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      Anneyun likes your comment at
      If you use a CGM, do you currently have an adhesive overpatch on your sensor to help it stick?
      Pretty much always do within 3-4 days of starting a new sensor. Also, has anyone else noticed that their online order form for these things has been broken for like a month or more?
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      Has a stranger ever approached you to talk about your visible diabetes device(s)?
      I said yes, but never to have a conversation, it's always more like a "Cool, I have one too" kind of moment. It's a club!
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      If you use a CGM, do you currently have an adhesive overpatch on your sensor to help it stick?
      Well, since nearly everyone here commented about the Dexcom sensors, I'll add a comment about the Medtronic sensors. I do not use the patches sent by Medtronic as they irritate my skin. I use the Smith and Nephew IV3000 catheter dressing. It works well, keeps the sensor dry when I shower, and generally holds for a week.
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      If you use a CGM, do you currently have an adhesive overpatch on your sensor to help it stick?
      I use the free Dexcom patch that you have to order. I don't know why they don't just send it with the sensors. Occasionally I use Simpatch when I either knock the sensor off or I get sweaty.
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      If you use a CGM, do you currently have an adhesive overpatch on your sensor to help it stick?
      I've rarely needed to use an adhesive patch for my G6 but have done so occasionally when the original adhesive begins to peel...usually on day 8, 9 or 10. It's nice to have that option with patches supplied for free by Dexcom.
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      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      I am able to pr bolus for Breakfast and dinner as I am at home. I never know when I am going to eat at work so bolus is at start of meal.
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      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      So true about the "I prefer to bolus 15 minutes before ... and always forget" . Me too!
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      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      I usually bolus for breakfast right at the time I start eating. But I prefer to bolus 15 minutes before. Better results. But I always forget.
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      You are not alone my friend, you are not alone😬
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      When did you bolus for your most recent meal? If you bolused multiple times for your last meal, please select all that apply.
      Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) and gastroparesis (delayed stomach emptying) compel four answers: 15 minutes before, 15 after, 30 after, and over the next 2 hours. It is no longer a "Set an equation, measure the carbs, and dose" certainty. All bets are off and out the window. It’s less like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and more like constructing a new house as it sinks. 😣
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      If you use a CGM, do you currently have an adhesive overpatch on your sensor to help it stick?
      I don't remember the online order system EVER working. I always have to call Dexcom for overpatches, after I go through the wasted time of trying to order on the online site. They should save us all time and just take down the site.
    • 5 hours, 50 minutes ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      If you use a CGM, do you currently have an adhesive overpatch on your sensor to help it stick?
      Pretty much always do within 3-4 days of starting a new sensor. Also, has anyone else noticed that their online order form for these things has been broken for like a month or more?
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      If you use a CGM, do you currently have an adhesive overpatch on your sensor to help it stick?
      I use the over patches supplied by Dexcom. They work great.
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      If you use a CGM, do you currently have an adhesive overpatch on your sensor to help it stick?
      Absolutely 100% of the time. Not nearly as physical as I once was, but need to guarantee with ABSOLUTE certainty the @*(#@*# thing STAYS on, if I brush into anything, or get bumped into things....when it comes out early that is a lethal problem IMV
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      If you use a CGM, do you currently have an adhesive overpatch on your sensor to help it stick?
      I use the over patches supplied by Dexcom. They work great.
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      If you use a CGM, do you currently have an adhesive overpatch on your sensor to help it stick?
      Dexcom G6. ALWAYS with skin protectant (Cavilon) and Dexcom-supplied overpatches.
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      Absolutely 100% of the time. Not nearly as physical as I once was, but need to guarantee with ABSOLUTE certainty the @*(#@*# thing STAYS on, if I brush into anything, or get bumped into things....when it comes out early that is a lethal problem IMV
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      I do use them sometimes though, Especially when I’m traveling
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      I use Dexcom stinckers purely for decoration when I do wear one. But right now I don’t with it on my abdomen no one sees but me I don’t waste the extra stickers.
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      I usually bolus for breakfast right at the time I start eating. But I prefer to bolus 15 minutes before. Better results. But I always forget.
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      I usually bolus for breakfast right at the time I start eating. But I prefer to bolus 15 minutes before. Better results. But I always forget.
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      I am able to pr bolus for Breakfast and dinner as I am at home. I never know when I am going to eat at work so bolus is at start of meal.
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    If you or your child had T1D while in school, were your blood glucose (BG) levels typically impacted during tests or exams?

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    44 Comments

    1. Amanda Barras

      I didn’t check my blood sugar at school so I never knew what my bs was during the day. 89-2002 only time I had a check outside of breakfast and dinner was if I felt low, or extremely high. With the tech and tight control I have now I have no clue how I survived my youth flying by the seat of my pants like that. But, that was the norm.

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    2. Jneticdiabetic

      I was diagnosed with T1D as a freshman in college. I don’t remember a test specific blood glucose effect. Mostly remember challenges trying to avoid lows during class/lac experiments while on NPH injections.

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    3. Rosalind Kopfstein

      When I was in school – more than 65 years ago – testing blood sugar at home/ school did not exist.

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    4. Liz Avery

      I answered ‘other’ as my high school experience was prior to glucose meters, pumps, etc.
      we had urine test tape, and fasting blood sugars at a lab, but no self diagnostic tools. Times have improved.

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    5. Sarah Berry

      I was diagnosed on 1972. No blood sugar checks back then.

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    6. mojoseje

      Diagnosed in 1969 when there were you could only check urine at home or school.

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    7. pru barry

      Imagine bringing the catch basin, the eye dropper, the tablets, the test tubes, all that stuff to school and being able to face a class mate. Testing was definitely not today’s high art! I’m so grateful to have survived through all the improvements! And still think we should have an affordable, easier cure!

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      1. AnitaS

        Yep, I sure didn’t bring that equipment with me to school.

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    8. Ken Raiche

      Boy oh boy that was quite some time ago and unfortunately from what I can recall no noticeable changes. Now I’m sure if I had the tech that’s currently available I’d probably notice some impact or not. The other issue is I was new to the T1D 1973 and being young somewhat invincible and full of energy my body was able to cope with these scenarios much better then today. Awe to be young again……and retain the knowledge I have today.

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    9. Carolann Hunt

      Sometimes we were would let her run higher for standard tests so the alarms would not go off

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    10. Janice Bianchi-Lurati

      Didn’t have glucose meters or other equipment to test glucose readings in the 60’s.

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    11. Dennis Dacey

      There isn’t any way for me to accurately answer this question. Even when I received my latest degree at age 39, “blood sugar” testing results still took hours to react. Digital readout glucose meters were still years away.

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    12. Joan McGinnis

      I was diagnosed as an adult so never impacted me. However, my daughter when in high school (T1D)
      had only one low blood sugar ever at school and that was during a test. Someone noticed she was not moving and staring while taking her test, the proctor had someone accompany her to the nurse and she ate something and recovered to go back to her test taking.

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      1. AnitaS

        Something sort of happened to me like that when taking a math test in 8th grade. My teacher noticed I seemed confused and wasn’t answering any questions (I was always good in his math class). He called me up to his desk and went over the first question with me and I was able to continue the test with no problem. Since there was no blood glucose testing in the 1970’s, I really am not sure if my confusion was due to low sugar or not. My teacher probably didn’t know I was diabetic and even if he did, he may not have known confusion is a symptom of low blood sugar.

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    13. Lee Tincher

      There were not blood glucose meters available to me during my school years, even into college.

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    14. Keira Thurheimer

      I didn’t have any way to accurately measure my blood glucose when I was in school. I got my first bg meter after graduating from college.

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    15. Clare Fishman

      I did not have a way to monitor my blood sugar while in school. It was 1975-1982.

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    16. BOB FISK

      Ny answer to this is that I simply don’t know. Until 1980, almost 20 years after I became diabetic, there was no means for testing BG except from drawn blood in a lab. What I would usually do for an exam is to avoid low BG by eating more than I should. That way, it did not become a distraction during an exam.

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    17. Bonnie kenney

      I was diagnosed in 1974….no cgm’s.

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    18. Lisa Miller

      I did not have anyway to check my sugars in school,in the year 1971 at the age of 5;yes old.

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    19. Denise Carter

      When I was in school, there was no blood glucose testing!!!!

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    20. Tom Caesar

      Can’t know, before glucose meters or accurate testing were invented! Went to Bedrock High, ha!

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      1. cynthia jaworski

        same here

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    21. cynthia jaworski

      I hadd a friend in college (early 1970s) who had gone into DKA several times during exam weeks.

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    22. Britni

      I don’t remember a pattern. For standardized tests I tried to drive my blood sugar up to avoid lows and there was one time it worked a little too well and I nearly wet myself. And once in 4th grade my blood sugar went low enough during a spelling test that I blacked out and had to take it over again. But those two instances were the extremes, not the norm.

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    23. Donald Cragun

      When I was in school, home blood glucose tests were not available. I never went to the hospital before and after school tests to determine how school tests affected blood glucose tests.

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    24. MT

      At home blood glucose monitors were not available when I was in school.

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    25. Richard Vaughn

      I was in school and college 1945-1963. I did not have a glucometer until 1985.

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      1. Keith LeMar

        Same here Richard

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    26. AnitaS

      I didn’t have blood glucose testing through all of the grades from 3rd grade to 12th grade as urine testing was all that was available. I started blood testing while in college but to tell you the truth, I don’t recall how much my blood sugars fluctuated.

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    27. George Lovelace

      Ditto to Richard Vaughn and AnitaS

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    28. Scott Doerner

      No bg meters whe I was in school

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    29. Keith LeMar

      I was diagnosed in 1966 and when I was in school grade school I had no idea what my BG was because glucose meters didn’t exist then.

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    30. Bob Durstenfeld

      I said lower, because I think so, but BG meters and CGM did not exist when I was in school. [65 yrs with T1D]

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    31. Janis Senungetuk

      My school years were long before home bg testing was available. I only know I was running on low because of the symptoms I experienced while taking the SAT exam in 1963, the GRE in 1975, my MA Comprehensive, where my written answer to an essay question became more illegible as I tried to control muscle spasms and ended up falling out of the chair. I brought a Coke with me to my MFA orals, just in case, but fortunately didn’t need it.

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    32. jpowarz86@gmail.com

      I don’t know what my sugar was in school. that was the 1970’s and there was no way to test my blood sugar at home except urine sticks and they were not accurate.

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    33. Edward Geary

      Honestly, I was so burned out from working a job and attending college, that I barely noticed what my BG was only that it was never remotely low.

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    34. Becky Hertz

      There were no meters when i was in school. Peed on a stick.

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    35. Lenora Ventura

      I didn’t have an extra meter to test while at school. Not until I started using Dexcom in 2008, was I able to see in-time cause and effect to everything. If tests did effect me either way, I never knew.

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    36. Christine Zinn

      When I was attending school, at home glucose testing was not available.

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    37. Kristine Warmecke

      I did not have meter until I was in high school, that’s when insurance began covering them. In the mid 80’s. I honestly don’t remember if they were affected.

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    38. Abraham Remson

      I didn’t have T1D until I was a freshman in collage

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    39. Krystal Udey

      I didn’t have a cgm while I was in Elementry or Middle school. I also didn’t have the knowledge I have know about controling my BG. If there were fluctuations during tests i had no idea at the time that the stress was causing the issue.

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    40. Chris Deutsch

      I had T1D in high school and college, but it was pre-home glucose monitoring! I d not recall any incidents…

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