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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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I turn the alarms off before I go to sleep.
I usually turn my high alarm on the G6 up to 150 or 160 at night. I tend to be lower overnight anyway. Except last night! I had a dinner that really hung on…..
Sleep? What is sleep? ╮(╯_╰)╭
I often get up during the night or early hours and scan the sensor before heading to the bathroom. I don’t have alarms and have candy peppermints beside the bed . If the numbers are heading up or are high, I get up and start the day with MDI. Pre-dawn syndrome is what wakes you up too.
I answered “7”. But, normally, I would have probably said 1. Seven this week because my doctor had me on Prednisone. What a nightmare that was. I was taking up to 4 times the amount of insulin that I usually use. I changed my pump profiles and temp. basal rates a half-dozen times each day.
Been there with steroid shots in hip. Feel for you. It was a nightmare. Short time for me thankfully but I understand and sympathize.
Yes, indeed! Steroids are brutal to blood sugar!
2 times – Medtronic CGM calibration.
Came back from vacation and had a few nights with lows until I readjusted my Tresiba. I now take twice a day. Works better for me. I do usually get up two times to use the bathroom so I check then anyway.
I’m in one of those times when my digestion seems extra slow, so my supper carbs hit after I’m in bed, sometimes as much as 3 to 4 hours after the meal. So my number was higher than normal (4 nights).
Hi I also have the slow digestion experience. I think I’ve now spotted what foods cause the delay. Then I have a second fast acting injection about 3 hours after the first. Seems to work for me, except I still don’t get it right every time.
I have the same problem. The doc said that I have EPI (exocrine diabetic insufficiency), which used to be called diabetic diarrhea. Big pharma came out with a medication for EPI but I don’t take it because I think that I’m on enough meds and I’s rather used to this syndrome.
Thank you, Sherolyn, Elysse, and Reg! I _might_ have this, too. I’ve been commenting to my doctor for a few years now how my food seems to show up 2 to 4 hours after my insulin. I will take a look at other symptoms and see if this might apply.
EPI must be different than gastroparesis, though they seem similar in the slow food symptom.
I had Covid last Christmas and just now doing basal testing. So I’ve been having more notifications/alerts than normal than pre covid.
A couple times a night I get an alarm or check my bg. Have Tandem IQ but still, nights are busy…..
Chose 2, but it’s probably more. Sigh.
All 3 on same night!
I don’t have a pump or CGM that alarms since that is what I wanted. I wake up with a low – even after 65 years T1 – so I have no need of alarms. I do wake up several times at night and check my glucose, making adjustments as needed, but nothing wakes me to do this.
I got up and changed the infusion site since the corrections were not bringing down my bg high readings.
I have been having problems this week with false compression lows (i.e., look like compression lows but no actual compression). Gah! 🤪
0… But I’ve been home sick for the past two weeks so not sleeping lightly enough for anything to be able to wake me up.
Sometimes I’m disturbed, mostly with lows sometimes with highs. If I’m lucky and fighting a stubborn high, I can deal with the alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.
Because of my personnel site problems (T1D-55 years and counting.), I continue to have to change my night boluses. As I say, “oh well”, but it’s getting old!
Using the FreeStyle Libre 2 – provides alarms – in the past week, 3 times for lows, and once for ‘sensor out of range’.
Was a tough week, either a high or a low every night.
I stated “0” as I never have issues with the values during night anymore. After switching to low crab/LCHF 12 years ago. my blood sugar is always stable during night. I also don’t use and CGM or pump so there is now alarms going off.
I had more trouble with lows during the nights when eating the more traditional diabetic food.
T1D since 1981, eating max 20 gr carb/day since 2010.
I’ve tightened my alarms so I’m getting more of them right now plus if it’s not a high/low alarm there’s always a random alert like low battery or low insulin. It would be nice to not be alerted in the middle of the night when you have plenty of insulin/power to get thru the next 3 hours!!
Been experiencing a lot of nighttime highs lately, but am adjusting my basals to get them back down to normal!