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If you use time in range reports, what blood glucose level is set as the threshold for your “High” range? If you have different target range settings depending on the time of day, please answer with the High setting at 12 p.m. in your time zone.
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I use the Dexcom default of 70-180 for tracking. BUT, I use 80-150 for daytime alarms. Nighttime alarms I have left at 70-180.
Someday I hope to reduce my TIR tracking to 80-160, but my goal is to consistently stay in 70-180 first.
Isn’t the recommended high threshold 180 for time-in-range? I would have thought that everyone would use that. However, I just read an article on another Diabetes forum about “Time in Tight Range” which is 70-140. An endocrinologist recommended that our TITR be 50% or greater. I checked and I am at 84% TIR and about 55% TITR. Gives light to today’s question.
The article is at diaTribe and here is the link: https://diatribe.org/time-tight-range-new-diabetes-goal?omhide=true
We do 65 to 120, I would set to 100, but it only goes to 120
I use 180 for “time in range reports” as that is what my endo uses but I have my Dexcom high alarm set at 150 so I can perhaps do something about it before it climbs to 180.
I set the high at 150 and then decide if I need to give a correction bolus or to do a quick exercise or not.
Tandem uses 70-180. Don’t know if there is way to change it.
I set warning at 180-200 not b/c that is what I want (I am between 100-140 about 70% of the time) but b/c even on vibrate my Dexcom wakes up my wife if it gets high at night and any time it warns she gets more anxious than I) so though I monitor closely and walk or workout or bolus if it goes high, I can’t get low warnings at every 60, 70 or 80 or any time it is above 140, where I would set it if I lived alone…in a cave… w/ nobody who worries about me. : )
My “High” range is set at 180 mmol/dl. It is not a “range”! Not sure why this is worded this way!
Hi PamK –
If I may answer for T1D Exchange. It has to do more with aggregating data for research than what your individual answer is.
So, you have a high set of 180, but let’s pretend I have a high set at 183. Another user has a high set at 140, yet another at 145.
Instead of having to set up a question with 60 individual answers (140 through 200), they have grouped sets of numbers to make the question not only easier for us to see (60 separate answers would be extremely cumbersome for us as users to look at), but to aggregate data for research purposes.
I truly hope that helps! I’m not trying to be annoying, but I can be accidentally sometimes.
🙂
My alert for highs is 200
My alert for lows is 90
My time in range threshold is 100-180
80-200
Numbers and mathematics can be quite cruel. White blood count too high? BG too high? Or too low? Numbers and math alone fail and fail miserably at characterizing and personalizing the T1D condition. Just ask anyone who has too high or too low numbers.
These numbers and ranges are guidelines or dams along a long meandering river. And as anybody in New Orleans can tell you, occasionally they fail.
I set the normal range for bg btwn 70 and 180. I set alarms at 75 for low and 120 for high.
For reports for my endo, I use his standard of 70-180. However, day-to-day, I use 160 as the upper limit as I am trying to focus on reducing the percentage of highs I have on the TIR reports.