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If you use an automated insulin delivery system (also sometimes known as a hybrid closed-loop system), how do you feel like your sleep changed when you started using your current device? Share more about your experiences with sleep and automated insulin delivery in the comments!
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I rested better because my overnight bg was much more in control. My A1c improved by .5 and I was already doing well (consistently under 6)
Alarms, what can I say other than life of a diabetic?
Other than the alarms, I think my sleep has improved because my bgs are better controlled. I wish the alarms would stop after first – I have usually eaten carbs after first alarm – second time is just annoying
I rest much better now since I no longer have to worry about severe lows when asleep. If only the day time hours were as good!
I said improved a little because my blood glucose levels stay within range better. However, I still have highs and lows, but not quite as often. The alarms keep going off all night to keep me awake. It is very annoying! Especially the dumb alarm that tells me that I had a high or low blood glucose 2, 3, or 4 hours ago. TOTALLY USELESS INFORMATION!!!!!!!!! YOUR ARE KEEPING ME AWAKE!
Look at the response from Marty above. He described a way to keep those useless alarms from going off.
I used to have mid-night alarms several times a week and now I’m woken by an alarm less than once per month. Huge improvement! It also helps that I turned off every alarm except for the severe low alarm on my pump and rely on my watch/phone for other alarms. If I use the “Do not disturb” setting on my phone while I sleep, I’m not woken by the other annoying/useless alarms like the complaint that my blood sugar was high three hours ago.
Literally the BEST thing to ever happen to me!! I am so thankful for my insulin pump!!!
While I said decreaseda little, it is because it is in conjunction with a CGM. I’ll get alarms that my BSG is too low. While waking me up, I’ll take that over the alternative of not waking up, even in the morning. That had happened before and paramedics were called as I was comatose. A little sleep is not much to give up to be alive.
Mmmmmm, my sleep may have improved a little bit since I’ve been using an iAIDs, but not much difference since I began using a pump a couple of decades ago.
Like everything else, “improved / worsened” is relative to how lousy management had bEen in prior era.
Quality of sleep has decreased a bit because of CGM alarms. I especially find the 3 AM reminder alarm that 3 hours ago I had a high or low bg level very useless and annoying.
Look at the response from Marty. He described a way to stop those useless alarms.
Quality of sleep has decreased alot because of CGM alarms.
I answered that my sleep has improved a little. My experience will sound a lot like some of the rest of y’alls . I sleep better because I’m not as worried about going low, but at the same time this good sleep is interrupted by useless alarms! Nonetheless, I wouldn’t want to give up my closed-loop system, so…..there’s the info for whatever its worth!
A lot!
Switching from 670 to TSlim the overnight alarms completely stopped and I have a flat line hovering around 100 all night!
For me, much less sleep disturbance w HCL-CGM compared to open loop pump and CGM. Far fewer night lows. I had fewer sleep disturbances prior to CGM, but occasional very severe hypoglycemic reactions, many requiring 911 calls, or my wife bailing me out. My life was in danger as a result. I’ll never not use CGM again.
My sleep improved, but the bedtime improvement was my morning BG being consistently between 90 and 110. It is so much easier to manage T1D whe you start the day in range.
I just switched to the OmniPod5, so it’s literally stuck to you. I try to place it in an area on my body where I’m not laying on it in my sleep, but so far it’s been a trying time to find that perfect spot or area.
My warranty on my Tandem Slim x2 is expiring this coming summer. I would like to try a tubeless system but the problem you are describing is a reason I may just stay with a tubed pump. Having tubing really doesn’t bother me.
Alarms are annoying. but with AID, I experience a a lot fewer of them.
The main reason I switched from a separated pump and CGM system to the Tandem Control IQ was because I hoped that I would get fewer CGM alarms during the night. Now I almost never get an alarm after bedtime. A1c is great and time in range well over 90%
O5 has worsened my overnight numbers whereas I have finally reached some better numbers during the day. I have been on O5 since early November. I have found it difficult to work with an algorithm based on total daily insulin vs basal insulin.
Knowing that if I do go low that my Pump will stop delivering insulin and alarms will sound to wake me and my husband gives me mental peace of mind. But I do wake up more often because of the alarms but I have never had a problem going back to sleep immediately.
Have been on Control IQ about a year, it wakes me up a lot. Why wake me up, if the algorithm indicates to DO NOTHING?
I am not sure if my sleep improved a lot or not, but waking up to blood sugars not much above 100 every day is definitely something that didn’t happen often like it does since having a pump with A.I.D.
I switched from Med. 670G to Tandem with Dexcom 6, hourly nightly alarms are no more. Changing to Tandem was a live changing event for me.
I would say it worsened a little. NOT because of the pump, but rather because of the CGM. Alarms, while necessary, disturb my sleep. As a child and pre-pump adult, I slept very sound. 3am extreme lows were a problem, but found eating popcorn or complex carb snack before bed took care of the lows. Oh, to sleep and not keep the phone on! Those days are gone!