Well, Max's CGM arrived yesterday, and after a super busy day of dog training, puppy play dates, a dog nearly constantly having accidents, customers coming to pick up their dog at the end of the day, and a school concert, we FINALLY got to put the CGM on Max! It was 9:00 at night by the time we finally got around to it, and the CGM arrived at 10 in the morning.
Inserting it was the easy part. Pairing the receiver with the CGM was a little bit more complicated, but not too bad. What bothered me was that it needed an additional two hours to "warm up" to Max's body and get some readings before it could give us a first reading. Which meant we were all in bed.
But when it finally gave us a reading, Max's blood sugar was high, so that meant that his first reading was an alarm. I didin't correct his blood sugar, since it was only 199. That is considered to be high-ish, but not too bad for before bed, since blood sugar tends to fall during the night anyway. Well, I guess it kept beeping at Max for a good part of the night, doing a good job of sending him warnings that his blood sugar was high, even though it was actually coming down. So I guess you could say the CGM was doing it's job--much to Max's annoyance.
I might adjust the alarms, haha.
Overall, we like the CGM. We've barely had enough time to really get used to it, but it was nice just glancing at the monitor, instead of doing the whole checking with the blood thing.
We have yet to get the app on my phone (not compatible) and there's other little glitches, but the bottom line is, we have the CGM and it's working well. Now to enjoy it.
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