… oh and the U.S. didn’t even have a standard 20 years ago.
Had 2 Dexcom G6’s going at the same time a few months ago… that was eye opening. They were briefly over 100mg/dl apart.
It’s doable though, I fucked mine off for years… A1Cs routinely in the 11s even when I thought I was trying. But 10+ years of Dexcom/Tandem and my doctors have stopped pestering me :-)
How?
Granted everyone’s diabetes seems to be different, but how did 7 people eat themselves to death? Over the course of years?
IDK a friends niece has apparently been hospitalized more than one with sugars over 800mg/dl… apparently she’s just ignoring it.
I’m not doubting numbers… just morbidly curious.
And yeah, finger-stick meters suck too… how’s +-50 sound? Optimal being somewhere in the 80-140 range, 0 is basically dead… seizures while chewing off your own tongue. IIRC, the accuracy is allowed to get worse the further from optimal you get… oh and the U.S. didn’t even have a standard 20 years ago.
Had 2 Dexcom G6’s going at the same time a few months ago… that was eye opening. They were briefly over 100mg/dl apart.
It’s doable though, I fucked mine off for years… A1Cs routinely in the 11s even when I thought I was trying. But 10+ years of Dexcom/Tandem and my doctors have stopped pestering me :-)