I just tried the CGM by Animas and didn't feel like it was that beneficial to tighter glucose management. From my experience, I found that the blood sugar (bs) reading on the receiver that you wear on your belt was off by 30-50 mg/dL (above or below) a finger prick about 80-90% of the time I wore the device. In addition, I felt like the whole system was "behind" the finger pricks I was taking throughout the trial. This being that the CGM readings seemed roughly an hour behind my finger pricks. (I found that my finger pricks were a better picture of what my bs was at all times.) I'm not bashing Animas or CGM wearers, maybe I just had a bad trial, but all in all, to me it seemed like the CGM was more of a nuisance than a helpful tool. I am new at this blogging, but can anyone share any helpful tips/ stories on this subject? Thanks!!!

I have a CGM that is apart of my pump. Now with the CGM it's purpose is not to give you your bg at that moment as it has a lag time of 5 mins but instead it is good to alert you of a trending low or trending high so you can catch it ahead of time. I never treat a low or high based off of a CGM reading but I get a fingerstick to confirm a low or high cgm reading. I can say that with my cgm I have a lot less lows in fact I had hypo unawareness for yrs before my CGM but no because I catch the lows by watching the trends on my cgm I am getting my awareness back. A cgm is never your first line BG check you will always need to confirm a reading from it but when it says I am heading to a low or up to a high it is usually right.