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What Is ‘Type Strong’ and How Can It Help You?

What Is ‘Type Strong’ and How Can It Help You?

Jun 02, 2025

Living with diabetes means constant juggling – your numbers, your food, your tech, and your mindset. Some days you feel on top of it. Other days, it’s like your CGM...

What Is ‘Type Strong’ and How Can It Help You?

Living with diabetes means constant juggling – your numbers, your food, your tech, and your mindset. Some days you feel on top of it. Other days, it’s like your CGM...

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Do You Really Need a Patch for Your CGM? A Beginner's Guide

Do You Really Need a Patch for Your CGM? A Beginner's Guide

May 30, 2025

Right, so here's the honest truth. Most CGMs - your Dexcom G7, Freestyle Libre, all that lot - they come with perfectly decent adhesive. It's not like they're designed to...

Do You Really Need a Patch for Your CGM? A Beginner's Guide

Right, so here's the honest truth. Most CGMs - your Dexcom G7, Freestyle Libre, all that lot - they come with perfectly decent adhesive. It's not like they're designed to...

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Can You Use Our Dexcom Patches on Libre Sensors? Can You Mix and Match?

Can You Use Our Dexcom Patches on Libre Sensors? Can You Mix and Match?

May 29, 2025

Right, so you've got our Dexcom patches sitting in your drawer, but you're wearing a Libre sensor. Or maybe it's the other way round - you've got Libre patches but...

Can You Use Our Dexcom Patches on Libre Sensors? Can You Mix and Match?

Right, so you've got our Dexcom patches sitting in your drawer, but you're wearing a Libre sensor. Or maybe it's the other way round - you've got Libre patches but...

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Can You Use CGM Patches on Hairy Skin? Here's What You Need to Know

Can You Use CGM Patches on Hairy Skin? Here's What You Need to Know

May 28, 2025

Right, let's talk about the elephant in the room - or should I say, the hair on your arm. You've got your new CGM sensor ready to go, but you're...

Can You Use CGM Patches on Hairy Skin? Here's What You Need to Know

Right, let's talk about the elephant in the room - or should I say, the hair on your arm. You've got your new CGM sensor ready to go, but you're...

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How to Tell if Your CGM Patch is Causing a Reaction?

How to Tell if Your CGM Patch is Causing a Reaction?

May 27, 2025

I've been there - you peel off your CGM sensor after 10 days and there's this angry red mark that just won't go away. Sometimes it's itchy, sometimes it burns,...

How to Tell if Your CGM Patch is Causing a Reaction?

I've been there - you peel off your CGM sensor after 10 days and there's this angry red mark that just won't go away. Sometimes it's itchy, sometimes it burns,...

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Medtronic CGM Patches: What’s Available and What Actually Works?

Medtronic CGM Patches: What’s Available and What Actually Works?

May 26, 2025

If you use a Medtronic CGM like the Guardian Connect or Guardian 4, you already know how helpful the tech can be for glucose management. But what many users don’t...

Medtronic CGM Patches: What’s Available and What Actually Works?

If you use a Medtronic CGM like the Guardian Connect or Guardian 4, you already know how helpful the tech can be for glucose management. But what many users don’t...

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