Slammed.

So this was last night:  Went to bed after a little bit of a spike, bolused it down conservatively because I was going to bed, but then woke up at 4 am and saw a steady, red line on my Dexcom graph, showing that I was not only in the blood sugar trenches, but had been there for a while.The problem is, it wasn't the low alarm on the Dexcom that roused me from sleep.  It was the sound of my daughter yelling, "MOMMY AND DADDY!!!" through the baby monitor (which I will use until she's at least ten thousand years old) that vaulted me from the bed.  This is a problem, and one I've always had with the Dexcom alarms.  They are great - and plenty loud - when I'm awake and driving, or playing in the garden, or on run.  I have no trouble responding to them when I'm wide awake and tuned in.  But when I'm asleep, and low, those alarms rattle on without a response from me.  And that unnerves the eff out of me, because nighttime lows are what I want the Dexcom protecting me from the most.  I've done the Dexcom-in-a-glass routine, and I'll revisit that strategy again tonight (I took a break from it after switching to the G4, as the alarms were notably louder than the Seven Plus), but these kinds of lows make me nervous.  I don't respond to them as well as I used to - last night's low made me feel like every move my body was making was through a pool of thick, overcooked oatmeal, putting a definitive drag on my muscles and my mind.  ...
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