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      And sometimes I dream that I’ve run out of insulin and cannot get prescription refilled.
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      I providee an answer of low BG. But with that said, it is usually a false alarm (compression low from Dexcom sensor) With the stable bedtime BG and a TSlim X2 pump using CIQ and Sleep Mode, I consistently sleep between about 85 and 110 every night. The key to this is going to bed with a stable BG (85-110) and not having any IOB.
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      While middle-of-the-nght alerts are frustrating and irritating, I'm no longer terrified of dying from an extreme low in the middle of the night, so technology is still a win for me!
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      I get a notice of high glucose levels that occurred several hours ago!! WHY?
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      The same as Carrolyn Barloco. I often get messages in the middle of the night that my blood glucose level was either high or low 2, 3, or 4 hours ago. This is a completely useless piece of information, and absolutely NO REASON to wake me up. This is nothing but an ANNOYING alert. Tandem and Medtronic, if you're listening, please remove this function from your pumps.
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      I wake up with physical effects of lows. Odd thing is that if I am dreaming, I will often have the same effects within my dream. Like I will be on a plane to some exotic location and start searching for snacks! Does this happen to anyone else?
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      My most frequent and favorite !!?? alarm at night is the one that tells me I had a high two hours ago! Duh!!!
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      The same as Carrolyn Barloco. I often get messages in the middle of the night that my blood glucose level was either high or low 2, 3, or 4 hours ago. This is a completely useless piece of information, and absolutely NO REASON to wake me up. This is nothing but an ANNOYING alert. Tandem and Medtronic, if you're listening, please remove this function from your pumps.
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      Yes, I appreciate device improvements but some are just plain annoying and make a difficult journey Worse, not better. And the main complaint is unnecessary alerts the user cannot adjust.
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      My most frequent and favorite !!?? alarm at night is the one that tells me I had a high two hours ago! Duh!!!
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      Yeah. Totally agree! This is totally unnecessary and extremely annoying.
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      Why isn't going to the bathroom not on this list?
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      I wake up with physical effects of lows. Odd thing is that if I am dreaming, I will often have the same effects within my dream. Like I will be on a plane to some exotic location and start searching for snacks! Does this happen to anyone else?
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      My most frequent and favorite !!?? alarm at night is the one that tells me I had a high two hours ago! Duh!!!
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    If you wear a CGM, if it alarms in the middle of the night, does it wake up other people living in your house?

    Home > LC Polls > If you wear a CGM, if it alarms in the middle of the night, does it wake up other people living in your house?
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    47 Comments

    1. Ahh Life

      The only saving grace is my wife is quite subject to diminished auditory ranges, significant otorhinolaryngologic aging deterioration, and enough vanity to eschew hearing aids. Pity. She misses all the night time fun of a stentorian pump with a mind of its own.

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    2. Brian Vodehnal

      The libre 2 app is the worst…it comes it at full volume and you can’t turn it down. Really looking forward to ditching it and trying the Eversense which has a vibrate mode so it only awakens me.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
      1. Ginger Vieira

        The Libre3 is supposed to be a lot better and it’s finally in pharmacies in the US now.

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      2. cynthia jaworski

        That’s funny, because I seldom hear it. My husband does.

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    3. gary rind

      “I live alone” might have been a good choice for an answer

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      1. Lena Selbrand

        Exactly!

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    4. Kathleen Juzenas

      My husband always hears it. Poor him but lucky me. I’m hard of hearing and don’t always hear it, so it’s my husband who alerts me.

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    5. Nevin Bowman

      My wife usually wakes me to tell my CGM is alarming.

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    6. Kristen Clifford

      My husband often hears my CGM in the middle of the night before I do

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      1. cynthia jaworski

        same here. I am glad the alarm wakes him up.

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    7. Ginger Vieira

      I always feel guilty about waking up my husband with my middle-of-the-night diabetes management needs. He’s always supportive, but I know the man would sleep through the night effortlessly if it weren’t for my T1D!

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    8. Joan Benedetto

      My son, age 10, T1 since age 18mos, does not hear the alarms. My husband does not always hear them.

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    9. TS

      I live alone

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    10. Clare Fishman

      I live alone so I wish that was provided as an answer. I said no anyway.

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    11. Annie Wall

      My Tandem is always on vibrate so I’m able to take care of any alert without him waking up. UNLESS I sleep through the vibe until it gets angry and shouts. Then my husband wakes up! These days with Control IQ working better for me, that is a rare occasion.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    12. Marsha Miller

      I have always been a sound sleeper. It wakes my husband immediately. It takes longer to wake me. He usually wakes me.😜

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    13. Kathy Morison

      The CGM alarms via my smartphone are very loud and obnoxious. Especially irritating when their false lows and I’ve been woken up for nothing. There are times I have to turn my phone all the way off because even though I have turned off all alarms, low alarms will still show up shrill and irritating.

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    14. Beckett Nelson

      I put no because I live solo

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    15. Lawrence S.

      I think my wife usually sleeps through my pump alarms. But, I’m not sure. Sometimes she says in the morning, “I heard your pump alarm go off last night.” I usually just either take insulin, or eat a snack and go back to sleep.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    16. Jane Cerullo

      I said no. But I live alone

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    17. Bruce Schnitzler

      I said I don’t know since I live alone

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    18. Janis Senungetuk

      My spouse and I both wear hearings aids when we’re awake. I keep pump and CGM on vibrate, but if I’m asleep the vibrations only wakes her up, I rarely am aware. She’ll give me a nudge and ask if I’m OK. That wakes me up and depending on the reason for the alarm I’ll take care of what needs to be done. Fortunately, Control IQ has eliminated many middle of the night lows.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    19. dave hedeen

      I changed CGM to G4, since I hav not had single nite low. Prior G3, wife moved out of bed most nites

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    20. Becky Hertz

      We’ll, my husband and I sleep in the same bed, so yes, sometimes it wakes him up.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    21. stillarobyn

      Only if I’m sharing a bed, and even then only when it produces an audio alarm, but usually I wake up on vibration.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    22. Pauline M Reynolds

      We all sleep with our doors closed. Also, others have been warned that “it’s only my alarm”.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    23. Kristine Warmecke

      My DAD service dog wakes me before my G6 does.

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      1. Kristine Warmecke

        I totally didn’t read the question correctly, lol. Long night with lows.

        7 months ago Log in to Reply
      2. Mary Coleman

        So does mine, sometimes!

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    24. Mick Martin

      The reason my alarm doesn’t wake anyone else up in the household is because I sleep in a purpose-built bedroom on the ground floor and everyone else sleeps upstairs, on the first floor.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    25. Ms Cris

      Only my partner, not those sleeping in other rooms.

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    26. Mark Schweim

      I said NO because I am awake and at work overnight, and everyone else living here is awake during the day already when I’m sleeping so even if it goes off while I’m sleeping it can’t wake up anyone else since they’re already awake.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    27. Bob Durstenfeld

      I said sometimes because it is not consistent. I am thankful for the alarms, particularly the low ones, as I am prone to sleep through them and don’t always hear them over my CPAP machine.

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    28. Don (Lucky) Copps

      Wakes up everyone but me

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    29. Mary Thomson

      Only my dog.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    30. Elle Hamann

      Dexcom alone doesn’t wake anyone else up. Dexcom Follow, by design, does wake us as parents up. 😊

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    31. AnitaS

      I am on a different level of the house than the other people so no, they don’t hear it. I am sure I sleep through some alarms as the screen sometimes shows I have been low for awhile before I wake up. Not sure if it is me just waking up or the alarm waking me. Luckily, I don’t have that happen very often and the alarm from my phone is much louder than my pump alarm.

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    32. M C

      As I’m a light sleeper, and have good hearing, I always keep my CGM on the lowest volume, so it wakes me, but no one else in the house.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    33. Donna Condi

      If it signals that I went high I can usually give myself insulin without waking my husband. However if I go low he will wake up about 50% of the time.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    34. Ceolmhor

      I answered “yes” because that seemed like the least misleading reply. But actually, my wife and I sleep in separate bedrooms because of this issue, so the literally correct answer would have been “no”.

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    35. Jeff Balbirnie

      When I did, it woke us both.

      Her paws wrapped around the pump tubing, chewing, attacking the hell out of it playing with the new “invisible string” daddy brought to bed…. just for her

      Baaad kitty!

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    36. Patricia Kilwein

      My husband is right next to me so yes of course it wakes him as well! It’s the crying for a bg every 2 hours that is so frustrating when that happens!

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    37. Bea Anderson

      Yes, always my husband and rarely my sister whose rooms are on another level will wake. Uninterrupted sleep is hard to come by at our house. My OB-gyn husband gets calls most nights…has to go in often, so he generates plenty of noise getting up and ready to go in the middle of the night. My alarms are heard by him first however and he has almost always been sweet waking me and asking me is everything is ok. And when I know he needs some consistent sleep, I’ll move to the couch or another bedroom if I know its going to be a night of alarms or if he knows he’s going to get called a lot.

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    38. Sue Herflicker

      I am not sure if my alarms wake up members of my household, however, if we are traveling, camping, sharing rooms then the answer is yes! I also share my numbers with 2 family members and my urgent low does wake them up, but on their phones.

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    39. T1D4LongTime

      Yes, if it is a low less than 55. However, I keep the pump on vibrate, so sometimes it will wake up my husband but usually it is because of me making noise getting carbs that wakes him up.

      7 months ago Log in to Reply
    40. Iggy1066

      I will sleep through anything so it has to be loud and annoying to wake me up so my wife hears it all.

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    41. PamK

      I keep my CGM set to vibrate so that it doesn’t wake my spouse. Otherwise, it constantly woke him!

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