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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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Honestly, I guessed “2”. It’s not something I keep track of. Usually, when it happens, I’m asleep, and just push the buttons to stop the alarm, and take either insulin or honey, if needed. Then, back to sleep. It’s forgotten about by morning.
Few lows more highs
When my CGM is on my right arm I get more Bluetooth dropouts. Usually just a matter of taking it out of my t-shirt pocket and laying next to my arm on the bed. So I don’t have to wake all the way up, and fortunately the Tandem alert for that is recognizably distinct from low BG and other stuff, but it still counts. Had some pressure-low alarms this week too. Seems like it’s always something!
What is a “pressure low” alert? And yes, William, I’m with you on the alarms most-frequently being that the connection is lost.
This can be quite a problem. Once the alert is “treated” by insulin or honey, it often continues to go off until a satisfactory BS level is reached. It’s not the frequency per week that is an issue, it’s the frequency during a single night that is miserable!
@beth nelson. I’m with you on the point about getting repeated alarms during one specific ‘episode’. I have gastroparesis, so even when I’ve treated a ‘low’, my pump repeatedly alarms every 15 minutes until my CGM recognises [recognizes] that my blood glucose level has reached the ‘normal’ range, which can sometimes take up to about 2 hours.
I suppose you could count it as an advantage that as I age I now wake up to use the bathroom every night, which gives me an opportunity to check by blood sugar and correct — which I almost always have to do because my insulin sensitivity seems so variable. Fortunately because I am a good sleeper, I can’t really say that m sleep is “disrupted,” only “interrupted.” Of course many times it works the other way: my CGM wakes me up, so I then use the bathroom as well as correct. Either way, my control is improved.
I am a very light sleeper so I wake up a few times even if no alarms sound. Always check BS and adjust if needed.
Shut up and work do not bother me!!! NEVER wake me or anybody else because the signal dropped. 1,000% irrelevant that “I am still low”, the arrow up means SHUT UP machine (sic. and its been addressed). Trending sideways/downward after low alarms, fine play more. But trending UP, then SHUT UP…………… I WAS crashing… now be silent. Nobody needs an air raid siren warning us we’re climbing out of that hole…
Although this US a recurring question, I don’t keep track. I guessed 4. Even though I’m on CIQ, I still go low and stay high.
I am not on an algorithm because I am on G7 and Omnipod 5. I’m not crazy about the Omnipod 5 algorithm so I have chosen to go manual. I am still working on basal adjustments and it is difficult to do that over the holidays. When I am back into a routine I will work on basal adjustments.
At least twice a week the pump alert goes off at 3am to notify me the pump pod is expiring the next morning- ugh!
My tSlimX2 CIQ is programmed to have the Eric Cartman response (I do what I want. I do what I want.) 😵😵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpF9O0R873I
My alarms are tight, so I kind of expect a few noises.
One of the few weeks with no out-of-range alerts. Although, I did run too high (140s-150s) overnight this week to suit me.
Transitioning from Tandem CIQ and G6 to G7 and need update on Tandem (back to manual control as pump can’t get numbers from G7)