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In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
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As I have stated several times before, every time I change my set after the first day most of the time, I need to reset the Basels. (The first day is just to monitor the numbers.)
I have turned off alerts for Dexcom. Changed sensor and had to turn off again. Last night woke me up. I answered 4 because I usually get up to use bathroom at least once during night and I check to make sure I am not high or low. And fix.
I managed to get poison ivy all around my eyes, so I have been on prednisone for the past 5 days. Despite increased basal (45%) and frequent extra boluses, I haven’t been below 200, so I have been disrupted all the time. Normally, in 7 days, it’s more like 2 times.
I usually have to temp basal 200% when on steroids.
Hi Sherolyn –
I’m so sorry about getting poison ivy around your eyes and having to take prednisone to help. Steroids are the WORST thing for blood sugars!
Hope you are feeling better now!
I answered 0, but I have no devices.
I happened to get one of those “signal loss” error messages from my Dexcom last night at 3 am. I thought I woke up enough to turn off my CGM to avoid more alerts but it was up and running this morning and had managed to guide my BG to my typical morning BG of 115. I very rarely have any problems at night since I started using sleep mode in Tandem Control IQ.
I answered zero. I think I have received alerts at night about three times since I started the Omnipod 5 and Dexcom since August.
My DEXCOM sensor was faulty.
With control IQ, sleep disturbance from low BG are far less common than before using it. CGM protected me from severe hypoglycemia, but often caused sleep disturbance; w CIQ, lows at night are infrequent and my fault for over treating snacks before bed.
Going to give CIQ a try when I get my new pump. Hoping it will cut down on the night disturbances.
in the past 7 days? None at all. I usually sleep through the night with Tandem CQI. Occasionally I may get an alarm with arrows indicating high or low BG, or announcing it’s time to insert new sensor or to fill and insert a new cartridge.
From a CGM and pumping learned I needed quite a bit less basal overnight than through the day, with just a CGM now playing a balancing game. Dose for overnight levels rise in the day, dose for the day levels plummet overnight. My alarms are tight (70-130), I get frequent alarms to correct to stay as close to a normal range and live (am retired, always lived on 4-5 hours sleep so this is no problem). Plan on a pump next year, just which?
Every night for lows.. never for highs… For past 70 years, I guess..
I forgot, I always wake up around 5 or 6 AM to pee, so I check my CGM..