When you meet with your provider online via a telehealth visit, how do they review your insulin and blood glucose data?

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  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
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  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
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  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
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  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
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  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 48 seconds ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
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  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  only time that I have been sick was when I got COVID during Jan '22. my sugars were going crazy high and I couldn't understand why but when I tested positive for COVID, in retrospect it made sense.
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  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  My experience having had diabetes for 29 years.
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  kim bullock has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  My experience having had diabetes for 29 years.
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  kim bullock has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  My experience having had diabetes for 29 years.
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  kim bullock has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  My experience having had diabetes for 29 years.
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  kim bullock has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  My experience having had diabetes for 29 years.
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  kim bullock has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  My experience having had diabetes for 29 years.
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When you meet with your provider online via a telehealth visit, how do they review your insulin and blood glucose data?

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Samantha Robinson

They typically ask me to go in a few days before my virtual visit to do lab work and download my device data – then we can talk about it at my virtual visit!

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James Goldman

I am not involved with any telehealth meetings as I visit with my endocrinologist quarterly.

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Sue Martin

Besides having them be connected to Clarity, I download my InPen data and email it to them beforehand so we can review that together. They seemed to find that data more helpful in determining that my insulin ratio may be off.

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Gerald Oefelein

N/A. I’ve always met in-person with my endocrinologist.

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Steve Rumble

My visits, telehealth or in person, are preceded by lab tests and that is the data we discuss.

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Richard Vaughn

I had a virtual visit with my endo only two times, many months ago. I am back to seeing her in her office, and my pump and CGM are downloaded there.

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Natalie Daley

We’ve always met in person.

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Jodi Greenfield

I upload data to my computer, print out reports and send them through the mail. This is the easiest way because of technical incompatibility with their computer system. I can also read the up-to-the-minute data off my sensor & pump over the phone.

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Bob Durstenfeld

My doctor uses an app called Glooko, it tracks my pump, CGM, diet, exercise and comment, all in one place.

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Janis Senungetuk

The clinic has access to my pump/CGM data thru t:connect. If any labs are needed I get them done at a clinic several day before my appointment.

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Pauline M Reynolds

My computer tells me I can’t download the data, so I visit the Dr.’s office, give them my pump in the waiting room, and they read it for the next day’s phone visit. Cumbersome, I know.

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1. AnitaS
  
  I hope for your sake that your doctor’s office isn’t too far away. Do you have a person who can come look at your computer and determine what is going on?
  
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2. ConnieT1D62
  
  Why are you driving to the provider office to download your data and then have a telehealth visit? Seems like a waste of time.
  
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Sharon Lillibridge

i haver sn a!C drawn ev ery 3 months

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Becky Hertz

Other – I download my data to Tidepool and shared with my endo, for my one telehealth visit. But my previous clinic liked you to download your data before your on person visit as well.
My new clinic does it the “old fashioned” way, they download my pump and pull up my Clarity info.

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kristina blake

I upload via T-Connect every month (for my use) and it is automatically forward to the Endo practice. I truly appreciate doing it this way. In the past (with a fortunately former endo) they took my pump, did their thing getting the data at the office. But…this one endo would change all my settings, and not tell me. I am aggressive in my T1D mgt, and when I couldn’t get under 150 bg (I don’t allow myself to go above 140) it occurred to me to check the settings. They were changed! So using T-Connect avoids that scenario. I was livid.

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1. AnitaS
  
  That is terrible. Your doctor should have just suggested a change which you could have discussed with him/her.
  
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Kevin McCue

I do not do Telegraph nor am I interested in it currently, maybe someday.

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Janelle Schmitz

I have it set up that my son’s data is uploaded to Clarity and Glooko automatically. I don’t have to do anything extra before our appointments. The doctors/nurses have all the information available to them and have the screens available to pull up and discuss during our visit whether it is in-person or virtual.

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Rose Lentzke

I go to the endocrinologist’s office and have them download the data before my appointment. I have a problem when I do it my self.

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Kristine Warmecke

Until this past Monday, I downloaded from tSlim and we go over them together. Monday and everyday since then, on mine and a brother’s computer, it will not download. According to Tandem, it’s my pump, so a replacement is arriving tomorrow.

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AnitaS

I answered that I download my data to my devices application (T-connect) and then my endo can look over the data through her computer. However that is what I would do if my appt. was virtual but I don’t believe I have ever had a virtual appt. with her.

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PamK

I have never met with my provider online via a telehealth visit. I don’t believe his office offers these, though I wish they would.

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Molly Jones

This doesn’t apply to me as we meet in person.
For our in person appts I download T:connect two days before my appointments and they have access to my Dexcom.

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ConnieT1D62

NA. I have never met with my endocrine provider via telehealth. I see her in person every three months. If I need to contact her in between, we use email or text.

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Nicholas Argento

As someone who has a very high percentage of people on devices, I can tell everyone that whether you are seen in office or remotely, it is invaluable to download before a visit, or have a service that does so automatically when working, like Dexcom Clarity, T:connect, Medtronic Carelink, or LibreView. This saves valuable time during any type of visit, and eliminates the need for someone else to handle your device. We do whatever works- some people (or their families) who don’t have remote capability or don’t like it sometimes bring the device in ahead of time if they are local, regardless of whether it is tele-med or in person. But most we set up a service- Glooko, Tidepool are also ones that work for multiple devices.

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Stang777

Even in person the doc has never gone over my data and I see no reason the doc should. I do not use a pump or CGM, so it would be going through my meter or my logs and that is not what my appointments are for. All they have to do is ask me how my levels have been and have I been having any problems, and that is what they do. If I didn’t already have a bunch of reasons for not having a pump and CGM, having to had over that data to anyone, including a doc, would be the reason I would not get those devices. If they can’t just take the info from me, and have to have the “proof” from my device, then I want nothing to do with them. If they can’t trust me, and what I tell them, it would only be because they are not trustworthy as I have done nothing to earn their distrust. They don’t need to see my data unless I am having problems I can’t figure out and are asking them to look at my data to help me figure it out.

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