The Dexcom G6 Can Read Your Blood Sugar Without Any Blood | CNBC
The Dexcom G6 Can Read Your Blood Sugar Without Any Blood | CNBC
Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitor doesn’t require any blood to monitor blood sugar levels. CNBC’s Erin Black, who has Type 1 Diabetes, puts it to the test to see if it’s as accurate as previous glucose monitors that require a finger prick and blood.
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This Diabetes Monitor Can Read Your Blood Sugar Without Any Blood | CNBC
I have Type 1 diabetes, which means my body doesn’t produce any insulin. So I have to inject insulin to regulate my blood sugar and check my levels by using a glucometer. This means I have to stick my finger with a needle anywhere from 5 to 10 times a day.
Dexcom provided me with a review unit of its new G6 continuous glucose monitor that’s approved by the FDA to require no blood at all.
CGMs allow diabetics to see their blood sugar throughout the day and night with a sensor that is inserted under the skin. Previously, CGMs needed a blood glucose reading in order to calibrate the device.
The new Dexcom G6 comes factory-calibrated and requires no finger stick. I’ve been wearing the device for nine days and I am really impressed with it.
G6 combined with the T-Slim is amazing. Especially since control IQ came out.
My dad has type 2 diabetes and uses a Dexcom sencer:
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Of the sensor is under the skin it comes s using blood duh I am a nerd
What happen after the 10 days of used? Is trash? Where can I buy this?
How much does it cost?
My mother fingers are swollen. Because of arthritis. Her insurance wont cover this. Is there any way the company will help the people that has no insurance to get the device? She does have a doctor order
More accurate too!
I’m in Australia and it still isn’t released here yet!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2597669283801999/
IS THIS WATER PROOF SENSORS.
I don’t have diabetes but am interested in getting a continuous glucose monitor to check my blood sugar level for health reasons. I’d love to see how what I eat affects my sugar level. Plus, I’d love to see how exercise affects my sugar level. How much is this? Are the sensors reusable? Can we just reuse them as Erin did (she made a cut-out black-tape adhesive).
I wish there is a CGM that can export the charts/data into some non-proprietary format, like a spreadsheet.
how many days does it last?
I have what I thought was athletes feet. And am really starting to think it’s diabetes’s now. I am extremely nervous now
Why the down votes? I’ve been thinking about going the CGM route for years now and I thought this was pretty useful info.
Also this still uses blood, just a subcutaneous injection and a monitor embedded in your skin. Yikes.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!
If you have Medicaid insurance don’t even bother because they won’t cover it.
So stupid
Dr.s are saying puh ssies
The Libre sensor lasts for 2 weeks, there’s also the Libre link smartphone app that does the same thing more or less as the above over nfc..
From where I can get?
How to buy
Freestyle Libre sticks lot better to skin
Price????
43 years with type 1 and this 6th generation Dexcom is the best thing I’ve tried! Fantastic!
Thank you for giving me a way, with your video, to show my people how it works!!!
I tried the dexcom. It hurt like hell in the right side of my stomach. After four hours, I couldn’t take it anymore, so I switched to the left side. Hurt like hell there too. I sent it back the next day. I can’t take something stuck in me for more than a couple seconds. I see their commercial with a gal saying, "it’s totally painless". My ass. I know better. That was about two years ago. I don’t know if they’ve come out with a smaller dagger, I mean wire rammed into your skin.
Cannot shower lol
Where can buy it online to egypt
It can be improved. It’s not good enough. Google and Apple can really help in this matter.
Do we need to take off the sensor during shower?
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So grateful it exists."
Desperate to get a hold of the dexcom. The G6 isn’t going to be covered by my national health care any time soon, and the G5 was cut recently because someone ‘forgot to put it on the list’. Meaning hundreds of diabetics had to switch to different cgms. Now the only readily available dexcom is the G4 which was FDA approved in 2015, but compared to the G6 is way out of date.
Except it’s insanely expensive even with PPO insurance.
Don’t know why I can not purchase this online from Australia. I’m not asking for an insurance handout. I would think it should be up to me. Anyway bring out the G7
How can i purchase it, please guide me.
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Does it hurt?
Yeah what about the price? It is for rich only.
Well I think we all know what Black Mirror will have in store for us this season?
I still finger stick once or twice a day with the G6, because one time last April or May, I went without doing so for three days. I don’t exactly remember what the G6 told me my blood sugar was trending at, but I think it was somewhere between 150 and 180. So, I took a midterm exam for my topology class (this was in my final year of undergrad as a math major) and I couldn’t remember a damn thing I studied. Mind you, I’m the kind of person who gets straight A’s when healthy. I never asked what my score was, but I was sure I flunked and I wound up dropping the class a few days after. Turns out, the G6 was lying and my blood sugar was over 350 with extra large ketones. I probably should’ve been at the hospital, not taking a closed-notes exam for a first-year-Master’s-level course. Don’t believe everything a company tells you about the degree of capability of their product.
Way too expensive
To bad it’s like 400 dollars
Say i accidentle poked myself after i poked my mom..im i good
First of all, why would you get a diabetic tattoo?
I have had type one diabetes for 5 years. And I really want this😥
HOW TO BUY THIS?
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So grateful it exists in 2020."