I am so excited!!! Dexcom called today to say that insurance approved it! I paid right then & it should be here Thursday! We can watch the tutorials online & start ourselves or contact the regional educator to come help us get started. I'm thinking we'll start on our own.
Dexcom Seven+ is the name our CGM or continuous glucose monitoring system. It is a sensor that is worn under the skin (another site). It doesn't inject anything. It just measures the glucose in the fluid under the skin. The fluid doesn't change as quickly as blood glucose, so a finger prick is still more accurate. Four finger pricks a day are still necessary to callibrate the system, so they won't disappear. The key advantage is that the receiver will display & graph the glucose reading every few minutes! Not only can we see if his sugar is 88, but we can tell if it's 88 & steady, 88 & climbing, or 88 & dropping super fast! We can set alarms to go off at certain numbers so that we can intervene if it's going to low or too high. I hope it will have a dramatic impact on his A1c in December. We go back to Vanderbilt the 30th, so it should be interesting to see the difference. Right now, we are supposed to run Andrew around 150 at night to avoid lows in his sleep (still had 2 this last week). With the alarm, I hope to bring that number down!
Thursday was actually a rough day. Andrew was sick & running ketones all day. Then Ben had a series of bloody diapers (again), so the doctor tested for celiac, which runs in the same endocrine family as type 1. She also tested for Crohn's, another not nice autoimmune disease. We still don't have results in on him.
That is exciting news.
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