{"id":2154,"date":"2006-04-20T18:41:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/to-dexcom-or-no\/"},"modified":"2006-04-20T18:41:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T18:41:06","slug":"to-dexcom-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/to-dexcom-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"To Dexcom or not to Dexcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got an email from a Dexcom employee today, my doctor has trained so they just need a letter of medical necessity.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously it isn&#8217;t covered by insurance yet.  I don&#8217;t suffer from a lot of hypos, BUT my performance at work is affected by blood sugar.  Example, I was feeling tired, cranky and out of sorts this afternoon.  Tested and was at 252 (but only tested because it was &#8220;time&#8221;).  Cause:  my infusion set was bloody, so I assume that was the reason.  Don&#8217;t know why, blood sugar was fine before lunch, didn&#8217;t do anything different.  Weird.<\/p>\n<p>I have unexplained highs and lows like any diabetic, just not as high and low as a Type 1.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got an email out to my doctor.  <\/p>\n<p>So do I hold out for the Navigator, which will probably work with the Cozmo &#8212; and I wouldn&#8217;t mind going with a Cozmo pump, next pump.<\/p>\n<p>Or do I go with the Dexcom which already has a deal with J&#038;J (the meter it pairs with is a Lifescan)?<\/p>\n<p>Or do I wait for insurance.<\/p>\n<p>FYI:  I&#8217;m predicting a price war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got an email from a Dexcom employee today, my doctor has trained so they just need a letter of medical necessity. Obviously it isn&#8217;t covered by insurance yet. I don&#8217;t suffer from a lot of hypos, BUT my performance at work is affected by blood sugar. Example, I was feeling tired, cranky and out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}