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Working closely with your healthcare professional (HCP), develop a personalized treatment
plan. This section is designed to help you talk with your HCP, followed by what you need to
have on your Dexcom G5 before making a treatment decision.
Creating Personal Guidelines
Working with your HCP, find your target glucose range, plus your appropriate Alert settings.
Along with helping you figure out your target glucose range, your HCP can show you how
to stay within your target range using the Dexcom G5. Let your HCP guide you through the
system's features: adjusting your Alert settings accordingly, working with sensor readings
and trend errors for treatment decisions, along with managing your diabetes with the system.
Learn from your HCP how changes:
• To an insulin regimen should be made cautiously and only under medical supervision
• In insulin strength, manufacture, type, or method of administration may result in a
need for a change in insulin dose
Your HCP is your partner in personalizing your diabetes management plan and treatment
decisions.
Make a List
Before meeting with your HCP, make a list of questions you have about treatment decisions
in general and how to specifically include your Dexcom G5 in your decision-making process.
Think of the following as talking points or your "What to Dos" when making treatment
decisions. Below are some topics you may want to include:
• What is your plan if your blood glucose is falling or rising rapidly?
• Discuss different scenarios. When to:
– Take more insulin
– Eat fast-acting carbohydrates
• When to watch and wait so you don't stack insulin
• How to use your Dexcom G5 to make better meal-dosing decisions
– Using the Dexcom G5 in treatment decisions
– Setting your Alerts
– What to do when you get an Alarm or Alert
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