At Home With Dad

So I am half way through my seven day trial with my Seven Plus and things are going very well.

During the Minimed trial, I was ready to throw the thing in the pool after the first couple of days of alarms and errors. In contrast, the Dexcom Seven Plus is proving to be very accurate – often within 7-10 points of a finger stick reading – and without all the crazy errors of the Minimed Paradigm. The Minimed would beep and shake with an erroneous error far too often my enjoyment.

The Seven Plus is bringing to light both highs and lows that I was unaware of over the past four days of use. In short, I love it! The sensor is thin enough that I don’t notice it on my body at all. I think I’ve bumped into once and thought, “oh yeah, that thing is still with me.”

If I had one issue with the Seven Plus it is the receiver. It is just too big. As a man, I just don’t like carrying it on my belt like my pump. With both of them on there, it is just too much junk hanging off me. Instead I’ve been carrying the receiver in my pocket or coat over the past few days. A couple of times, I’ve left the receiver in a coat pocket and lost reception. For a woman, I think keeping the receiver in a purse would work well, but I’m not ready for the man’s bag just yet. Give me a few more years of frustration and I might be ready, who knows?

At night, the receiver is doing great just resting on my night stand, which is much better than being clipped to me. The alarm awoke me several times without any troubles. One night I wish that it would just understand that I ate too much Mexican food that night and would rather sleep than try to fix the high levels all night, but, again, it is just doing it’s job.

And a fine job it is doing. I return my new friend in a couple of days and I’m really ready to make the purchase and start wearing this thing full time. With the MiniMed Paradigm, I left the trial thinking maybe I didn’t need it, but I’m really enjoying the accuracy and simplicity of wearing the Dexcom Seven Plus.

Other blog posts on my seven day trial: Part One and Part Three.