{"id":198426,"date":"2010-01-19T09:52:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T14:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/pumping-insulin\/47769-cgms-accuracy-and-hydration.html"},"modified":"2010-01-19T09:52:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T14:52:24","slug":"cgms-accuracy-and-hydration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/198426","title":{"rendered":"CGMS Accuracy and Hydration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;m not sure if anyone&#8217;s posted about this in the past, but I wanted to pass this on to those of you using a CGM system.<\/p>\n<p>I find that I have MUCH better accuracy with the CGMS if I&#8217;m well-hydrated.  Prior to my pregnancy I had great accuracy with the sensors, but then after my daughter was born it really went downhill!  I couldn&#8217;t figure out what was different, but my CDE suggested that hydration might be a factor since I&#8217;m breastfeeding and often less well-hydrated than I used to be as a result (I have trouble keeping up with the water intake).  Since then I&#8217;ve really watched how accurate my readings are according to how much fluid intake I&#8217;ve had and it really does seem to make a significant difference for me.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this will be the case for everyone (probably not), but I thought if there are some of you out there who are frustrated with CGMS accuracy lately, this might be worth a try&#8230;drink more!  (Ahem&#8230;water, that is.)  If it works it works, and if it doesn&#8217;t, you haven&#8217;t lost anything other than maybe the time it takes for a couple more trips to the bathroom!<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it makes sense given that the CGMS relies on interstitial FLUID to give its readings&#8230;but who knows.  It&#8217;s working for me!  I&#8217;ve got fantastic accuracy now and am LOVING my CGMS again!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if anyone&#8217;s posted about this in the past, but I wanted to pass this on to those of you using a CGM system. I find that I have MUCH better accuracy with the CGMS if I&#8217;m well-hydrated. Prior to my pregnancy I had great accuracy with the sensors, but then after my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}