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How often do you “knock” your pump or CGM site off your body?
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Rarely. But, I’ve noticed that since I started on the Dexcom G7 sensor, I’ve pulled the CGM off of my arm a few times while pulling my shirt on and/or off. There are occasional times when my pump falls off of my belt and yanks the cannula out when it falls. There is also the door know, or cabinet knob pull on occasion. Most of the time when those things happen, the site does not come off of my body.
Wearing my G7 on the back of my upper arm, every 6 one or so gets knocked off or the tape fails. I have tried many different tapes and finally settled on LEXICAM from Amazon. My canula less frequemtly. I don’t use tape on that.
When I used to wear a tubed insulin pump I always had it on my belt (like a pager). It would often get caught on things as I walked past, especially if the tubing got pulled out. After switching to the tubeless pump (Omnipods) I would sometimes catch them on things if I wore them on my arms. Now I mostly wear them on my abdomen or upper thighs and the issue has gone away.
This website is all mixed up. I get a daily question on one topic and submit an answer and I see there are several other responses that are unrelated to the topic. Now it’s happening to me.
I think I am going to unsubscribe.
Maybe happened once or twice in the five years I have had them.
I use a tubed pump and I am able to keep the tubing free from snagging on things by keeping the pump and tubing in a spi-belt. I use Skin-tac on my CGMs so they don’t get knocked off but don’t need the Skin-tac on my infusion sites from my pump.
I tape my infusion set and cgm down. Seems to work.
Twice with the new G7 sensors, I’ve had the plastic part of the sensor rip apart from the fabric part when I caught it on a doorjamb, leaving the fabric part behind on my arm. I’d never had this happen with a G6 sensor. Using an extra overpatch that covers the sensor and the transparent overwatch that comes with it seems to have solved the problem. (Or I’ve gotten less clumsy)
Never knocked of a G6. One or two of the Dexcom G7. Have moved from arm to thigh. Readings are great and won’t knock ot off. Wear a clear over patch. Not the nasty one they give you.
As I read through the comment’s I was surprised that so many have knocked off their G7’s. I wear mine in almost all the same places as the previous models of the Dexcom sensors, started with the G4; I’ve had less issues with the G7 getting caught of clothing than the G6 and earlier ones.
I wear a tubed pump and while I still worked bedside as a RN, I had the longest tubing they made. Why? If it came out of my clothing and got caught on a a door knob, jam etc. it had a ways to pull before my site was yanked out. Now Medicare doesn’t cover the long tubing, so I’m extra careful about it is all the time.
This week I knocked off my CGM and 4 hours later my pump
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But it was very humid and in 90’s.
I knock my cgm off more often than my infusion set, but it happens at least once a month on average.
I don’t actually knock it off it’s more like when I’m working around the house outside and it’s hot I’ll sweat it off.
@P Clark. I’m exactly the same. Unfortunately, I tend to sweat profusely … at times … which results in my CGM becoming easily detached.
It only happened to me twice, once the canular got caught on a doorknob and just last Wednesday it got caught on my dresser drew handle. (Fastest Set change I ever did.)
I have never actually knocked one off my body, but on one occasion I caught the Omnipod on something and pulled the cannula loose!
The G7 Dexcom has very poor adhesion. My first sensor fell off, the second got caught coming out of an airplane bathroom and stopped working. I am not so sure I like the arm placement.
Never now – wear the Dexcom above the belt line for that reason.