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Knowing Your Trends
The G6 sends you a reading every 5 minutes. It also provides reports and views of
your information so you can detect and reflect on trends, patterns, and how your body
responds to different things, like exercise or pizza. This provides you with a more
complete picture of your glucose and lets you see how your daily habits impact your
glucose trends.
Making Treatment Decisions Using G6
You can use your G6 reading and trend arrow to make treatment decisions – like
treating for a low or dosing for a high. See Chapter 11 for more information on
treatment decisions. With G6, there's no need to take fingersticks to calibrate the
system or for treatment decisions (as long as your symptoms match your G6 readings).
This can reduce the pain and burden of excessive fingersticks (Aleppo 2017) and
reduce potential errors due to inaccurate calibration.
Helping Your Diabetes Management
The alarm/alerts features (Chapter 10) keep you aware of your glucose levels. Alarm/
alerts notify you when your glucose goes outside your target range, goes too low, or
too high, or is rapidly falling or rising. This lets you take action to prevent glucose from
going too low or high (Pettus 2015).
Some people perceive an increase in their quality of life and peace of mind when using
real-time CGM (Polonsky 2017). Share may improve the quality of life and peace of
mind for patients, their caregivers, and their support team because it sends Followers
G6 readings and alarm/alerts remotely. Followers can then reach out when G6 readings
go too low or high.
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