I Tested a Continuous Glucose Monitor *So You Don’t Have To*
Levels Continuous Glucose Monitor👇🏻 (Affiliate Link)
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:35 What is a CGM?
1:30 Hot Bath
2:17 Walking
2:40 Stress
3:50 Bad Sleep
5:00 My Break-fast
6:39 Person 1
6:48 Person 2
7:16 Person 3
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A very good job, Autumn!
I wish i had your blood sugar levels ❤ type 1 diabetic here 🙂
The levels definitely can be affected by a lot of factors and it can be frustrating not understanding why things are out of wack when everything should be perfect food/carb intake wise.
I know, right? Sometimes I’m like “why did I climb by 100 more than yesterday, I literally ate the exact same meal” and knowing it could be stress, fever, my cycle or anything else gets frustrating. But it can be useful to let go and just adapt your insulin and figure, my body is complex and complicated and I’ll never fully understand it, but at least this tells me what it needs right now so I’m going to act accordingly 🙂
This is an interesting tool. Thank you Autumn for sharing your experience with it. I was looking forward to this video. 👍❤️🇨🇦
Great video. I must admit I dont exercise much but the glucose readings after walking have encouraged me…….thanks for sharing……also Sage is precious. Keep up the good work Mama.❤
Thanks so much 🥰
Walking does help a lot! 10 minutes after every meal makes a huge difference if you have diabetes, and I suspect it certainly won’t hurt if you don’t 🙂
Very interesting, thanks ❤
Thanks for tuning in!
🤔 I was pondering on the hot bath too. It’s crazy how something our brain signals as helpful (soothing bath) spikes blood sugar. Very interesting. Hormones are hard to understand. Really enjoyed the new test and trial results 🤓
True! Blood sugar spikes aren’t always bad – and hot baths and exercise are good examples of when it would be useful for the body. But constant blood sugar spikes from our food could lead to metabolic issues.
I have felt like I might pass out after hot baths many times. Interesting
The blood sugar spike from the bath was definitely interesting!
I’ve been hearing so much about these. You read my my and answered all my questions! Thanks for sharing. It goes to show how effective your meal plans are! 🥦🥑🥥🍗
Good video but you did not mention the cost?
It’s definitely not cheap (which is why I don’t recommend it for those first starting their journey and have changes to their diet and lifestyle they can make first). It’s $199 for a month of sensors and the app is $199 a year – although I believe the link in my description provides two months free from the app subscription.
I suspect the cost depends on where you live. Here in Europe it’s a bit over 50€ for a 2-week monitor, covered by insurance up to 26 times per year if you have diabetes, not covered at all if you don’t or beyond 26 monitors/year. I expect the cost to be much higher somewhere like in the US. Note that there are also different types of monitors, including some that have bluetooth so you don’t need to scan at all, and some who need to be scanned and keep a memory of your blood sugar for up to 8 hours (so if you forget to scan for more than 8 hours you’ll get a gap in your data). The cost will vary between those too.
Awesome baby!❤
Interesting info…
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Autumn thanks for this overview. Would be very curious to see how your blood sugar responds to the Guerrero/Mission/La Banderita zero carb tortillas? I’ve seen very different results among those who have tried them with CGMs.
Me too! and other foods tested as well, although I realize individual results may vary….
I have type 1 diabetes and depending on where you live, please make sure there are enough of those to go around! We really need one to know how much insulin to give ourselves, or if we need to take a sugar refeed, because pricking your finger regularly gets mentally draining when it’s every day, and you can miss some highs and lows that really affect your health. With more and more people without diabetes getting the continuous glucose monitors, there are shortages in some places. And while it might be cool for you to know if your blood sugar is at 80 or 98, it can be essential for me to know if it’s at 49 or 350. And finally, for people with closed-loop insulin pumps/an artificial pancreas, the monitor is what tells the pump how much insulin to provide so it’s not something they can do without!
If there are no shortages, go for it if you feel like it! I don’t want to gatekeep a tool that can be useful to you.
If there are shortages, consider getting a blood testing kit instead. It’s less crucial for you to have alarms on 24/7 and you could get good data points from regular finger pricks if what you’re looking for is an idea of how your body reacts over a week or two. While finger pricks are mentally draining in the long run, it should be fine doing them for a few weeks only. Best data points would be right before eating and then every 2 hours. Plus the kit is usually cheaper than a 2-week continuous monitor (I suspect it’s not reimbursed by insurance at all if you don’t have diabetes) and you can hand it over to someone else once you have the data you wanted and recup some of the money, so it’s a lower-cost option as well.
On to the commentary on the video itself: It’s always a bit weird to see someone say “my sugar raised so much!” and see it barely move compared to what I’m used to mine doing 😄Also interesting to see that the “upper limit” on your graph was at 110. Did you set it manually? The default usually is 180 as that’s where someone with diabetes wants to aim to stay 70% of the time (peaks higher than 180 are normal after meals or when sick).
Thanks for sharing your graph, it’s very nice to get a visual element and it can give people an idea of how it looks and if they might be interested in trying it out. It’s really nice that we’ve made such technological improvements and I can’t wait to see what research comes up with next 🙂
Husband has diabetes and Im trying to avoid it. Because I hate exercising. 😔 Thanks!
Interesting! I have someone in mind who could benefit from this.
Cost? Great video.
I love your videos! I want my husband to see this video. He’s a type 2 diabetic. Really think he could benefit from the information in this video.😊
I tried the Free
Style CHM, loved getting the data but some nights my levels would drop causing the alarm to go off….which would make sense if you are a diabetic. I am not a diabetic and just using it for the reasons you highlighted. So, does the Levels CGM has a night time mute option? Thanks!
Excellent video! Sage is adorable 😍
Your daughter is so cute 💕