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wahyu comments on Diabetes Blog Week 2013

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Scott Benner comments on What Diabetes Blog Week Means to Me

Scott Benner — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:18:49 +0000

Karen - I am sorry that you are getting any kind of criticism over DBlogWeek, it is such a wonderful addition to the community. I LOVE it and love you for making it happen every year.

You can count me as a huge supporter. I hope that you are well and having a better day!

Best,
Scott

Karen comments on What Diabetes Blog Week Means to Me

Karen — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:47:17 +0000

I'm so glad you didn't stop blogging. I'm so happy you found your "voice" and so excited for your successes. If Diabetes Blog Week played even a small part in getting you to hang in with blogging, I could not be more thrilled. Your post had me crying happy tears on a day when I've run into some blog week criticism that really hurt. So thank you for reminding me that even if not everyone enjoys DBlogWeek, many people really do and that makes it all worthwhile!

Katie comments on DexCom G4 Platinum: Second Look

Katie — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:49:15 +0000

Steve, I took your advice and ran with it... the first time I used the "Coach" tape, I got my sensor to last 13 days!! It may have even lasted longer but I got tired of wondering where I would be when it finally quit. Also, it doesn't irritate my skin the way all of the other brands did. I figured out why I hadn't tried it before, they don't sell Johnson & Johnson brand in the drugstores I was going to...
What I think is important for people to know, that are trying to decide whether to try the G4 or not, is this... 1. Yes, you do have to calibrate twice a day, 12 hours apart, but you don't have to wait the full 12 hours. I calibrate at 6am when I wake up and around 6pm when I eat dinner. But if you want to calibrate at 5pm, so be it, then it will want another one at 5am the following day... but you could wait till 6am if you needed to. Its not like it will stop working on you... I find the G4 is more accurate when you calibrate it before it tells you to. If you wait longer than 12 hours it seems to lose its accuracy a little bit. and...2. When I first read the brochure for the G4, it talked about having the comfort of knowing what direction your BG was heading with the magical little arrow. My first thought was, yeah right!! I think I even laughed a little. But after having the G4 for 5 1/2 months now, I understand how amazing an arrow can be. Think about it, you would have to finger stick every 5 minutes to have the amount of data that this tiny awesome thing is delivering to you all day and night. And just knowing that it will alert me whether I'm high or low, depending on my own version of high or low is SO reassuring. I don't ever have to wonder whats going to happen next. Mine is set at 70 and 250, when it hits 70, I have time to bring it up before it gets too low, and at 250 I have time to correct with insulin before it gets outrageously high.
Now, how do we get the insurance companys to cover it... I'd be happy with 50%...

Scott Benner comments on Mother's Day Giveaway

Scott Benner — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:52:49 +0000

Amy, My tracking info says that you've received the books... all good? Scott

Karen comments on Diabetes Blog Week 2013

Karen — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:36:43 +0000

I remember you from that very first year - I didn't have the Link Lists then and was trying to use some crazy feed thing to link posts and I had missed some of your blog feeds!! I'm so glad you are still blogging and still up for some DBlog Week craziness!! Thanks for the shout out!

brian leair comments on DexCom G4 Platinum: Second Look

brian leair — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:07:09 +0000

I've used the seven, the seven+ and now the G4.
I like:
- user interface of the smaller receiver (so many ways in which it's better than the previous models, but the biggest one to me is size and being able to tell what the heck the system is doing)

My notes:
- I wear the sensors on the sides of my body and wear the receiver in my pocket. If I place the receiver in the pocket on the same side I think it's too close and the receiver can't get a solid RF lock. Easy to solve though, I just keep the receiver in my other pocket
- Sensor lifetime seems about the same as the Seven+. I get about 1.5 to 2.5 weeks of use with the last day being moderately inaccurate compared to finger sticks
- "Drift" between finger stick values and the G4 seems a bit better to me. When I do a finger stick I always enter the value and it feels like the G4 retrains itself better.
- The sensor+transmitter pod is a bit taller. At first I was worried this would cause me grief, but luckily all is good. Near he end of one sensor run the extra height did result in my bumping the sensor off (but it was at the end of its life and stickiness)

Scott Benner comments on Tears of Insulin

Scott Benner — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:22:24 +0000

Scott, We spoke about the process in great length and then waled the production line. Most of what happens is not in plain view (Happens in tanks, tubes, pipes etc). At the end of the line, where the bottling happened, that's where I was when I felt this way.

best,

Scott E comments on Tears of Insulin

Scott E — Thu, 09 May 2013 23:13:50 +0000

Did you actually see the insulin being made or just being bottled? I can't imagine what the process of creating synthetic insulin is like -- is it mad scientists and test tubes or machines and conveyor belts? I have no clue. I do have a mental picture of how my old animal-sourced insulin was harvested, and the picture's not pretty (and probably not accurate, either).

This must be a real sight to see!

Mike H comments on Tears of Insulin

Mike H — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:45:13 +0000

Great post, Scott. I felt the same way, being inside the facilities and seeing all that up close and personal. When I first started working in downtown Indy, and found myself driving past the Lilly HQ every morning, it was a pretty remarkable feeling to be that close to the place where my insulin has come from and kept me alive for so many years. That feeling never went away. Was even more magnified being inside the actual manufacturing plants, though. And very informative! Thanks for sharing this recap and your thoughts on it with everyone.