What's the latest in people's lives?

[IanKennedy]

Well this recent misadventure might have been a sensor error: it was a recently replaced sensor (though it tracked well before bed) and after I reactivated the sensor the meter reported calibration error and a "change sensor" warning.

Nevertheless, there have been other conspicuous divergent readings, and especially in the night/early morning with sensors that mostly worked.

I'm not too familiar with these meters but could it be that you are somehow disrupting the sensor while asleep (by rolling over or some such).

[Angharrad]

Thanks for all the well wishes. They are much appreciated.

[Nutso]

Sorry for your loss, Angharrad. I wish your family and friends the best.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Thanks for all the well wishes. They are much appreciated.

*Hugs again*

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

JHust got back from Age of Ultron. holy shit that was good.

[Graham Kennedy]

JHust got back from Age of Ultron. holy shit that was good.

It really was.

Best line in the film, from Hawkeye :

"We're on a floating city! Fighting an army of robots! And I have a bow and arrow! NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE!!!!"

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

JHust got back from Age of Ultron. holy shit that was good.

It really was.

Best line in the film, from Hawkeye :

"We're on a floating city! Fighting an army of robots! And I have a bow and arrow! NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE!!!!"

Hawkeye might've actually been my favorite character in the film for that line alone!

Then again there's also Cap's line...

"I miss the days when the weirdest thing to come out of a lab was me."

[Lt. Staplic]

Language!

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Language!

He never lived that down.

[Graham Kennedy]

Actually I was kinda surprised at how they treated Hawkeye here. He was kinda looked down on by people in the last movie as the guy who doesn't bring a whole lot to the Avengers table - no powers, a bit dull characterwise, etc. Ultron really puts the focus on him much more than before... we learn a lot more about him, get much more of a sense of the kind of guy he is. We even get a scene that head on confronts the fact that he's trying to be part of a team with people who are almost uniformly vastly stronger and tougher than he is, and has him (and others) wonder if he's up to it.

That kind of thing is typically Joss... take a step back and look at what you're doing from an objective viewpoint, kind of acknowledge the craziness of it.

[Griffin]

Language!

I was kind of annoyed Cap seemed to get more stick for that than

Tony did for building Ultron

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Actually I was kinda surprised at how they treated Hawkeye here. He was kinda looked down on by people in the last movie as the guy who doesn't bring a whole lot to the Avengers table - no powers, a bit dull characterwise, etc. Ultron really puts the focus on him much more than before... we learn a lot more about him, get much more of a sense of the kind of guy he is. We even get a scene that head on confronts the fact that he's trying to be part of a team with people who are almost uniformly vastly stronger and tougher than he is, and has him (and others) wonder if he's up to it.

That kind of thing is typically Joss... take a step back and look at what you're doing from an objective viewpoint, kind of acknowledge the craziness of it.

He was the viewpoint character, at least he seemed to be to me. Compared to everyone else he kinda has a vibe of 'upgraded SHIELD agent', for lack of a better term.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Well this recent misadventure might have been a sensor error: it was a recently replaced sensor (though it tracked well before bed) and after I reactivated the sensor the meter reported calibration error and a "change sensor" warning.

Nevertheless, there have been other conspicuous divergent readings, and especially in the night/early morning with sensors that mostly worked.

I'm not too familiar with these meters but could it be that you are somehow disrupting the sensor while asleep (by rolling over or some such).

I suppose that's a consideration. Given though that the thing is meant to be attached continuously for days at a time it seems the designers took that sort of thing into account. One is warned not to press to hard during the initial insertion when attaching a new sensor and not to place it too close to a part of the body that is subject to flexing (e.g., the waistline). I have followed both guidelines though, having placed the sensor in a fairly static location. When I move during the night it's over my back rather than across the belly. Well I'll give the next one a try today and continue monitoring the situation.

[Mikey]

I doubt that sleeping on it or rolling has much of a deleterious effect. I rented myself as a guinea pig for a CGM study, and the manufacturers had no qualms about attaching them on the buttocks, abdomen, thighs, etc. There is the odd bad sensor every once in a while, or a bad insertion which doesn't always show up immediately; but the main cause of divergent readings is divergent methodologies. Remember: your blood glucose monitor measures your blood glucose level, generally in mg/dL, which is really the most accurate way we have to pinpoint how you happen to be metabolizing sugar. The CGM measures the glucose level in the interstitial fluid in adipose tissue, which is naturally not exactly in line with blood glucose and which trends anywhere from 10 minutes to the best part of an hour behind changes in blood glucose. Given enough time, I suppose even large divergences between the CGM and blood glucose meter readings will eventually converge; however, we tend to continue living our lives while that's supposed to happen, so things will get artificially affected before that convergence can occur.

*EDIT* That difference in methods is why you have, no doubt, been instructed to base your boluses based on a meter reading rather than on the CGM reading.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

I doubt that sleeping on it or rolling has much of a deleterious effect. I rented myself as a guinea pig for a CGM study, and the manufacturers had no qualms about attaching them on the buttocks, abdomen, thighs, etc. There is the odd bad sensor every once in a while, or a bad insertion which doesn't always show up immediately; but the main cause of divergent readings is divergent methodologies. Remember: your blood glucose monitor measures your blood glucose level, generally in mg/dL, which is really the most accurate way we have to pinpoint how you happen to be metabolizing sugar. The CGM measures the glucose level in the interstitial fluid in adipose tissue, which is naturally not exactly in line with blood glucose and which trends anywhere from 10 minutes to the best part of an hour behind changes in blood glucose. Given enough time, I suppose even large divergences between the CGM and blood glucose meter readings will eventually converge; however, we tend to continue living our lives while that's supposed to happen, so things will get artificially affected before that convergence can occur.

*EDIT* That difference in methods is why you have, no doubt, been instructed to base your boluses based on a meter reading rather than on the CGM reading.

I was certainly aware of the difference in detection methods (and I have used the meter always to base a bolus) and told that at times there will be a larger difference, e.g. after a meal. Maybe it's a random thing in a small sample but it just seemed odd to have readings so wildly divergent which tend to happen at a similar time of day.