Comments on: NEWS FLASH: Medtronic Announces CGMS iPro™ Recorder

By: mark

mark — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:35:20 +0000

Christine,
You do 4 checks a day for the 3 days to calibrate the cgms with your meter readings,you also keep a food diary and an insulin diary as well. that info is combined with the readings from the cgms. It would seen there is a tendancy to confuse the real time cgms with this new cgms recorder.
Mark

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:43:31 +0000

I’ve used the CGMS Gold from Medtronic, and it really helped me fine-tune my basal rates, and insulin/carb ratios.
I am excited there is now something we can use that is so small, and not as big and bulky!

The thing I like most about my real-time sensor is that it alerts me that I am going low before I go too low. I have less hypoglycemic unawareness than I used to.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:16:54 +0000

The problem is that without anyway to compare to your fingerstick readings, you have no way to know how accurate it is, thus eliminating any worthwhileness.

My sensor has been off by a ton before. In just the past 24 hours a 44 on the sensor was an 88 and a 142 on the sensor was a 99.

By: CALpumper

CALpumper — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:26:10 +0000

Exactly what I was thinking Lauren!!

“However, it’s very unfortunate that doctors often can’t spend the time discussing the trends technology reveals, and concerns that are raised, with their patients. “Hypoglycemia unawareness” is one topic that I believe is neglected. Doctors have to take on such staggering patient loads that they barely spend 10 minutes with patients, especially those they see regularly. If devices like this don’t provoke more dialogue between patients and physicians, the true utility of the technology won’t be realized.”

How can we use any data if we are forced to sit with our Endo for 10 minutes or less? After 23 years they all do the Same thing for a regular “update” appt, review the A1c #, download data for only one month from your glucose meter, ask if you have made changes to the formula prescribed last time (basal and bolus rates/times for pump) and check vitals….

Again, How does this help me with my Everyday struggles???????

By: sara

sara — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:33:07 +0000

Sounds interesting, definitely less intrusive than the old “Gold” model…
I currently use the MiniLink transmitter and find it usually works great, but the data’s only as good as the calibration… Do they just do an initial calibration for this system and hope it sticks?!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:11:50 +0000

Good to see continued development on their CGM devices but what I would really be impressed with is a price drop on their glucose sensors. $35/sensor is ridiculous!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:48:32 +0000

Thanks for the update … interesting to see how diabetes technology is being used on the healthcare provider’s end. I’ve known plenty of doctors who happily shell out for better, less invasive equipment their patients can use. However, it’s very unfortunate that doctors often can’t spend the time discussing the trends technology reveals, and concerns that are raised, with their patients. “Hypoglycemia unawareness” is one topic that I believe is neglected. Doctors have to take on such staggering patient loads that they barely spend 10 minutes with patients, especially those they see regularly. If devices like this don’t provoke more dialogue between patients and physicians, the true utility of the technology won’t be realized.

By: JasonJayhawk

JasonJayhawk — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:44:35 +0000

Argh, John…this isn’t for patients. If you want something you can review on your own (and for less money), try one of the CGMS systems already on the market from DexCom or Medtronic.

By: john

john — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:05:59 +0000

At a more reasonable price, I would buy this product in an instant, just to get access to a continuous stream of glucose monitoring data (I don’t use a pump). I don’t need a physician to review it — I can do that myself! I can’t believe mini-med is not marketing this as a consumer device. It seems like a no-brainer.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:57:13 +0000

You know Amy,

You’re right, for some reason I thought it worked in conjunction with the CGMS unit that’s available to us.

Totally missed the boat on that one. Sorry about that.