We recently went on a little beach vacation and I needed to make a decision as to wear the CGM or not. The worry was that I would lose the transmitter part of the CGM in the lake or on the beach. On the other hand I already knew I was going to be on a wacky schedule and the CGM would help in that aspect.
After debating in my head back and forth I decided to go without the CGM. Replacement cost can be kind of high for something like that and I figured I could just test a little more often. Overall it went very well, most of the time on the beach I was low from all the activity. Thankfully we had plenty of yummy vacation snacks.
After dinner each night we would go walking around and get some ice cream at different ice cream places. To some point with the pump it was so much easier as I ate what I wanted and then just bolused with the pump as necessary. If I was still on the Insulin Pens I would have averaged about 6-7 injections a day, instead I enjoyed things such as a Downtown Dog, Chocolate Monster, Cappuccino Chocolate Chip, Blue Moon, Birthday Cake, and Chocolate Decadence (only one was not an ice cream). The CGM would have certainly helped but overall I did very well with bolusing for all the yummy treats.
Out of fear I didn't take the CGM transmitter or sensors along which to a degree made me extra careful because I wanted to enjoy the week without having the highs and lows of diabetes.
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