You NEED a CGM! (Who needs a Continuous Glucose Monitor)
You NEED a CGM! (Who needs a Continuous Glucose Monitor)
A CGM (continuous glucose monitor) can quickly tell you which foods spike your glucose levels and which foods don’t. It’s worth down-grading your cable-package to get one!
—Conditions that benefit from a CGM—
Diabetes (all)
Prediabetes
Hypoglycemia
Metabolic Syndrome
Gestational Diabetes
Hypertension
High Triglycerides
Overweight/Obese/Severely Obese
PCOS
others
—What to say if your doctor refuses to order it for you—
“Doctor, I hear what you saying. Will you document in my Permanent Medical Record that I have risk factors for diabetes and heart disease and I am trying to improve my diet, and I think a CGM will help me do that. And, that you refused this request to help me improve my health. And, I’d like to get a copy of my record when you have finished this documentation. Thank you.”
This should work wonders…
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This is just another method to ensure patients will become completely shrouded, engulfed, and obsessed with minute details such as minute to minute feedback on their blood sugar levels. Why not just focus on eating healthy and staying active THE OVERALL PICTURE instead of staring at a graph all day showing you blood glucose levels. BIG PICTURE PEOPLE
❤we should be able to get them without a MD or doctor visit! ❤
Same with Ivermectin and other meds that have shown excellent results. ❤
Love how insurance companies reward healthy people but if your going down the wrong path they just charge you more and deny anything that can help you better understand your health and change bad habits. Then their little classes for discounts advise you to eat pure shite to lower your blood glucose lmao. What a grift
Big Pharma talking
I have been using the Lingo sensor that does not require a prescription and love it. I pay around $92.00 a month and find it worth the cost. 😊
I’m prediabetes, Dr told me insurance would cover the CGM I was Diabetic. I feel miserable every time I eat and get crashed and even feel sick sometimes.💔😢
Hi Doctor,
Very grateful for you for the time and the effort you are giving people for free. If my dexcom is usually inconsistent with the manual finger stick reading which is always lower than the dexcom which one I should follow more?
Thank you
The Doctor’s would loose so much patients..No one be going to Doctor’s to get a lipid test???Reap offs these Doctors??
Can this be covered by health insurance ?
Have you heard of Diabetic Amyotrophy?
they don’t work
If the insurance is paying you have requirements to be approved. Daily Insulin injections OR you had 2 hypoglycemic events in past 6 months.
Thank you thank you
The VA just changed their rules and I may be able to get one next week!
Hope jfk forces the industry to stop controlling us citizens???
This should be available to all that want it…???
Leila Villages
Hi
I am pre- diabetic and have NAFLD do you think I need one?
I am not over weight but I’m pre diabetes. I just found out that I am prediabetes and my Drs. Nurse said I don’t qualify to get cgm. My daughter fussed . I was just thinking I am going to be sticking myself a good bit so I can see what affects my blood sugar
My aunt died in a nursing home with her legs cut off.
I got one 2 months ago and it the best decision I’ve made
Doctor barry, I avoid sugar, ninety percent of the time. But on the occasion where I have a dessert, which contains considerable sugar, I’ll practically pass out pure exhaustion.Can’t hold my eyes open. What does this mean I am diabetic?Or pre diabetic?
CCM, total game changer.
Another painful thing when using a CGM – especially if you use the Stelo Biosensor – is you treat it a bit like putting a real Epi-Pen applicator into your skin. You apply the biosensor applicator, press it on to your skin, and then, it acts like an auto-injector–you will hear a pop – that is the stick thing going into the skin, and then you remove the applicator, and the sensor is stuck in place.
After pairing the sensor with my smartphone using Stelo warmup, I got my first mg/dl reading – 114. That is a bit high. But I know a little bit about diabetes and prediabetes numbers. A fasting glucose thing should be 70-100. Non-fasting glucose should not be more than 140 or so mg/dl or no lower than 70 mg/dl. Now I got this 114 because I am not fasting. I am going to eat some baked chicken and see if my glucose rises. Only a little bit because it is chicken and it is keto-friendly. Not loaded with carbs. It might spike to 120 mg/dl and then go down.
I am sadly a prediabetic. I was 5.8 in my glucohemoglobin, and then, sadly, a 5.9. Once I get up to 6.5 or more – I AM DEAD! CONDEMNED TO BEING SENTENCED TO HAVING TYPE 2 DIABETES! And that is what I do not want! That is why I used a CGM like Stelo, Dr. ;( 🙁 🙁
Because it’s money they’d loose out!
I used a GCM for one day. It drove me crazy. Simply not for me. Been on carnivore now for one month. Blood glucose reduced significantly.
I just got one last week from my dietitian, I knew my numbers were high, but wow. I have ADHD and it’s so helpful in that area, one less thing to worry about and one less thing to do…
This WILL Definitely help you to LOWER your A1C.
Isnt T2 caused by fat cells being full of fat? Insulin resistance?
It demonstrated to me that sweet fruits, mango, pineapple, grapes, prunes, spiked my sugar to 190+. Stress? I was driving early morning on a snowy New Hampshire highway to go skiing, wiper broke and my sugar skyrocketed.
I’m a small town general surgeon and insulin resistance survivor. I have expanded my practice to include metabolic life coaching for those who are interested. A cgm is mandatory imo and one of my requirements along with fasting insulin and the other metabolic health measurements. It continues to amaze me the pushback my patients have received from their pcp and/or their insurance company about cgm indications. Or even more laughable the idea that it’s “taking away valuable resources from actual diabetics “ 🙄
They now have out without a script an Stello cgm!!
172 Wilton Camp
Your videos are always SO good. ❤ I am turning 39 in a few days. I recently read Good Energy by Dr. Casey Means and Fast Like a Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz, and because I’m struggling undiagnosed with many of the indicators of increasing insulin resistance and inflammation, even with what I consider a relatively healthy diet and lifestyle, I am getting a CGM to uncover what the heck may be happening with my blood. I’m changing a lot of things, and this is one part of the whole discovery and recovery process. Thank you!!! ❤
I would like to try an OTC CGM. I’m prediabetic. My recent bloodwork said my A1c is 6.0 and my Fasting Insulin increased from 3.8 to 4.6. My concern about using a CGM is that I’m very active guy. I’m worried that a CGM would become lose or become attached from my arm. Can I left weights while wearing a CGM? I work for FedEx and I’m always lifting heavy packages and constantly moving. Would a CGM survive my daily routine/activities?
My functional medicine dr 👨⚕️ said I may have to get one of these . At my last visit last Thursday. Here in Canada you can buy it OTC but from the pharmacy section $120.00 . Like Shoppers Drug Mart.
Thanks Dr. Ken. From personal experience, using a CGM changed my life. You can see how stress, certain foods, the order you eat foods & exercise affects glucose, spikes and A1C. I changed my diet and habits then saw immediate results. Best thing I ever did & I feel much better.
I had a dexcon G7 for 60 days. It was changing my life, then united healthcare denied any further refills. Scumbags
What should your CGM fasting number be?
Im type 2 diabetic my HA1c is 11.9 even with insulin my blood sugar levels wont go under 200, ive done strict carnivore diet for a year now..
I agree. BUT who is going to pay for it? I can’t afford it and Medicare and supplemental have many restrictions/conditions before they will pay. Doctor’s and Health care people don’t seem to understand how it is in the real world. If I was indigent, they’d be paid for.
Kunde Crest
I have asked my Dr several times for this device but have been denied. I am diabetic but it is controlled so I have been told no by two Drs in the practice that told me I dont need it. I am glad there is a device for people who can not a prescription like myself but I have to purchase it on my own. I don’t think that is fair since I pay for insurance but at this point I have no choice. I wish there was a Dr Ken in my area but these Drs are few and far between.
This was a LIFE CHANGER for me!
I deeply Recommend it!
Super, Super, Super Helpful!
If you ever look back in 20 years, you will see how much our blood sugar has increased to be almost. I look back the same with blood sugar and you realize one thing it’s all about money yet again we’ve been monitoring my blood sugar for a while now it’s been close but I know when he says we want to start monitoring him more. I’m gonna tell him. No
Thank yoh!😊
A high sensor cost to see sugar and carbs not good if you are T2. 😊
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Please note….I have reactive hypoglycemia caused by a pancreatic insulinoma tumor. That’s another reason for having a CGM.
I had low potassium readings several times since 2013 which makes no since because I used to eat tons of fruit and vegetables . Went low carb I felt a bit better and my potassium improved a little .
after covid I passed out I then found out I have hypoglycemia. Looked it up found out it causes low potassium.
Went carnivore no more hypoglycemia.
Now if I eat carbs I try to wear cgm to keep myself from having hypoglycemia.
Only problem with these over the counter one is there is no alarm for when you have hypoglycemia in your sleep
My dr wouldn’t give me one
Continuous insulin monitor that’s what somebody needs to invent fabricate and sell