Fun With Sensors, Part 2

Well, this is three days later. The second sensor did manage to last all three days. And so I went onto the Carelink website (https://carelink.minimed.com/patient/entry.jsp?bhcp=1) and uploaded all the data from the sensor. It's so cool! You can see exactly what your blood sugar did! (And here I thought it was just cool to see it on the meter - seeing it for all three days is awesome!!!!)

Playing around a little bit with the various reports that the website can generate, I got it to generate a report that shows what percentage of blood sugars were too high or too low! The only problem that I had was that it will not give me the data from today. So I'm going to have to re-upload everything after midnight tonight to get that information.

The two problems that I had these last two days mostly concerned the transmitter (thankfully, the sensor was fine). The first was that it kept coming off of my body - I used the sticky-stuff that they gave me with the transmitter to attach it. This stuff was too small, and didn't want to stay. I solved that problem by buying larger stuff, called Tegaderm. Two pieces kept the transmitter in place no problem (while I had gone through about 5 pieces of the other stuff). The second problem that I had was where I put the transmitter - it was right over a part of my abs that move a lot (especially while dancing). I think that might have been part of the first problem - the location was just too terrible. Next time I'll have to be more careful with where I put the transmitter so it will be more comfortable.