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In the past week, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
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Sleep interrupted 7, yet asleep within 5 minutes ea time.
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The disrupted sleep is one of the most challenging things with CIQ, particularly the unnecessary ones like compression lows or signal loss, much as i try to avoid them. The other unnecessary one in the middle of the night is the one that wants us to check a blood sugar because we were high 2 hrs ago, even if it is normal now – so annoying! As a senior whose sleep is getting more disrupted by age related sleep changes, more difficulty falling back asleep and needing to empty my bladder, I would love to avoid the unnecessary alarms.
Things are leveling out now. Just changed to MDI from Omnipod and had to play with basal. So all good last two nights.
One, it was a good week.
I hate it when my CGM wakes me because my BG is dropping, but it’s so much better than years ago when my wife had to inject glucagon, call 911, and I’d wake up with EMTS poking me.
Almost never happens anymore. After the switch to low-carb (LCHF) 11 years ago, all those disruptions went away. I maybe have an incident of too low blood glucose level once every second year.
Before the diet switch; maybe once every, or second, week.
My Dexcom G6 as it nears the end of it’s 10 day session it starts to become erratic and report LOW for 5 to 10 minutes then be back to normal again or it looses signal multiple times. This behavior is not agreeable with a good nights sleep.
That happens with my G6 too, I agree very irritating.
My CGM does not alarm since I don’t need that feature but I do check my glucose at least once during the night. I check it any time I wake up just to be sure and I never sleep the entire night.
Although I selected 6 nights the alerts were for both highs and lows, plus requesting me to calibrate the sensor against my pump AND to change my sensor.
Sometimes I am just aware and then check. Maybe an a low alarm at 78 which I ignore because it almost always just goes up. I have a tandem pump with IQ technology. I almost always wale up at about 112.
My own fault for overeating with gastroparesis.
I took a guess. I don’t usually make a conscious section to “county”. More than usual this post week so I put 4.
Answered 1 a week- Far less on Control IQ than in past years!
so much better since Control IQ!
Twice this week, starting with a high alarm at 3 AM when I pulled the infusion set out with a twisted blanket. Two nights later C-IQ awoke me with a warning that I would be low in 15 minutes…didn’t happen. Since I started using the C-IQ app in my Tandem pump I’ve rarely experienced lows at night. Recently, there have been more issues with wild numbers from the G6 that trigger false alarms.
I often wake up on my own at least twice during the night. If I’m awake enough I will look at my pump. I’ve been experiencing highs overnight for the last week and don’t know why. So pretty much every night for the last week I have given myself corrections overnight but my sensor hadn’t gone high enough to trigger an alarm. My high is set for 160. Even though the pump didn’t wake me, it would have soon enough when my BG hit 160.
I always snack before sleep and may have a high in 1 or 2 hours, then most often have a low alarm around 6 AM but I wake that tine to pee any way. I set my CGM alarms at 70 and 180.. I do not use a pump.
Now I know what a “compression low” is. If I lay on my sensor/transmitter, it alerts to false low BG. I checked with my One Touch this morning after receiving a Dexcom alert, then rolled to my other side. Sure enough, the Dexcom quickly returned to normal range. The main thing disrupting my sleep is getting up to urinate at last once a night. I no longer need to eat a bedtime snack.
Compression lows are the bane of CGM.