Dexcom G5 - Creating Personal Guidelines; Make a List

Dexcom G5 Mobile System User Guide
255Using the Dexcom G5 Mobile System for Treatment Decisions
about how you should be using the Dexcom G5 Mobile to help manage your diabetes. Your
HCP can help you decide how you should best use this device.
Working closely with your HCP, develop a personalized treatment plan. This section is
designed to help you talk with your HCP, followed by what you need to have on your Dexcom
G5 Mobile before making a treatment decision.
Creating Personal Guidelines
Working with your HCP, find your target glucose range, plus your appropriate Alert settings.
Along with helping you figure out your target glucose range, your HCP can show you how to
stay within your target range using the Dexcom G5 Mobile. Let your HCP guide you through
the system’s features: adjusting your Alert settings accordingly, working with sensor readings
and trend errors for treatment decisions, along with managing your diabetes with the system.
Learn from your HCP how changes :
• To an insulin regimen should be made cautiously and only under medical supervision
• In insulin strength, manufacture, type, or method of administration may result in a need
for a change in insulin dose.
Your HCP is your partner in personalizing your diabetes management plan and treatment
decisions.
Make a List
Before meeting with your HCP, make a list of questions you have about treatment decisions
in general and how to specifically include your Dexcom G5 Mobile in your decision-making
process. Think of the following as talking points or your “What to Dos” when making
treatment decisions. Below are some topics you may want to include:
• What is your plan if your blood glucose is falling or rising rapidly?
• Discuss different scenarios. Find out when to:
– Take more insulin
– Eat fast-acting carbohydrates
• When to watch and wait so you don’t stack insulin
• How to use your Dexcom G5 Mobile to make better meal-dosing decisions
– Using the Dexcom G5 Mobile in treatment decisions
– Setting your Alerts
– What to do when you get an Alarm or Alert