Personal experiences

Personal experiences with continuous glucose monitoring devices

Blogs
A number of people have written weblogs about their experiences with CGMS. In most cases, the links below are to individual posts on each blog. You can find more information by searching each blog; feel free to link relevant individual posts below. (Remember, you can edit this [and any other] page!)

Dexcom

  Matt Vogel at Insulin Factor was one of the first to write about his experiences using the Dexcom STS.  Amy Tenderich at Diabetes Mine wears a Dexcom STS and writes about her experiences. 

Minimed 522/722 with CGMS



 Tiffany at Candid Diabetes has a Minimed 522 with CGMS and has written about her experiences.



Other devices

  Wil wrote an extensive blog about his early experiences with the Minimed Guardian RT.



Mailing lists
There has been a fair amount of discussion of CGMS on the insulin pump users mailing list, with archives at http://www.insulin-pumpers.org/. You have to be a member of the mailing list to search the archives, though it's possible to sign up for web-only access if you don't want to receive the e-mails.