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  • Honestly I don’t calibrate almost ever, so I should really clarify that my symptoms match my sensor glucose most of the time. I do see the occasional too-fast-to-believe change, but that’s usually at the end of a session and either corrects itself or is too small of a change to affect my decision making. I’ve been on a cgm for about a year, but have been diabetic for 28 and I must admit that my glucose monitoring before the cgm was horrible, so accurate or not for me it’s a major improvement. using tandem control IQ closed loop is what has made the biggest impact on my a1c ever.



  • It is definitely an interesting idea. I’ve lived through failed promises of glucose readings contact lenses and watches, I’m not sure exactly why they fail but it’s made me pessimistic about things like that. I think anything new will have a hard time competing with current cgms unless it can be worn continuously for a month and/or doesn’t puncture the skin at all. For the type 1 market, patients already have to puncture the skin all the time to deliver insulin and most get used to it. The interstitial fluid measurement seems to be standard for cgms, so it’s on par in that regard.