[Diabetes] General Chat and Support Thread

Not for the hba1c itself BUT your doctor may want other tests at the same time that do require fasting. Best thing is to check with the doctor that requested the tests.

Had a good visit with the diabetes clinic this week. HbA1c at its best level in years. I'm shifting my focus over to Time in Range now to try to tweak a few improvements.

We as a community complain enough, and rightly so, when services are poor but don't comment enough when things are good; I have to say the staff in particular and the service in general in the St.James' Diabetic Day Care Centre (Dublin) are excellent. Fair play to them.

They seem a lot more open to prescribing CGMs in the system nowadays. I see no reason why they should say no. If you don't ask, you almost certainly won't get

Dexcom G6 is good for that and seems to be prescribed a lot more freely now

I wonder when we will see the Dexcom G7 replace the G6 here

It's good it's smaller seems to have the transmitter built into the sensor and the time for sensor to warmup is down to 30 minutes or less. New app as well glad to see the person who develops the build your own app is working on this as well

TypeOneTalks put together this informative video

@iamwhoiam Info on this reddit thread from the developer and the form to fill out think it's only for Android but works well.

The form you put in email and answer questions about Android version if US or International measurement unit and different options about alerts which I would leave at default for your daughter you will get emailed a link to download the app and you might on the phone enable install from unknown source.

That's about it I use it on my phone it works fine. Just if you have to ring Dexcom for support they won't help with unsupported phones

Hi Everyone, would appreciate your help. Would anyone have a spare transmitter which will work with Enlite sensor lying somewhere in the drawer?

I had a similar issue over the lockdown but not as severe. Dietitian suggested to me recently that's it probably not the basal insulin but the bolus and/or the food intake and its timing.

Possibly more helpfully though have you tried Levemir? It has a (roughly) 12 hour action rather than the supposed 24 hour action of other basal insulins, so you take it in a split dose, twice a day. In reality most basal insulins don't last 24 hours so depending on the timing of your shot, you might be experiencing a drop off of the basal stuff for some period of the day. The switch definitely worked for me, sorting the inexplicable mid-day highs I was getting. May be completely irrelevant in your case but could be worth exploring with your clinic, etc?

@Snake Plisken

Beaumont is replacing G6 prescriptions with ones for the G7 now. I assume everywhere else is doing the same.

I'm still using my G6. When this transmitter has done its time I'll be moving on to the G7. Because the G7 is one single piece and not a separate Transmitter and sensor you get the full thing from your pharmacy. No waiting for Dexcom to send you your quarterly transmitter.

I'm not sure what kind of price the HSE have negotiated. I don't have a pump myself, but they could well integrate it later. If I had a pump that would be another thing to consider but I still inject like those in days of old. Not actually sure why I never bothered to look into a pump. If you're pumping and have your pump talking to the G6 you might want to hold off on the switch.