630G Sensor Trial Part 2

Alright, so I've had a successful six day sensor run on the 630G.  I was thinking that the sensor experience may totally make or break this pump.  Either it was going to be absolutely fantastic (and I would have to seriously reconsider whether my original misgivings/complaints were things I could live with), or I was going to continue to be disappointed with the whole 630G experience...

I know that I am a bit biased because the first sensor didn't work properly (which may have been why the 630G insisted on that calibration exactly 6 hours later the first time - I don't know for sure if it needed a calibration exactly 6 hours later the second time, but I also was super careful to do a calibration as close to 6 hours later as possible to avoid having to do extra blood tests).

Here's a fun (read: annoying) fact: when you are calibrating a sensor, it says "Calibrating" across the sensor graph on the main screen...and also the other sensor graphs unless you actually start looking over them. 

Here's the main 630G pump screen.

And here's when I specifically selected the sensor graph.

I know that it goes away on the sensor graph if you select right or left in an attempt to read the sensor graph.  I also know that the whole "calibrating" thing goes away once it's done calibrating in about fifteen minutes.  But I honestly don't understand why it's there at all (I know it's calibrating - I TOLD THE PUMP TO CALIBRATE!!!) and ESPECIALLY why it has to take up room on the sensor graphs off the main screen (I ALREADY SAW YOU WERE CALIBRATING ON THE MAIN SCREEN, PUMP!!!) Again, I realize it goes away after about fifteen minutes, but this was such a weird and annoying addition.

Through the entire life of the sensor, I found that my sensor glucose was consistently about 0.5-1.5 mmol/L off all of my blood sugar readings.  This has never been the case with the VEO, especially after the first day or two of running a sensor (it always gets super accurate from about that point for me).  So this was pretty disappointing because I had heard that this transmitter was supposed to be more accurate.  And I actually found myself not caring what the sensor was telling me because it wasn't overly accurate anyway - it was at the point that I was counting down the days to it being over because I hated dealing with.

Oh, and when I finally got to pull the sensor out, it looked perfectly fine.  So I don't know what it's problem was for the entire six days.

As you may have guessed, I ended up turning pretty much all of the fancy alerts off.  I had already turned the low suspend off thanks to the failed sensor.  But it was also annoying on the other end, being told I was going high/was high when I knew I wasn't (and confirmed it with a blood test). 

Needless to say, I would not be trusting these sensors/this transmitter with a closed loop system.  I don't trust my VEO with it, but it's a heck of a lot more accurate than the 630G was for me.