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When you have an overnight low or high that you need wake up to treat, how often does your spouse or romantic partner also wake up?
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My husband is an incredibly light sleeper and wakes up to all of the alerts on my meter and phone app no matter how they are set. He often changes bedrooms, sometimes due to alerts, or just because he is awake.
I rarely if ever wake to these anymore. If I desired to wake, I would need to rotate through the alert sounds. Control-IQ seems to take control. My primary family are/ were very heavy sleepers.
I said, “Sometimes.” I think I catch most of the alarms. But, sometimes, my wife wakes me to say, “your alarm is going off.”
After years of hearing alarms and buzzes, I often don’t hear them. I also think this is a mechanism to allow me to get some sleep.
I’m recently Widowed but before it was rarely occurring. In younger days it was a horror trying to wake from an NPH caused Low
Rarely. I have my phone on do not disturb and my pump’s alerts are all on vibration so any that come during the night mostly just awaken me so I can simply, quiety handle a low or a high and don’t have to bother him. So much better with CIQ and eons better than the old days, when I would wake up and find a team of paramedics and my husband trying to get my blood glucose back up!
My wife sleeps like a log every night and doesn’t usually wake when I do, which is multiple times each night. And yet, she complains that I get up too much. I eventually started sleeping on the couch downstairs a few years ago. I now sleep in a separate bedroom, all for this reason. This has not been good for our marriage, but my wife prefers it this way.
Sometimes my partner is romantic.
I answered “Always”, but that isn’t actually true. It was as close as I could come from the available choices to describing our situation. We sleep in separate bedrooms precisely because she’s a light sleeper who can’t get back to sleep if she wakes up during the night, and she’s always awakened if my alarm goes off in the same room.
Thanks to Medtronic’s 780G and G4 sensors my night time lows and highs have been essentially eliminated and we are both sleeping much better. Prior to this Improvement in technology, I would occasionally wake him up with alarms.
Always. Unfortunately I’m hard of hearing, don’t wear hearing aids at night, and don’t usually hear alarms. My night owl husband is sometimes still awake or is woken by my alarms to wake me. All much to our mutual chagrin.
I replied “sometimes”. My partner and I have different sleeping schedules. She is an “owl” and up late, while I am a “lark” and up early. When I first started using a CGM, she woke up whenever it went off. Now, she only does some of the time.
I chose “Never” as I sleep in a hospital bed on the ground floor and my wife sleeps in a bed upstairs.
When I was able to get up the stairs, and we shared a bed, my wife used to wake up on the vast majority of occasions when I woke up to treat a high or a low.
Silence speaks volumes. I almost prefer vibration-konks-you-in-the-head to the hideous sounds of a sour pump. Spouse agrees. 🙃
Rarely
I picked sometimes, because he follows me on his phone only when I am an urgent low will his phone go off. Thank goodness they are far and few between.