Comments on Death of a Pancreas: The trouble with 20%

Yes yes yes yes yes. 20% is huge and it's not...

2011-12-19T13:56:07.202-08:00

Yes yes yes yes yes. 20% is huge and it's not okay when we are dealing with our lives!!!!

20 percent deviation is unacceptable, but it's...

2011-12-16T12:24:43.995-08:00

20 percent deviation is unacceptable, but it's all we've got to work with. If trending low, I do three-quarter corrections; sometimes half corrections overnight. If trending high, I give 20 percent more correction but only if I'm sure I can stay up. I would err on the side of caution like you have done. Glad it worked out. Unfortunately, we do have to factor in the exhaustion factor before deciding how much correction we are going to give.

Amen. All A1Cs should come with a 20% caveat!

2011-12-15T22:07:27.993-08:00

Amen. All A1Cs should come with a 20% caveat!

UGH is right. it's so freaking ridic. glad thi...

2011-12-15T18:46:05.061-08:00

UGH is right. it's so freaking ridic. glad things worked out this time, but yeah: UNSAT.

This pisses me off so much. As you said when it co...

2011-12-15T09:43:24.686-08:00

This pisses me off so much. As you said when it comes to kids with larger ISFs this can mean serious consequences. FDA needs to fix this asap!

I so wish we could trust our technology! That numb...

2011-12-14T19:46:11.210-08:00

I so wish we could trust our technology! That number that pops up is just a moment in time but oh so important.

Blerg. No fun :( I hate that 20% deviation allowa...

2011-12-14T19:07:44.602-08:00

Blerg. No fun :(

I hate that 20% deviation allowance. HATE IT!

I have heard this before about the Omnipod's PDM. I've seen several blog posts where people retest with a different meter before correcting.

I thought I was alone for years with this 20% accu...

2011-12-14T17:53:23.629-08:00

I thought I was alone for years with this 20% accuracy rate. Just think what that means if you get a reading of 50? I am glad you bright this up. Just don't look at the temperature guidelines on your meter. I think that is scarying me more and more in the winter.

I find this to be infuriating, too...we are lucky ...

2011-12-14T14:58:15.813-08:00

I find this to be infuriating, too...we are lucky that our insurance covers enough test strips so that when we get wonky numbers we can double check, but I had to fight for those test strips and utilized the fact that the accuracy isn't 100% so for a small child I needed to be able to double check numbers that were extremely high (or low). Pisses me off that I have to further go into the cost of a trip to the ER-vs-a few extra test strips to get coverage so that I can safely dose the little dude. This is one area that I wish were getting a bit more attention, because truly if we're using finger pokes to calibrate the CGM and the finger pokes are off than how accurate will the CGM be? Sorry...I could go on and on.
I am glad you found a way to keep her from going too low that time, hopefully tonight no 300's will pop up and no correction will linger later effecting early AM BG #'s. We've found for Isaac that a half correction at night with an increased basal for 2hrs works better in combating highs and not having later lows. But again YDMV :)