Navigator - Transmitter Fell Out

[Mama Belle]

Okay, the questions are starting ...

So last night after we went to our CGMS Start/Training Samantha went to her Dad's house. We had the 10 hour warn up and turned off system alarms so she could just calibrate this morning when she woke up and BGs were stable. She doesn't think she calibrated, but I think she did calibrate but just didn't realize she was calibrating at the time (she tested using the receiver BG meter and it was after the time to calibrate so I think it used that BG as a calibration).

So when I picked her up from his house this morning before our meeting with the school nurses she walked up to the door with the transmitter in her hand and told me it popped off. When we were at the training yesterday the trainer told us that if the transmitter fell out we had to do a whole new sensor start up, that we couldn't just put the transmitter back on the sensor mount. But, I vaguely remembered reading here that others have had this happen and they just plugged the transmitter back in. So I tried it, fully expecting for it to not work, because at this point I thought she hadn't even done her first calibration yet. I inspected the sensor and saw that it was still in her arm and seated properly in the mount, so I went ahead and just did it. I had to answer "no" to 2 questions (did you remove the sensor? and did you insert a new sensor?) and within a minute we were seeing readings with arrows and I could pull up line graphs. We did some testing and the CGMS was consistently within 10-11 pts of her BG, so I took that as a good sign that I didn't totally screw up by not following the instructions we received at training. Later in the day we had success with catching a low before it happened that we confirmed by BG, so it seemed to be doing what it was supposed to do.

So, what were you guys taught? Can you plug the transmitter back in if it falls out, or do you have to start over and insert a new sensor (or pretend to insert a new sensor if the current one is still in place)? I just figured I'd find out what the consensus is on this since I imagine this will not be the first time the transmitter pops off.

[coni1523]

My son's receiver 'navigator' has falling off a lot and I just put it back on if everything looks ok. I now put a little tape on it to hold it in place.

[hold48398]

Ours has fallen out a few time, too, and I always put it right back on without any problems. Sometimes it take a couple of minutes to get the reading back but I never had funny readings because of it. I don't know why they tell us to do a new sensor when this happens...:confused:

How are you liking it so far? Any problems with the temp probe? We are currently trying a small foam bandaid under it to avoid irritation, and so far it is working like a charm :). Let's hope it continues!

Hope you are loving it...:)

[ecs1516]

I trainer told us we couldn't do that but we do. We just answer the questions like you do and it starts back no problems.
We do use a strip of opsite now on the transmitter to hold it to the top of the sensor plate. But, The opsite stretches. So, It does prevent it falling off. I still sometimes have to 'reclick' it.

[ecs1516]

Marisa,

How big a foam bandaid-.? The whole band-aid or do you cut out the square?
Interesting!!!
:)

[Mama Belle]

Oh yay, I am glad others do this too. Thanks for the feedback. :D

So far we are really liking it. Samantha has been at her dad's since we put it on (aside from school yesterday) and hasn't yet complained to me about the temp probe. I will talk to her later and ask her how it is feeling. It has been kinda hard having her be at her dad's after starting the CGMS. I feel so out of the loop. I had to call them last night and make sure they had thought of a plan for hearing alarms at bedtime. they of course hadn't even thought about it. I told Sam to put her receiver on her dad's bedside table then go into her room and read for a bit, then do back and see if the receiver was able to receive data. It worked. So I think they were going to leave the receiver in his room at night. I just wish I was able to be experiencing all of this first hand instead of second hand. But I will be able to do that soon enough.

I did ask our trainer about the temp probe causing irritation. I brought up that I had heard from "somewhere" ;) that some folks had some success with putting a drop of clear nail polish on it to help with the irritation. She laughed and got a sheepish grin on her face (I think that maybe the BDC was the center that was recommending this to patients), she said that the clear nail polish does work, but that Abbott has told them that they should not have patients do this since it can skew the functioning ability of the device. :rolleyes:

I did put a strip of IV 3000 over the transmitter yesterday morning because Samantha was so worried it would fall off while she was at school. So far I haven't gotten a call about this happening again.

[hold48398]

Marisa,

How big a foam bandaid-.? The whole band-aid or do you cut out the square?
Interesting!!!
:)

I cut a small square of the foam tape and tried to place it on the skin where the probe will go. I got it spot-on :). I didn't want to tape the probe because of the sticky part of the bandaid tape. We are due for a sensor change soon, so I will let you know how it went! So far, Mia has not complained about it bothering her but she still is itchy under it....:rolleyes:

[hold48398]

Oh yay, I am glad others do this too. Thanks for the feedback. :D

So far we are really liking it. Samantha has been at her dad's since we put it on (aside from school yesterday) and hasn't yet complained to me about the temp probe. I will talk to her later and ask her how it is feeling. It has been kinda hard having her be at her dad's after starting the CGMS. I feel so out of the loop. I had to call them last night and make sure they had thought of a plan for hearing alarms at bedtime. they of course hadn't even thought about it. I told Sam to put her receiver on her dad's bedside table then go into her room and read for a bit, then do back and see if the receiver was able to receive data. It worked. So I think they were going to leave the receiver in his room at night. I just wish I was able to be experiencing all of this first hand instead of second hand. But I will be able to do that soon enough.


I am sorry you can't be there during these first days on the N, Heidi. That must be so hard! If the N is out of range, it will start alarming to let you know that it is no longer sensing data/disconnected. This is a nice safety feature because sometimes we get a really awesome range, and sometimes not so much. We keep Mia's N on the bar by the living room which seems to be the farthest place it consistenly transmits. Our bedroom is on the other side of Mia's but the alarm is loud enough to wake me up if it is laying on the bar! I figured that if that won't wake me, then we can always put together the Radioshak solution that was suggested in another thread...:cwds: