Excellent review, first of all thank you for bothering you in writing it.However, I disagree in certain parts.
First of all, the "problem" to take off, it seems to me the most normal in the world, that is, there are no miracles, or I would not wait for them, any dressing, before or then, falls, we will advance in manyThings, but in that, I think not.
Of course you will end up as you commented at the time with the Dexcom, "mummifying" in some way or another, you have to devise some system.The arm is certainly a complicated area, even if you sweat less.It is complicated because in my view, it cannot be used in summer, or when you wear short sleeve, because it is a way of stigmatizing the diabetic (and I am clear that the Abbott even if they say no, it has to be able to put in the bellyor another site, since if for whatever it is, it is mandatory in the arm, for me, I insist, for me, bad matter in 3 months of the year -Galicia is not Seville, but those who live in the south ...-)And you know what I speak, people do not stop looking at you, and look at it, there is no need to provoke that, and secondly, put the bandage as someone has commented, you need help, although sometimes we manage to do it, certainly, theBetter results is with help.
In my case, the Fixomull and the designed sponge works perfectly to me, I also have to say that this is learned with practice.The same as not stretching more than the sensor really works well, I have also learned these almost 7 years from Dexcom, to protect the sensor at the same time of putting it, nothing to endure until it starts to take off, etc ...I put new, I can sleep one night without fixomull, but the next day, perfectly stuck I already put it with the sponge, and there it stays until the end.Again, for me, fight to stop, special glue (which I already tried), etc ... is to waste time, but I insist, each person is a world.
And returning to the device itself ... I remain very skeptical, and almost pessimistic with any manufacturer (Dexcom takes us as fools ... and with the G4 even much more! What a goal they put us, they laugh at us).
We are not going to enter the debate of whether it is continuous measurement or not, for you it can be, for me, no ... let's say it is continuous measurement ... in deferred :)
You comment that the measurement is simple, and it seems so ... passing the receiver through the arm ... and that even so easy that you even pass it almost 50 times a day! This sounds great to me, but, but, butAnd I get pessimistic or realistic ... I think, and I think, that this sounds good with the novelty, the test, the first days ... that you comment, over time it will be a nuisance! Notice thatIn my case, sometimes, just look at the Dexcom screen when I whistle, it laziness, I am entertaining in gardening in my house ... whistle ... "now you don't bother me" ....
Honestly, what you now look so frequently, the reality is that in the day to day you will end up "passing" enough, that is, you will have quite spaced measurements and values, which will serve as a reference to know what you did, the result, etc ... Without a doubt, but that at all it will serve as continuous measurement in order to avoid hypos or hypers, because you will not have looked at it.
If you have to spend 50 times a day, which are every 15 minutes for eg for 12 hours ... to have usable arrows and values in continuous measurement ... you end up being a slave of the device.I insist, in the end, over time, the boredom will take its toll, that is my experience.
And not only that, having to make that "simple" movement can "touch your noses", running, or for my experience, I go on a motorcycle ... I take the Dexcom in view in an overdexy bag or in thePocket, which I take with one hand and see value ... It is not comfortable, it is more comfortable than a glucose measurement, of course, but as a continuous medication, I already tell you that it is not.
And returning to the price, I continue to say that it is expensive, and that Dexcom is charisimo but proportionally, equally expensive (more expensive, but surveillance).
And with this as you ask you in another message ... analyze this situation:
The SS facilitates the continuous meter you want, at cost 0. Which one do you stay?Then we are already talking about the price, important, but not of benefits.
And I add ... the Dexcom Seven Plus, with almost 7 years in the market, still looks like "superior", and more, if Dexcom wanted to compete, to get the Seven Plus again at a smaller price (it is a meterWith monochrome screen, without politicians, etc ...), and sells the sensors at 300 euros, Abbott is out of play.
Because not only the Seven Plus to Abbot seems superior, it seems superior to G4, perhaps not in operation with an unapprecable difference in values, if not cost, the "shit" of the transmitter and its 10 months ... Pufff ...More (if they improve something clearly and reduce cost, transmits that last 2-3 years, etc ... then I will find it justified).If you make the numbers with a Seven Plus and a transmitter that lasts that ... the monthly cost is almost the same as the Abbott.
What happens is that as you say ... they take us out the iPhone4 ... now the same 5 that has a much better screen, but in the light of day it looks worse and the battery lasts less ... and like crazyTo buy it ...
Dexcom is teaching us, I think about it deeply ... imposing changes that clearly benefit them, and we are very important disbursement, in exchange for absolutely marginal improvements.
About prices ... what has been said, you have to analyze everything with tweezers, and make numbers.Nor should we be blinded with "promotions" of launch (remember Dexcom also did so at the time, Seven or G4 included), because ... 60 euros is a definitive price?then will it have another?60 euros per sensor now and always?or is it offer?In the case of the sensors, I am clear that it will always be so, or they will have to lower them more, since as I say, cheap, they are not at all.
On the devices, indeed the purchase of the Dexcom is infinitely more expensive, but ... it can be cheaper, right now the fellow Fer of the forum, is for sale a Dexcom and I know that at a good price.
And hopefully the people who use Dexcom changed to Abbott ... Second -hand devices will begin to appear at a good price, even subscription sensors or people who had them saved, little more than Abbott's sensors ....
What I think - and already had news - is that sooner or later, the Abbott will enter, it seems likely and logical, Abbott as a laboratory that sells strips, may present the convenient offer for the one that uses more than 5 toDay for example ... Dexcom is an American laboratory, focused on its market, and also has no other glucia products or meters.As soon as the SS gives it to it, there, between paying almost 200 euros per month, and not paying anything, it is clear!
Let's win, all ... :)
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