more you check readings from the System with a blood glucose meter, the better
you will understand how the System works for you.
Work with your health care professional to put together a plan for managing your
diabetes that includes when to use the System information for making treatment
decisions.
Helpful Tips
Confirm your Sensor glucose readings with a blood glucose meter until you
understand:
Sensor accuracy may vary between Sensors.
Sensor accuracy may vary during a Sensor wear session.
Sensor accuracy may vary in different situations (meals, exercise, first day of
use, etc.).
Check your glucose often to see how carbs, medication, exercise, illness, or
stress levels impact your Sensor glucose readings. The information you get can
help you figure out why your glucose sometimes goes too high or too low, and
how to prevent it from doing so in the future.
Talk to your health care professional about how your insulin works. The more
you understand about your insulin, including how long it takes to start working
and how long it lasts in your body, the more likely you will be to make better
treatment decisions.
Making a treatment decision doesn’t just mean taking insulin. Treatment
decisions can also include things like taking fast-acting carbs, eating, or even
doing nothing and checking again later.
Your health care professional can also help you to understand when doing
nothing and checking again later is the right treatment decision. For example, if
your glucose is high and going up, your first instinct may be to take more insulin
to lower your glucose, however depending on when you last took insulin or your
recent activity, the right treatment decision may be to do nothing and check
again later. Avoid “insulin stacking”.
Sensor glucose values, which are based on interstitial fluid glucose levels, can be
different from blood glucose levels (fingersticks), particularly during times when
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