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Sometimes it can be hard to hear important CGM alerts, especially overnight. Do you use a secondary app or device to help you hear them better?
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I have an adapted Dexcom app (for my incompatible Android cell phone) and Drip+ (to try get readings on my Android watch, but haven’t succeeded yet). The alarms on these apps are ridiculously loud. Is my BG off or is the dang building on fire?!
Gluroo and Sugarmate are more consistent and can be modified.
My husband’s phone also alerts and he tends to hear it and wake me.
I suffer from hyperalertaphobia. When I’m asleep, I don’t want to hear a lot of alerts. I’m trying to sleep. I catch the alerts when they occur. But, I could do with a lot less. Especially the one that tells me that I had a low or high blood glucose 1, 2 3 and 4 hours ago. Totally useless alerts.
I don’t have another device but I do have a diabetes alert Service Dog. She’s impossible to ignore!
Love those dogs!
Just what I need, another alert. smh
I am a light sleeper and never miss an alarm. Wear my Apple Watch at night. Also have a sugar pixel. I can look at that but I don’t have alarm set up. For some reason I go low once during night but come right back up with one glucose gummy. Also sometimes compression low with the Dexcom G7. Wish I slept so soundly that alarms wouldn’t wake up but I don’t.
I get 3 alarms one from the Tslim X2, one from the Tconnect app and one from the Dexcom app. During the day it’s quite annoying. I can usually silence the first. At night it usually takes the three going of to wake my wife, and she wakes me up.
Medtronic’s app gives an alert that always wakes me.
Only 1 cgm but I have my phone and receiver charging next to me and my husband has his phone next to him and he sleeps with his watch. No one could sleep through an alert at my house!
I wear a Fitbit versa 2 and it vibrates alerts. At night I plug in and set my phone on nightstand mode with the Sugarmate app. I very rarely have overnight highs/lows but I love the fact that if I open my eyes I can see the number without having to fumble with or open the phone.
I luckily rarely get overnight lows; my phone alert has always awakened me, but my smartwatch will buzz on my wrist a couple of minutes later. I have found the smartwatch alert to sometimes be the extra motivation I may need to attend to the low
I get alarms on my OmniPod 5 receiver and on my phone
I use the Dexcom app on my iPhone which gives a very loud emergency sound. Much louder than. The tandem pump. The tandem app isn’t loud either so I don’t use it.
I use Sugarmate which sends a standard alarm and a phone call about lows.
I have no problem hearing it
I wish there was a way of turning off the alarms when I am at certain functions that the alarm would not be appreciated. I watch my glucose levels carefully so I don’t really need all the alarms that are on Omnipod 5 and Dexcom G6.
You can change the alarm on the g6 to vibrate if you have it connected to the t:slim.
Mary I have diabetic alert dog as well. Even if I slept through all alarms he wakes me. He also helps during the day as I’m adhd and basically my brain blocks out all sounds when I’m focusing on something and ignore them.
I use the dexcom app on my phone. The sound of the alarms is much better than my pump’s
It is great to wake me up if I have a low .
My phone is set to ‘not disturb’ during the night.
the Libre3 alarms on my Pixel would wake the dead!
My Pixel watch vibrates on my wrist, my phone running xDrip+ overrides do not disturb and speaks “Low 65, “and my wife’s iPhone running Dexcom Follow makes a terrible alarm sound.
I use my smartphone and a garmin watch. However, I have found that sometimes, they do not communicate with each other. So, I just got a dog that I will be training as an alert dog.
Does my husband count as an app
I recently purchased the SugarPixel but have yet to go below 55 where I have the alarm set to go off. I did test it and it is more than loud enough to wake me and my wife. It has a large display too making it easy to glance at your values and they are present even if I am away.
I have the g6 app on my phone and that thing will wake the dead which is great because I sleep like the dead 😂
For urgent highs and lows, I receive alerts from my Omnipod as well as the CGM.
I wear an Apple Watch that vibrates
G6 on my IPhone.
My pump alert is set on vibrate, with the pump clipped to the waistband of my pajamas. CIQ does a good job of keeping my glucose level within range while I’m sleeping. Waking because I’m alerted to what my glucose level was 3 or 4 hours earlier is extremely irritating and usually results in unclipping the pump and putting it under my pillow.
Just bought a Sugar Pixel, external CGM display because I had an extremely low BG last month.
I said no but actually have the Dexcom G7 on my iPhone that alarms. I usually don’t hear either at night and rely on my husband to wake me. My being hard of hearing is a real irritation for both of us.
My Tandem pump, Mobile App and watch are set to vibrate for lows below 70. So during the day I’m notified many ways in case I miss an alert. At night both phone and pump on vibrate will wake me, and worst case scenario, the urgent low audio alarm wakes me (and my husband), though this is rare.
My only backup to my Dexcom alerts is my husband who is on the Follow app.
My CGM does not have alerts with sounds.
Sugar Pixel
The app for the OmniPod 5 is directly linked to my Dexcom G6. Regardless if I turn the G6 app off, the OmniPod app will also alert me but there’s no way to alter the settings of the alarms.
Medtronic with the phone app, using a different notification so I can be sure to wake up (RING doorbell tone, “motion front do…”
Tandem and Dexcom on my phone as well I use vibrate only on pump as I’ll feel it more than I’ll hear it.
My CGM is connected via an app to my mobile so the sound is definitely lounder.
My wife 😂
I have the opposite problem, I feel vibration but want no sound b/c sounds wake my wife.
We set up Nightscout two years prior to Dexcom share. The alarm is fabulous. We recently set up Sugarmate as well.
A watch and sugarmate
The T-connect app.
I wear an Apple watch which has tactic vibrations. This helps, especially if the app on my phone has decided not to make the alerts audible (as happens from time to time even when I can see they are supposed to be).
a diabetes educator told me to have my phone on to hear the low alarm should it go off during the night.
Sugar Pixel clock.
I just had a ambulance ride and trip to ER two weeks ago after changing to the Dexcom G7 from the Dexcom G6. I have had a Dexcom for so long I had forgotten that I had changed the alert sounds to be much louder and annoying like a loud alarm clock during the night it would wake me. I had put on a new set for my iLet bionic pancreas pump and didn’t know the canulia had bent when inserting and I didn’t get any insulin all night and went into DKA badly! I did not hear and slept right through the new G7 alerts. Ugh! Of course after the ER visit I looked and changed my alert settings back to the loud ones I was used to.
I have both my Dexcom app and my pump app audible alerts on my phone, plus audible alerts on the pump for overnight. Since Pump and CGM alerts reside on both my pump and phone apps, I routinely only use the phone app alerts, except at night
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