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In the past week, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by diabetes (device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low)?
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I DID NOT HAVE ANY INSURANCE FOR FIRST 5 YEARS AFTER DIAGNOSIS
GENERALLY IT WAS MORE EXPENSIVE BY ABOUT $200 PER MONTH JUST FOR INSULIN, SYRINGES AND NEEDLES. THE INSURANCE ALLOWED OUR FAMILY TO PURCHASE OUR FIRST HOUSE.
While I have had some highs and lows during sleep, my Control IQ system makes corrections during my sleep. I believe that I entered a bolus once early in my sleep this week.
My own fault. Have new tandem pump and need to stop second guessing the pump. Was on MDI for three years and have to learn to give up control. New mantra is trust the pump.
Every three days, 2am, my pump alerting that in the morning my pump pod will expire.
Jane: I’m exactly the same. Started Dexcom G7 CGM and then a week later the Tandem TSlim pump after many years on Medtronic pump but no CGM. Giving up control is hard. Plus, when it tells me to eat my inclination is to do so. After dropping to 49 I could no longer trust and had to eat a couple of glucose tablets and that stopped the low alarm. I had just changed the cartridge and I ALWAYS go low with fresh insulin so I think I need to lower my basil dosages like I did on Medtronic. I had a 30% preset dosage and I think I need the same on tandem although my Endo and educator said wait. But after hitting 49, I couldn’t not react. Takes some getting used to. But I am 85% in range up from 75% with Medtronic.
Two nights is unusual. For some reason my nighttime basal was sending me low (has been the same for over a year). Nothing unusual about those days/nights. I adjusted after the second night, and have been fine since. Have no idea why????
Saw my endo a week or so ago and did some more tweaking to my night time settings. Much better since but not perfect yet. Never will be.
I’ve been having occlusion alerts for several months lately. I’m in the process of trying different infusion sets that Tandem has sent to me. My findings seem to relate to the infusion site or the tubing. I check the cartridge by removing the tubing from the tail. I always get insulin from there. Several times I get no insulin from the attached tubing. When I check the cannula site it usually shows no signs of a cause for no delivery. It’s very frustrating.
One night when my G7 Sensor failed at 0200. One night when my Pump canular disconnected from my body of course in the deep night.
My alarms are tight (70-130), with predictive alarms for each extreme or for quick movement up or down. While I’ll generally shrug off a 71 or 72 will at least look at the graph (for a trend?), depending how the pump is acting might ignore a 140 as well. I can fall back to sleep easily, must work due to my levels and a1C.