Miracle Cure.

(Not for diabetes.  What kind of a blog do I look like?  Hang on ... let me stir up this cocktail of chocolate shake and cinnamon that's sure to kick my pancreas back into high gear.)My Dexcom rash started last August, soon after a business trip to San Diego.  The rash was instant and seemed to crop up out of nowhere, with one sensor leaving behind nothing more than the wee pinprick of the sensor insertion to the next one leaving a trail of weeping, swollen skin in its wake.  Not comfortable, and difficult to pinpoint the cause.  "It's an allergy," said the Internet.  And my doctors confirmed said allergy, only without any real suggestions as to how to fix it.  The inhaler trick worked, but then there was a concern about putting that kind of steroid on my skin consistently.  The Toughpad has been the best solution so far, but even that can leave a red ring of distress, depending on how battered the site becomes.  It's not just the "wearing the sensor" part that is problematic.  It's what's left behind on my skin when the sensor is pulled off.  Even with the Toughpad, my skin's aftermath is irritated.  Not nearly as harshly as before, but enough so that I can't put another sensor in that area for weeks.  (And if the skin is subjected to super cold environments, aka the Blizzard of 2013?  Even the skin patches that hosted sensors months ago suddenly became scaly and red, itching madly and ...
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