Dexcom G4 - Everything you need to know

Hello, to those who have the G4 Platinum.Is it necessary to calibrate it every day, or with the first calibration is enough?
How many hair glycemia controls do you have to do?Is it enough to make one in the morning and another at night?
Thank you!!!!

@Enrique The XDrip battery should appear on the main screen under the glucose value.Both in the XDrip App of Android and on the Nightcout website.By the way, Enrique, there is a specific XDrip thread in the forum.
@Morgana you have to calibrate with the G4 Plat 2 times a day (every 12 hours), try to do it when your glucose is stable.Capillary blood glucose control must be done before putting insulin, that is, at least breakfast-food-cena.I do not put insulin in my body without capillary or joke medication ... although the dexcom is great and I am very happy with the

You have to calibrate it in theory every 12 hours, then 2 daily controls, yes or yes.Apart if there are declines, etc ... It is true that you do less controls but the important thing is the information it gives.

I have a couple of doubts the same very dumb, but I've been around him for a while

You sunbathe with the sensor on or heat up and there is any failure?It is my first summer with Dexcom and Diabetes, to see how

What margins do you have positions?I have 200 and 100, when I get out of 100 I overwhelm and as something, I should wait for it to go down more, but I'm afraid that 100 goes down without realizing more than desired.

Thank you

As indicated, you have to calibrate every 12 h when the glucose is stable, that indicates the instructions.

Hello everyone, tomorrow three weeks ago I have been the Dexcom and for the moment it is great, yesterday even made a plenary with the glucometer and marked the same.
To those who are interested, to tell you that we try the kinesiotope strips, and it is great, it already changed it once and hard as a well stuck week, we cut it with the shape of the transmitter and as it is elastic it adapts great, it lasts a lot of stuck andIt didn't give me allergy.I have it in pink and blue but there is all colors even meat.And on top of that, although they gave it to me, I think it comes out barathly, so if someone proves it will already tell me.
All the best

Hello again, after exactly one month with the Dexcom, tonight the sensor definitely died and I already put the second.We are very happy and encourage anyone who hesitates to buy it.If it is true, it has its things, but you are knowing it and caught the truquillo little by little.
We are aware that the next one may not last so long but still taking care of it, I think you can get an average of three weeks without problems.
By the way with the kinesiotope strips it is phenomenal, it is elastic and endures a lot stuck, you change it more to see it new and clean than for something else.
Veronica14, about sunbathing, we called to ask why we had the same doubt and they told me that there is no problem, that in any case, if you start toast that you cover it a little but to go walking or whateverWe don't worry.
all the best.

Thank you very much @brenda

Hi @brenda, when you talk about putting the kinesiotope strips, do you put them by bordering the sensor or how do we do those of Hydrofilm leaving a hole in the middle ???I ask if it is easy to make the hole in the strip
Greetings to all and thanks

Hello Nacho, I explain you, the issue is that the roll they gave me measures 5 cm and is a bit fair (the next one I will see if I get it wider), I put one below making half a cut for the transmitter and above riding aLittle, another with its cuts also for the transmitter.In this sensor I have tried to simple it with the hole in the middle and stands out above and below as 6 millimeters nothing more, so I will try if it is enough, if not to put another as it explains before you already is.What I advise you is that as I paste, it slopes well, that you never take it off the original of the sensor, because it takes it off from the skin with the risk of loading the sensor, I advise you to put another one on top and it is alreadyIn the previous sensor I changed it three times and I saw that the original patch was breaking and taking off from the skin, it is better to glue another on top.And the rounded corners to last longer.If not, we always have to hit how little it takes off with the wipes that are going great.
If I get it I put a photo.
Let's see if someone is encouraged to try it because it is really cheap and phenomenal.

@Veronica14 @brenda nothing happens absolutely because it is giving the sun 24 h to the emitter (well 24 h of sun there is no here).
I have been almost 5 years old, before now G4.Here on the coast we are bathing from today to the end of September, at least, I have been a whole day in the sun and nothing has happened.
Do not complicate life covering it.

?The arms cleared and be able to go like this in braces.I do not sunbach much of sun, but I am more concerned about the theme water, sea, pool, to be soaked all day.But with the opinion of our 5 -year expert @jconegar I stay calmer :)

@Valky really without any problem because it is all the day, I can assure you that more hours than me not many.In case you want to hide it, I was taking it for a while in the upper part of the butt (there it lasted almost three weeks), of course we do not usually wear tight swimsuits me at least, but when I put the culot of the bike that goes the ass goesA good I looked there a lump that people were going to my ass, looked like a piece of crowding grain hahaha.I did not do it to hide it but to try new areas.

@Valky lost, I forget to comment and I don't feel like editing.Regarding the water here we are already bathing on the beach, I at least, and so we are until September.Ensure more if you will have to do it, but it does not spoil because it is in salt water or in pool with chlorine.In the water you already know that the receiver does not read if the emitter is inside the water, I say it because of the issue of bringing the sender in a stagnant case and putting it with you to the beach.

Well then I will be calmer with the sun.Regarding that it looks at me, I don't care, I take it in the belly and put a bikini without any complex, and that the color of what I put on is Cantoso pink, but I do not care that they look no.
About the water, Jconegar, I understand that you bathe with the receiver also put in a case?But if you say that it loses the connection within the water, it is not better to leave it out?I have doubts about what to do with it during the bathroom.

@brenda I carry the Animas bomb that carries receiver included, so I know that he does not read it.The pump is aquatic and bathes with me, I am very angry that the value is not seen if the emitter is inside the water, but it is what there is.
Before carrying the pump, he took the receiver to the beach always in a watertight case and stayed out of the water, it is nonsense to put it.

So you don't know during the bath time that happens but he doesn't spend so much time inside the water, so nothing happens
I'm already seeing it as the days go by.
Thank you

@Brenda is what I have told you, the receiver that carries the pump is the same data reading and understanding system (well different versions but work the same) and the same communication system as the receiver.If the emitter is inside the water you have to forget to know the value.

The truth is that I was surprised, I always thought that I would be in the water and someone could control my values, especially in the case of children it would be ideal but if it does not go, we are going to do it.
Of course, if you don't say it, I would get convinced that it would work.
It is well to comment for those of us who are new to the Dexcom, so thanks Jconegar.
Changing the subject, can someone tell me how to put the name of a user to get the warning?Is putting in front of the name @?

@brenda is like that to reach someone you have written about Him you have to put in front, and you also get a menu where the name appears.