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Diabetes Management System User Guide | Chapter 6
Helpful Tips
Confirm your Sensor glucose readings with your 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.).
• Scan your Sensor 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 provider 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 waiting and scanning again later.
• Your health care provider can also help you to understand when
waiting and scanning 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 wait for your recent dose of
rapid-acting insulin to bring down your glucose level. 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 your blood glucose is changing
quickly. If your glucose readings and alerts from Bigfoot Unity
do not match your symptoms or expectations, use a fingerstick
blood glucose value from a blood glucose meter to make diabetes
treatment decisions. Images below show how Sensor values may
be different from blood glucose values.
