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CaliforniaDiabetic
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- Retired Chiropractor & Acupuncturist
- Sep 5, 2021
- #1
K’Watch Glucose is a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor) device that will track your glucose level continuously throughout the day and night. Check your sugar levels discreetly by simply glancing at the watch. The glucose trend and history graphs will help you to improve your glucose level control.
There are several glucose watches out there but they are expensive. Does anyone use them right now?
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Lynnw
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- Type 2 (?)
- Sep 5, 2021
- #2
CaliforniaDiabetic said:
K’Watch Glucose is a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor) device that will track your glucose level continuously throughout the day and night. Check your sugar levels discreetly by simply glancing at the watch. The glucose trend and history graphs will help you to improve your glucose level control.
There are several glucose watches out there but they are expensive. Does anyone use them right now?
I don't think any CGM 'watch' actually exists, except the ones that can pick up readings from a Dexcom or other CGM sensor. We've been hearing about these "through the skin" monitors for years but as far as I know, none has actually materialized. I have no interest in expensive gadgetry.
beatingmybetes
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- Diabetic since 2017
- Sep 5, 2021
- #3
CaliforniaDiabetic said:
K’Watch Glucose is a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor) device that will track your glucose level continuously throughout the day and night. Check your sugar levels discreetly by simply glancing at the watch. The glucose trend and history graphs will help you to improve your glucose level control.
There are several glucose watches out there but they are expensive. Does anyone use them right now?
There was a brief moment when I flirted with the idea of using a Libre a few times per-year (3-4 sensors, per year), but actually I'm not really that interested. Moreover, I worry about the implications of this technology eventually becoming standard for the 'average' Jo/Josephine.
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1986
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- MA USA
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- T2 1986, insulin 2000, Double 08, Omnipod 6/12
- Sep 5, 2021
- #4
beatingmybetes said:
There was a brief moment when I flirted with the idea of using a Libre a few times per-year (3-4 sensors, per year), but actually I'm not really that interested. Moreover, I worry about the implications of this technology eventually becoming standard for the 'average' Jo/Josephine.
Why do you "worry" about the average Jo getting it.
Between the CGM and the insulin pump, If I could have only one I would be hard pressed to chose. But I would go with keeping the CGM over the pump.
beatingmybetes
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1986 said:
Why do you "worry" about the average Jo getting it.
Because perfectly healthy people are going to be steered away from perfectly healthy foods due to the prevailing attitude of the wider low-carb community that any rise in blood-sugar is to be avoided as much as possible.
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yakers
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- Pasadena CA
- Sep 5, 2021
- #6
As soon as a reliable CGM watch comes out from a qualified source (I'm talking to you Apple) I'm buying one. I understand my finger BG meter is useful for tracking trends and occasional bits of information and was critical in establishing my way of eating. If a lot of people learn that sugar is not good so much the better.
coravh
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- Ontario, Canada
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- T1 since 1966, pumper since '03, transplant '08
- Sep 5, 2021
- #7
This is simply another one that claims to be able to accurately and precisely measure glucose through the skin. The old GlucoWatch was a total failure in this department and I suspect that this one will end up in the same boat. As far as I know there is no currently available tech to be able to read glucose through the outside of the skin reliably.
And their website uses all the standard (and stupid) sales techniques of 'heavy and painful' glucose monitoring. It's that sort of 'selling' that says nothing but scam to me.
eta: my mistake. I read more on it and it has a series of micro needles that pierce the skin and sample interstitial fluid. So you will still be poking yourself and yet most likely won't get the continuous reading of a cgm (continuous glucose monitor). So only the data from a fingerstick, with lag times like the interstitial readings in a 'normal' cgm. This just perpetuates the myth of "oooohhh the horrors of doing a fingerstick". Give me that more accurate data any day
Ish Kabibble
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- NW Ohio 🇺🇸
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- Type 2
- Sep 5, 2021
- #8
CaliforniaDiabetic said:
K’Watch Glucose is a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor) device that will track your glucose level continuously throughout the day and night. Check your sugar levels discreetly by simply glancing at the watch. The glucose trend and history graphs will help you to improve your glucose level control.
Plus the OP post was verbatim from the vendor’s website. And, it’s not available as of today. All you have to do is sign up for updates.
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PeterPumper
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- NJ, USA
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- T1 since 1985, MM Pump 2013, CGM 2015
- Sep 5, 2021
- #9
This looks stupid!
It looks like the watch will cost about $200, and on top of that it requires a monthly sensor which sits under the watch and actually has the above mentioned penetrating pins, and that is expected to cost $99/month.
So, for somewhere between the ongoing costs of a Libre2 and a Dexcom, you still need to purchase a $200 device (which is more expensive than a Libre Reader, and far more than using a phone. And regardless, you're always testing in the same spot - under your wrist. Everyone in the diabetes community knows the importance of Site Rotation, whether we're talking about Finger tests, injection or infusion sites, or CGM placement. And these yahoos think it's a good idea to constantly use the same spot on a wrist? I guess they aren't worried about scar tissue buildup (of course, by then they've made the money).
Plus, you're wearing a watch that does very little.
Better to get a Dex or Libre and a decent Smartwatch (Apple or Samsung) which has far more functionality at just a bit more money. Heck, my sis uses a fitbit to display her Dex numbers.