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Permalink Reply by chuck e funn on July 16, 2011 at 9:23pm

i love my dexcom but i would tell you this its works 75% percent of the time but dont throw away your one touch just quite yet

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Permalink Reply by jims on November 6, 2012 at 2:20pm

Amen to that. One really needs to hang onto the caveman fingerprick machine as a check against weird readings on the Dexcom as it is attempting to track interstitial tissue blood under rapid changes/or sleeping/weight on the tissues near the sensor.

More than once I had to grab the caveman machine and find the Dexcom unhelpful. Like the other person said readings were good 75% of the time.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Devlin on December 31, 2011 at 10:50am

Good advice from Korrie.
The first time I did this, almost two years ago, I accidently clicked, "Shutdown", instead of ,"Stop Sensor". Careful not to make this mistake.

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Permalink Reply by Lori on September 29, 2012 at 1:26am

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Permalink Reply by QQMary on January 15, 2013 at 4:11am

Hi All,

I just got my dexcom today too and fully charged. Am eager to try it but a few quick questions though - it requires 2 BG for initial calibration, the 1st is 2 hours after initial setup but when do you input the 2nd one?

will it prompt you for the 2nd calibration?

Is it okay to wear it on my thighs? i'm 20 weeks pregnant and prefer not to wear the transmitter on my abdomen. any suggestion on alternative sites?

Thanks in advance..

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Permalink Reply by jims on January 15, 2013 at 6:53am

Upper arms work for me, other use thigh's.

Abdomen useless for me with wrong misleading results.

Studying anatomy of abdomen make one wonder on choice of abdomen for accuracy!

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