Sure! I use the front of my arms, as I alternate sides and the backs of my arms for my pump. I usually place the sensor in the lower inside/side of my tricep and it seems to give me good readings there! I can add a picture of the location as well if that simplifies it.
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A picture would be awesome! Never thought of that as a possible place and I need some new real estate. Thanks!
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I found this to b true, and it took me a while before finding my “sweet spot.” Even though im only talking about an inch here or an inch there, it seems to have made a difference. The farther back on my arm i place the dexcom, the better my readings are. I have no idea why this is, but for me, it is what it is! 
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I am desperate for some new real-estate !!! I would love to find new “in-line-of-site” areas for my POD, too.
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@daisymae I just want to say hi, and I hope you are doing better.
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Hi CarlosLuis! So nice of you to ask. About 1 1/2 months ago, I began using the OMNIPOD 5 series. I am sooooo extraordinarily happy. to b totally tubeless, there are not the right words to express myself. I am also over the moon that it requires very little thought on my end. And, I havent had to finger stick but a few times (to recalibrate my dexcom).
Not much else to say at this hour of the morning. Having a snack then back to bed 
I hope you’re well and would love to hear about how youve been doing.
DM
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The G7 is way smaller, so compression lows are definitely less of an issue. Clarity integrates fine. Good luck with the switch.
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Thanks for the EU info. I am having a rough time with the G7 15 day. Maybe too high on back of arm, but compression lows and first 24 hours reading 26 points higher than fingerstick. I calibrated and will see what is next. I may try abdomen since I am a side sleeper. And, because I am so used to reviewing my 2-day data in clarity each am to inform my Basal amount (I do MDI), just not loving the 3-day being shortest timeframe. I make pretty quick changes and have been smooth with g6, but this seems so different. Not a fan of the bumpy feel when checking hourly glucose from overnight and that it is in exact 5-min increments rather than g6 showing either real or algorithm BGs (I go in one-hour increments from supper to wake up to see patterns overnight, so may look at say 5:16, then 6:16 etc pn g6, if that makes sense). The 15 minutes I spend each morning before exercise pays off all day in terms of basal and even informing different meal I/C ratios. I am probably an oddball, but I loved the g6 far more than this so far. And if MARd is so important, seems the regular g7 is a hair more accurate, but then that makes Libre 15 day most accurate, but I have not used their system for years. Anyway, personally a rough start with no sleep, multiple lows and to wake up and find it 26 points too high from fingerstick (2 - one in left hand and one in right, both same). Maybe abdomen can work. Sure wish I could still access the 2-day data that I am familiar with and trust - but change happens. . .
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You have to be a little bit careful about MARD. If a study measures the average error while people with insulin-dependent diabetes are dosed with insulin and glucose to check the accuracy with BG moving through widely varying levels while another company measures MARD with people who are not insulin dependent and who are sitting watching TV in a quiet room, you can expect the former study to show a worse MARD, and that doesn’t tell much about the accuracy of the device in practice. If you want to see hugely-varying MARD numbers for each of various CGM products, look at the bar charts in Figure 2 of Benefits and Limitations of MARD as a Performance Parameter for Continuous Glucose Monitoring in the Interstitial Space - PMC
Bottom line is you can’t just compare the MARD that Dexcom advertises for the G7 15-day with the MARD that Abbot advertises for the Libre 15 day, because they have been measured under different circumstances, not by a standardized test protocol.
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Thanks for that information @bkh. I wrongly assumed the methodology would be the same. Wow! Very good to know.
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