Dexcom G7

I want to talk to something right now.

There's a video or a series of videos going around and a lot of content creators and people with diabetes are talking about a change in the terms and conditions in the Dexcom G7 app that I believe rolled out in the past couple of days.

I'd love to just ask you your thoughts and if you had a chance to address like what this means for patients and where it's coming from, address the community and talk about that.

Yeah, absolutely.

This is the CONNECT study.

It found that people with type 2 who don't use insulin saw significant improvements in blood sugar management when using a CGM.

After 26 weeks, people using Dexcom's G7 lowered their average A1c from 8.8 to 7.2 compared to a drop from 8.7 to 8 for those receiving routine care.

The findings come as Medicare considers expanding CGM coverage to people with diabetes who don't use insulin.

This mother sucker was 100 points off.

I don't know about everybody else that's listening to this, but for some reason, over the past year, I would say, the G7 has given me so much issues throughout the 10 days, not just the first 24, 48 hours, the whole entire 10 days.

Just off and on.

And it's not every single CGM and it's not every single CGM for the whole entire time.

But at some point within that 10 days, I'm having at least one incident of one day being like really off like that or multiple.

And I'm just curious if everyone else has been having the same issue with Dexcom G7.

This is the 10 day, not the 15.

It's so crazy to me that it could be so accurate.

But that is typically what I am seeing.

So for ex- w- when we started, we were on the Dexcom G6, but then because we were privately paying for it because of everything happening with the hospital a- and the team, we actually, my daughter was one of the first people in the UK to be transferred, if not the first person in the UK, to be transferred to the G7.

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Really?

It, it's working brilliantly for us.

But, um, I think at the time, what happened was, there was some, I don't know, was, was the, were there some issues with the FDI, FDA that there were the...

It, I think it was something to do with the mute settings that, you know, the G7-

Hmm

And then, but then I was like, all right, cat's out of the bag.

And I thought, "Well, maybe she'll realize what's going on and then see how the other thing should..." Like, you know, 'cause w- the G7, after it deploys, like, you can flip it over and you can see, you know?

Right, right.

Like, a, a, a needle comes, like, bazoom.

The way people do things is different.

Don't, uh, th- this running around telling everybody, "Well, it should be like this, it should be like that," everyone says the opposite of whatever they see.

I saw a woman the other day say, um, "I'm so excited my..." You know, uh, it was a post about Dexcom G7.

I got a bunch of people together talking about Dexcom G7 and G8 coming out.

This was a study that was presented at the American Diabetes Association scientific sessions in June, and it was a randomized control trial.

And why that's important is that what that means is that half of the people in the study were given CGM, so Dexcom G7, and half of the people had routine care, which means that they were able to do finger sticks.

And these are all adults with type 2 diabetes, not on insulin.

And it included 283 adults living with type 2 diabetes.

this one in a while.

Kate wanted to know, and I will just read this.

She says the adhesive on my daughter's newer G710 day has been tearing her arms up.

Every sensor leaves skin that has a bad reaction to it.

The latest lawsuits involve kids who were both hospitalized.

Their legal teams say the Dexcom G7 device failed to accurately report blood glucose levels.

The legal firm behind 11 of these suits say they involve G7 and G6 CGMs with plaintiffs in six states.

The FDA has cleared a new app that uses CGM and insulin data to recommend insulin dose adjustments directly to adults with Type 2.

The app is called MODI, M-O-D-I, and developed by DreamMed Diabetes.

So you can see how things like training or walking or eating high carb food or high carb meal, low carb meals, et cetera, affects your glucose.

I've used the Dexcom, D-E-X-C-O-M, G7 continuous blood glucose monitor.

I think for the Dexcom, you have to have a prescription.

Most doctors would be happy to give you a prescription for that.

And Dexcom also has one called the Stelo, S-T-E-L-O.

It's $99 for 30 days.

I think maybe it doesn't do quite everything that the G7 does, the prescription version.

But they're pretty easy.