Diabetes

[ArlyA]

For my cgm, all I use id the monitor dexcom supplies. Easy to carry and use.

 

[NorTracNY]

You guys with CGM. Can you post up a pic of your daily average/time in ranges like this of mine? Im curious to see how mine is compared to others.View attachment 1951661View attachment 1951659View attachment 1951658

The CGM plots say a lot. You can see the dawn phenomenon in the slow rise from 3am to 8am. This is your body waking up. I'd venture to say that you don't have breakfast or you are not eating carbohydrates for breakfast. You are having carbohydrates between 11-noon most days for lunch. It then looks like you have a dinner around 7pm and a late night snack just before bed?

I'm in nutritional ketosis. My plot is very boring, so I include the 14days.

You can see my dawn phenomenon from 3am to 8am also. I don't have many carbohydrates, so I rarely spike. My breakfast and lunch are just meat and veggies. I'll sometimes have some fruit with yogurt or HWC for an afternoon snack. The evening drops are from me doing intense cardio. I was playing around with adding carbs just before the exercise to reduce the effect, so sometimes there are small bumps up.

 

[Rmart30]

The CGM plots say a lot. You can see the dawn phenomenon in the slow rise from 3am to 8am. This is your body waking up. I'd venture to say that you don't have breakfast or you are not eating carbohydrates for breakfast. You are having carbohydrates between 11-noon most days for lunch. It then looks like you have a dinner around 7pm and a late night snack just before bed?

I'm in nutritional ketosis. My plot is very boring, so I include the 14days.
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You can see my dawn phenomenon from 3am to 8am also. I don't have many carbohydrates, so I rarely spike. My breakfast and lunch are just meat and veggies. I'll sometimes have some fruit with yogurt or HWC for an afternoon snack. The evening drops are from me doing intense cardio. I was playing around with adding carbs just before the exercise to reduce the effect, so sometimes there are small bumps up.

Almost spot on for me in your observation of intakes. I can make mine flatter like yours but I have to cut out all carbs. My regular doc said "rises" as long as the didnt exceed 180 were acceptable. I was curious as to if with other peoples were more flatter lined as yours, or had more rises and falls.
Im going to get a CGM and put on the wife and see how hers looks.

 

[NorTracNY]

It's not just how high you spike, but how long does it take your body to return to premeal. You can also find that some combinations of food can be better than just a singular food. Everyone's different.

 

[ArlyA]

My dexcom 7's have recently been failing on day 9+-. I'd guess they changed the formula or manufacture.

 

[5030]

Lots of people are diabetic as well as people have high blood pressure, both of which I'd trade for what I'm afflicted with.

 

[Rmart30]

My dexcom 7's have recently been failing on day 9+-. I'd guess they changed the formula or manufacture.

they sale online clear patches that go on over the sensor. That might help keep them on. I have had no issues with the Libre coming off early.

 

[ArlyA]

they sale online clear patches that go on over the sensor. That might help keep them on. I have had no issues with the Libre coming off early.

Failing, not fall off.

 

[Rmart30]

Failing, not fall off.

Old eyes
Ive had 2 Libre quit and they mailed me replacements.

 

[ArlyA]

I've been using Dexcom CGM's for some time and now using the 3rd or 4th generation since I started them. Libre back then you needed to push a button to get it to read, not continuous. Seem they have updated them some. I use overpatches because I've ripped sensors off, while working and carrying things