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- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  karolinamalecki7@gmail.com has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  Lot #7310059 & #7310865
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  William Bennett has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  COMPRESSION LOWS!!! AGGGH! Like karolinamalecki7@gmail.com, it seems like the recent formulation of Dexcom sensor filaments is way more susceptible to the compression-low phenom, and man if you're a side-sleeper is it a PITA. Upper arms just aren't an option for me any more unless I want to wake up multiple times in the night with breaking-glass Urgent LOW!!! alarms when my actual BG is like 90. Even belly locations, same thing, unless I place them way in next to my navel but even that's not totally preventative. And it uses real estate I need for my infusion sets. This is definitely a new thing, within the last 6-9 months. For years I heard the expression "compression low" and only thought was "Gee, sure glad I don't have that problem." Oh, it's a problem now.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  T1D4LongTime has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  A few months ago, alarms at night were seldom. Now, my schedule and eating patterns have been chaotic, so I'm going low just as I go to bed.... having to remember to monitor my BG closer 30 mins prior to bedtime. I answered 5 times out of 7
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Annie Wall has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  Dexcom was the game changer for me. I'll never forget waking up in the middle of the night with several men standing around my bed, including my husband (who I called Dad!). My blood glucose was so low my husband couldn't get it to rise as he usually could, so he had to call the ambulance. Those days are long gone with Dexcom.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Annie Wall has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  You could try the InPen. While I was on a pump vacation, I used the InPen for two years with Dexcom. It does shoot 1/2 units and has really good software reports. You have the one pen for a year at a time and you buy insulin cartridges for it.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Lawrence S. has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  I don't have the lot numbers for all of mine that went - - - , but the most recent one was lot number: 5311136, expiration date 10/31/23
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Steven Gill has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  Generally 3-4 nights a week I get woke up, my alarms are set for 70-125 which is pretty tight. I'm a super light sleeper (can hear my cat go out the doggy door) and can return to sleep as easily. Plan to tighten them up again after next doc's visit.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Kristine Warmecke has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  @Patrica Dalrymple I mean DAD (Diabetic Alert Dog or service dog) Yes she is specially trained.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Chip Brookes has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  I am awakened by the alarm stating a lost CGM connection. I Have rolled onto my Tandem pump so that it is not receiving a signal. I rarely am awakened by low alerts. If I am, then it is usually accurate. It does seem that the Dexcom G6 does sometimes in the first 24 hours or so of a new installation the G6 will give false low alerts.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Jan Masty has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  It was at least 3 nights mostly due to dexcom issues. The dexcom is great WHEN it works right, I’ve had a few lately that tell me I have a crashing low when it absolutely is not and it has nothing to do with “ compression lows”.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Gustavo Avitabile has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  I wake up at least twice per night because I need the bathroom or because of alarms. If I go to the bathroom, I also check, and correct if necessary, my blood glucose; if an alarm wakes me up, I also go to the bathroom. In no case this is disturbing: I fall asleep again as soon as I return to bed.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Mark Schweim has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  It becomes difficult to honestly answer such questions since I work 12+ hour night shift so I'm awake literally all night long most nights anyway and even on my nights off work I do most of my sleeping during the daylight hours.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  mbulzomi@optonline.net has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  I get warnings every time I do a set change. (Two in seven days) As I have sated many times before, when I change a set, I always have to make changes to my Basels. As you all know, site absorption problems. I'm starting into my 55th T1D year. Still much to active to use my thighs or rear. You may be able to put a sensor under your arms, but not a "Q" set.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Patricia Dalrymple has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  I don’t use a CGM so I said 0. My Endo helped me adjust my basal rate so I don’t go low while sleeping like I did. Usually I will wake up hot when I am low or have very strange dreams when high, so I guess I have a built in CGM.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Patricia Dalrymple has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  I assume you mean your DOG but that is awesome. Is your dog especially trained to do that?
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  My pet peeve is when the alarm wakes me up to tell me that I had a high reading two hours ago!
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Karen Taylor has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  The Tandem t:slim X2 has been a real life changer for me. I love it. I changed because of the cost of omnipod through Medicare and really didn't want to. But now I realize how beneficial it is along with the Dexcom. And I won't have the cost of paying for the pods anymore
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Becky Hertz has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  I said 3, but I really don't know cause I don't keep track. My sleep has been more disturbed by insomnia this past week. Not sure what that's all about.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Kristine Warmecke has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  My DAD woke me from a deep sleep once, and then 2 other times. When she woke me from the deep sleep, I thought she needed to go outside. She let me put her leash on but wouldn't go out only to the fridge . So I got a piece of cheese thinking she wanted a treat, still wouldn't go out, she jumped and got a juice from counter and stood by me until I took and drank it. She got lots of praise and the cheese. lol. My G6 never alerted until I was back in bed, and it kept alarming.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Jeff Balbirnie has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  I reject being that obsessive/compulsive about testing period. That amount of anxiety is severely problematic and IMHO is diagnosable regardless of our good intent. Night time is for sleeping not testing!
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  lis be has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  having sudden high spikes at night and it wakes me up several times a night, but not regularly enough to change my basal. Can't figure out why. I have my alerts set at 70 for low and 160 for high. I cant wait until my insurance will cover a tandem IQ
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Thomas Cline has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  I said 7 but that's not entirely fair, since aging has caused me to get up one or more times during my sleep period to use the bathroom. The good news is that this allows me to use my CGM to check sugar levels in the night and correct as needed even before any alarms go off. On the other hand, my CGM does often disturb me even above and beyond this source of waking. Fortunately, I always drop back to sleep very rapidly. I've taken to putting my CGM receiver in a glove to muffle it a bit to avoid disturbing my wife's sleep, since she has much more difficulty going back to sleep.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Jeanne McMillan-Olson has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  Do you know what the lot number was so we can check to see if we have it too? Thanks
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Janis Senungetuk has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  Over the weekend had very high numbers close to midnight that continued into early morning even after replacing my infusion set and injecting a correction dose. Must have been my choice of a new recipe for dinner.
- 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Rae999333 has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In the past 7 days, how many nights was your sleep disrupted by device alerts, checking blood glucose levels, or treating a high or low?
  My sugars went nuts too afyer tge Covid vaccine...took at least a full week to normalize....but I agree, haven't gotten it yet and don't plan on it! Hang in there, you're not alone
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