It pains me to vent about the amazing Dexcom, but I have a frustration. It’s the must-always-be-turned-on <55 alarm that Dexcom has built in.<\/p>\n
For starters, I love Dexcom. I hate life without Dexcom. When I’ve run out of sensors, as rare as it is, I don’t really know what to do. So all kudos to Dexcom for making my life so much better.<\/p>\n
But Dexcom has an alarm that must always be active (no option to turn it off), which sounds whenever it gets a reading that your blood sugar is below 55. Now in theory that’s a reasonable thing to do; people should know when their blood sugar is below 55. But often when I sleep, Dexcom\u00a0gets these\u00a0spotty readings. Sometimes it gets one quick data point that I’m at 35 when I’m really at 220. Sometimes it thinks I’m at 40 when I’m really at 100. It only happens when I sleep, but it happens once or twice a week.<\/p>\n
Now this actually doesn’t impact me much, as I sleep through anything, even Dexcom telling me I’m dying.\u00a0 But for my partner it’s a serious issue, because it wakes her up every time. Now if this only happened when I was really at 45, that would be great. She would wake up, then wake me up, I would get some juice, and it would be a powerful feature.<\/p>\n
As it is, it wakes her up a couple times a week, with the bad news that I’m below 55 when I’m actually at 150. At first it was ok, but it’s happened so much that my girlfriend and my favorite medical device are having a hard time getting along. I think I will just leave Dexcom in another room at night, where it will leave us in peace.<\/p>\n
So Dexcom engineers… if you’re out there… any chance you could make it possible for us to turn off that <55 alarm? We're big kids, I think we can handle the choice, at least until you get rid of the random LOW readings when I'm sleeping.<\/p>\n
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