Saturday 28 August 2010

CGM photos

I'm being brave and showing the world my midriff...


Close up - yep, the sticky stuff is looking just LOVELY and it's only been 48 hours! The black, left hand part holds the sensor, which is just a small micro-chip like thing with an extra prong that sits under my skin by 4mm. The grey part is the transmittor.


The receiver, as of about 20 minutes ago. BG test says I'm actually in the 9s, but according to this I've been in the 11s and 12s all morning.


And over the past 24 hours? Stayed pretty high with a couple of nice swings.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow. that is a pretty bulky CGM. mines tiny compared to that :O
try the medtronic one, it's soooo good, although all of them aren't that reliable and should never be relied on solely. the sticky stuff is always a horrible thing. i hate it. it makes my skin itch, and sometimes i end up going to the pharmacy and buying more comfortable, but unfortunatly, not waterproof patches to put over it out of my own pocket, GOOD LUCKKK <3

Anonymous said...

wow. that is a pretty bulky CGM. mines tiny compared to that :O
try the medtronic one, it's soooo good, although all of them aren't that reliable and should never be relied on solely. the sticky stuff is always a horrible thing. i hate it. it makes my skin itch, and sometimes i end up going to the pharmacy and buying more comfortable, but unfortunatly, not waterproof patches to put over it out of my own pocket, GOOD LUCKKK <3

Siobhan said...

Hey anonymous, who are you??

As I'm just borrowing this from the hospital, I don't get a choice in what I'm given.