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If you have ever used a CGM, in what year did you first begin using a CGM?
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I was in the first couple of test groups for Dexcom.
Thank you, Sharon, for being in a test group!! 🙂
I started using Medtronic’s original SofSensors when they integrated the receiver into the pump (I think it was the 522/722 models). I think it was around 2007.
I started with the Medtronic sofsense with a dumb little device. Thank good was MEDT is nsmin outstanding CHM products these days
I made a mistake, I thought the question involved using a pump. I started using a CGM in 2015, not 2007.
I started using a cgm when I was diagnosed in October 2021
I was in a test group for the Dexcom for a year back in 2009 and then wore another one in a kidney reseach project a couple times. My Medicare insurance finally started covering CGMs a few years ago. 😊
Thank you, Jeanne, for being in a test group! 🙂
Oddly enough, I can’t remember……best guess, 2016. Too late to help my memory, apparently!
I can relate!
pru
Most of you have heard this story before, but it’s worth telling again.
In 2006, I had a low blood glucose at work. It was around 8:00am after riding for 1 1/2 in a car pool to work. I stopped on the way to my office, collapsed like a marionette with the strings broken. I fell, breaking my right ankle.
At the time, I was doing about a dozen blood tests daily. I had just heard about CGM’s from Medtronic, but my health insurance did not cover the cost for CGM’s.
As I sat at home in a cast, I telephoned and wrote to my health insurance company. I told them that if I had a CGM, I probably would not be sitting at home for weeks, and the insurance company not paying all of the medical costs.
Soon afterward, I was approved by my insurance company for a Medtronic CGM. I don’t know for sure, but I think I may have been the first T1D to be approved for a CGM by my insurance company.
I am now using a Tandem X2 pump, with Control IQ, and a Dexcom G6 sensor.
Excellent story, continue telling it. I started the G6 about the same time as you. When are you going to delve into the G7, I’m anxious to do it. But, I’d like to see how others like it/or not first.
Thanks, Don. I have not heard much about the G7. But, I will have to wait until Medicare approves it. Also, I must make sure it is compatible with my current Tandem X2 pump, and has Control IQ.
The first time I ever used a CGM was in 2010. I had a new endocrinologist and was in the process of switching from syringes to insulin pens. She wanted me to try out a CGM as a means of getting to know my condition better. I only had to wear it for a week. Three years later, at which point I had a pump, I did another CGM demo. I didn’t start using a CGM permanently until fall 2016.
I read Think Like a Pancreas a few months after diagnosis in 2014 and talked to my doctor about prescribing a CGM after that. I remember the first insertion: that gigantic syringe terrified me! 🙂
Mid 2014 at age of 26mos. Would have been sooner, but very nasty insurance appeal!
My earliest experience with CGM was wearing a device that stored data for my doctor to analyze later without giving me information in real time. I can’t remember exactly when that was but I do remember getting my own Medtronic CGM as soon as possible after meeting a student at a conference who was using the first Dexcom CGM system. It was a life changer!
I got a cgm shortly after being diagnosed which was a year ago.
Dexcom released their first CGM system in Late Summer/Early Fall 2007 and I started using CGM (Dexcom) soon after initial release but don’t remember if I started using CGM in late Fall/early Winter (October – December) 2007 or mid Winter (January – March) 2008.
I started within a month of diagnosis of LADA.
I think it was around 2007. It was the Dexcom Seven (not the G7!). I was doing 15-20 fingersticks and loved having the data in an easier way (of course back then it was still fingersticks). I found it to be such a useful tool, that after moving and having to change insurance, I continued using Dexcom (in it’s various iterations) paying out of pocket. SO glad my insurance finally got with the program
I intentionally waited for the Dexcom G6 as the improvements in MARD were important to me. Diabetes is hard enough, and until the MARD became less of an issue, that’s when I did it. Fall of 2016. FDA approved the G7, looks like worthwhile update, we’ll see?
Vanity kept me from begging to use a pump, and boy do I regret it! I was diagnosed in 1963. I’m not sure when pumps first hit the market. Luckily, my first pump, Medtronic with a Dexcom sensor, didn’t stick out like a sore thumb. Bt when the Tandem closed loop system was released, I jumped on it quickly! So easy, and my health is improved vastly [for my age, at least 🙂 ]
I actually don’t remember when I started. Mid-2010’s. I was tardy to the party. Resisted wearing another thing in my body and was on Medicare by then so when my endo first started mentioning it to me it was SOP in Medicare’s mind. Now, I wouldn’t live without it. Not the best as far as accuracy for me, but love being able to track trends, and have an idea of where my bg is at a glance. Started with the G5.
I used an experimental CGM in 1977 at UCLA. It then took 30 years to achieve a commercial product.
Thank you, Bob, for being the participant who helped CGMs come to fruition!! 🙂
I have 2 or 3 “start” dates because I had two false starts. My first experiences with the CGM were not positive and I hated it.
BUT, around 2012-ish (I really don’t remember the exact year, but it was around then), I had a Physician’s Assistant who reeeeeeeaaaalllyyyyy helped me and the 3rd one stayed up! (Didn’t have to get to the 4th one… sorry… silly joke… Monty Python reference… my brain is all over the board right now.)
Anyway, CGM is SO awesome. It is not a perfect tool for me, but it is better for me than not having it. 🙂
I put 2005-2007, but don’t remember exactly. I recall trying an early Medtronic CGM for a short period then trying again in 2008 during my first pregnancy. These earlier versions didn’t work very well for me, so didn’t stick with it until reliability improved with the Dexcom 4, then Medtronic guardian with 670g pump and now Dexcom 6 with Tandem.
I chose “other,” because I don’t remember what year it was. I know I started on Medtronic, but didn’t use their CGM for long. I then started on Dexcom about 6 months later. This was the G4, with a free upgrade to the then soon to be released G5.