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- 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  Wanacure 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?
  By not placing my Dexcom too far to either side of belly avoids those annoying “compression” low alerts. I tend to sleep on my left or right side, not on my back. And now before adding food or insulin responding to CGM alert, I doublecheck with my meter. I’m on multiple injections, not a pump.
- 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  Brad Larson 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?
  1-2 times per week, the alarm goes off for "loss of signal." 1-2 times per week for highs or lows.
- 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  Bea Anderson likes your comment at
  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?
  Even if I don’t have alarms in the middle of the night, I still wake up at least once or twice every night to look at my BG on my smart watch out of fear that I’ve missed an alarm. I am thankful I can just look at my watch and not have to do middle of the night finger sticks anymore.
- 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  Bea Anderson 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?
  4 nights disrupted. Schedule and holiday eating still in play makes for later evening eating that makes corrections come at night. Since I generally eat keto, I’ve become a bad guesser at many foods. My nighttime disruptions are usually less. 1 or 2 times a week, rarely none.
- 8 months, 1 week ago
  
  Liz Avery 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 4. Medtronic 770g and CGM. I get a BG required notice 4-5 nights/ week, sometimes I can ignore it, sometime it repeats, then I get up and check. I want to stay in auto mode so I get up. usually I have to add a small amount of insulin .
- 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  RegMunro 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?
  Wow I thought i was out of pattern badly, but sorry to see so many wake so often. This past week’s four was a bit higher than usual for me
- 9 months ago
  
  ChrisW has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  A1C is an indicator of an indicator of blood glucose over time. Just because the only tool doctors have is a sledge hammer doesn't mean they should use it every time we patients have a screw loose. I look forward to the day when CGM reports completely replace A1C tests for type 1 diabetics.
- 9 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  T1D4LongTime has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  A1C is just an average over 90 days, so it is NOT an accurate way to measure BG control. However, due to inaccuracies in CGM readings, Time in Range (TIR), Standard Deviation (SD) needs to be combined with A1C (since its not derived from CGM technology) to determine accurate measure of control.
- 9 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Kelli Christiansen has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  I also like to know time in range
- 9 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  beth nelson has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  Because I use a closed loop pump system with CGM, I depend more on the "Time in Range" than A1c. A1cs are averages and if I have a lot of lows and highs, the A1c result is not a measure of control.
- 9 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Mike Plante has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  A1C is nice and all, but TIR is much more valuable to me.
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Elizabeth T. has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  TIR seems to be more useful
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Sharon Gerdik has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  Reply to Marsha Miller; My last 3 Endo’s in 3 different states have always ordered Fructosamine Levels when seeing that my A1C didn’t jive with my pump data and sensor info. Fructosamine just measures a 2 week analysis vs 90 days for A1C. I’ve been told I have a certain protein attached to my blood that affects the 90 day test. The 2 week test has always been more accurate for me.
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Nicholas Argento has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  I said not at all but that is because I use CGM full time and use the average BG on CGM, which is used to generate the GMI (glucose management indicator) as a better indicator.
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Steven Gill has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  The a1C is part of it. Time in range, deviation, and yeah elimination of hypoglycemia.
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  George Lovelace has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  I'm on Dexcom with Tandem CIQ and I've about eliminated all Hypos so my latest A1c of 5.4 seems like a Cure to me. Just working on SD and TIR now.
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Marsha Miller has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  😮 That would not be achievable for me. Too many hypos. Hypos kill brain cells.
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Marsha Miller has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  I have never heard of fructosamine. What is that?
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Sharon Gerdik has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  My A1C is never accurate. For over 20 years I’ve been geting a Fructosamine drawn as well and my Endo says that is much more accurate based on my BS readings. That seems to correlate better with my TIR.
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Lenora Ventura has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  Being a T1D for almost 38 years, the A1C was the gold standard until TIR & AGP came on the scene. Interestingly enough, my A1C brings with it constant dissatisfaction & unspoken guilt as opposed to my TIR. I know how hard I work and am very proud of the high 85% I average per 10 day Dexcom session. No complications so I guess I am doing pretty good despite a 6.8 average A1C
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  lis be has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  so many doctors need re-training!
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  lis be likes your comment at
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  A little useful - mostly because doctors seem to view it as the holy grail, at least in my experience. However, I feel that CGM data (time in range, standard deviation, and average glucose) make A1C an obsolete measurement. If you’re using a CGM, A1C isn’t going to tell you anything you don’t already know.
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  sdimond has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  Time in range based on a range of 70 to 180 is worthless as it is based on the assumption that an A1C of 7.0 is "good control." Doctors should be honest with their patients and encourage them to achieve an A1C under 5.0 and yes, that is achievable without hypos.
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Ernie Richmann has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  If your bg is 0, you are likely dead. I get it- it is an average.
- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Ernie Richmann has commented in the same post you commented in :
  How useful is the A1c measurement to you as a tool for assessing your T1D management and making changes to your routine?
  A1C along with time in range are very usefull.
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