Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) - pros and cons.

I have to say I will struggle with cons, but there are some. So, being on continuous, being on CGM, being able to measure your blood sugar all the time, is to me probably the most important thing after being on a pump, because it gives me feedback. I can always look at the reading, I can always look at the graph, and from that I will know where I am, what's going on. And it's, for me personally, obviously, when I eat something, I can see how it's reacting to the food that I've eaten. But that is not the most important thing. The thing that I find really useful with CGM is it's almost giving me a heads up if, for example, I'm going to get unwell. Because I get blood sugar rises 12 hours, sometimes a day before I get a cold. And that's really useful because I know something is going on. I may not understand what it is, but I'm almost prepared for it. It's amazing. For me, that is super, super useful but obviously that's on top of being able to do a day-to-day management that that is for me a given thing knowing where your blood sugar is at all time is great being able to being having to just do a number of finger pricks during the day i used to do five is even five is not enough because there are so much variability between the times where you do fingerprint tests that again CGM to me is brilliant but having this ability to see that something is going on with my body is really useful because this then goes into when you're unwell your blood sugar control changes. So when I remember a few years back I had proper flu, I don't mean a cold I mean a flu and my blood sugar really just skyrocketed up stayed up there and because I had CGM I could adjust the doses, I could adjust my my basal and boluses to control that better so I was able to control it. Again I don't know how I would have been able to do that while having a proper flu. I mean when you have proper flu you can't even think let alone do anything more complicated but being able to just look at a graph and see okay I need to do something adjusted a little, increase increase the basal it's just it's brilliant I I hope that there will be a time where everyone who wants to be on cgm will be able to be on cgm but every pro comes with the cons the cons is that you have another device attached to you and unlike unlike a cannula which you should which you replace every couple of days the cgm stays on for longer the one that I use I think is six days now some of them stay for longer than six days and and I do occasionally get itchiness around it and it can feel a bit uncomfortable and if you bump into it it can be painful but to be honest for me pros outweigh cons by a huge factor.