Pamela Abbruzzese

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  Tom Rintelmann has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  Definates my upper arm. Especially during sweaty summer m9nths
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  Steven Gill has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  My lone complaint with the Medtronic Guardian system is it takes two hands to put on. While sites differing than the abdomen are accepted, living alone I'm cheating. Am whispering: using my inner thigh with satisfaction. Not suggested or approved towards the regulators but works well. And I can easily put on.
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  Bonnie Lundblom has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  After many years of inaccurate Dexcom readings on my abdomen I started using only the back of my arms with much more accurate readings. I look forward to the Dexcom CGM 7 which is to be placed on the arms.
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  Diana L. has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  I am using de Dexcom G6 at the front of my thigh and get good readings. I was not getting accurate readings on my abdomen.
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  Jim Cobbe has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  I'm not sure I understand the question: I have only ever used my CGM (Dexcom G6, which is reasonably accurate except for in the first 24 -36 hours of new sensor use, and sometimes near the end of a sensor session) on the approved area, namely abdomen. How was I supposed to answer the question in that case?
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  Thomas Cline has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  I've found that the best place for my DEXCOM is just between the side and top of my upper arm. The key thing is to keep from leaning on it when I sleep, and that position works wonderfully for me. But I also have to take care to avoid a vein, since when I don't, I've gotten a heck of a lot of bleeding. Oddly, that bleeding didn't seem to affect readings too much, in contrast to bleeding when I place the sensor on my abdomen where DEXCOM says it should go (but of course their limitations are only based on where they did their clinical trials, not where the sensor may actually work best for you). Each person really needs to experiement for their own bodies and sleeping position(s).
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  Jen Farley has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  Try your triceps, I have way better readings there. They say abdominal area but my endocrinologist said use what works and double check it with finger tests.
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  Jen Farley has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  I was told only abdominal area but always get better readings on my triceps. My endocrinologist said use what works, I alternate the sites.
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  Becky Hertz has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  Margin of error for Dexcom is +/- 20% so the numbers you've listed could be within range. Remember, sensors (all of them) reads interstitial fluid not while blood and can be being behind meter trading up to 20 minutes.
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  Becky Hertz has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  Lower thigh.
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  Annie Simon has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  Following recommended placement of my Freestyle Libre2 by Abbott and alternate arms every 2 weeks and apply on back of upper arm(triceps)
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  William Bennett has commented in the same post you commented in :
  CGM sensors are only approved for specific areas of the body, but many people use other locations. If you use a CGM, do you have an area of your body where you feel you get the most accurate sensor readings? Select all that apply!
  Seems like Dexcom sensors have become a LOT more prone to "compression low" false alarms recently. Never a problem for me until this past year or so. Which sucks bc as a side-sleeper neither abdomen nor back of the upper arm, which I've been using since I started CGM some 10 yrs ago, are immune to that effect, which seems worse the first 3-4 days of a sensor. So my current sensor I finally bit the bullet and tried inserting on the front of my upper arm, overcoming my fear that it would be a painful spot, not having a lot of fat and muscle being close to the surface. But so far it's doing really well. Didn't hurt and is well out of the way of being pushed on when I lie on my side.
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