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<blockquote data-quote="AmandaD" data-source="post: 1427530" data-attributes="member: 199116"><p>hiya [USER=30007]@tim2000s[/USER] yeah I know that it just jumped the gun one too many times for me. It was actually my consultant that suggested switching it off and turning the other alarms on. He figured I was dipping the pump was suspending then my blood sugar was climbing as a result of the suspend, he felt that I'd dip and come back up on my own and he was right. He said the other alarms would wake me anyway if I went too low and after I switched it off I looked back at my cgm reading and if I did go low it was never lower than 3.9 and it would rise soon after anyway. I have shocking dawn phenomenon anyway so the rise as a result of the suspend was just too much on top of the DP rise. I now hover between 4.4 and 5.6 all night.</p><p>[USER=32394]@catapillar[/USER] the enlite will only allow you to recalibrate twice before it says change sensor. I'd ring medtronic and get replacement sensors you might have a faulty batch. I need someone to remove the needle after I insert otherwise I just pull the whole thing off I can't get it out one handed. I insert mine, cover the top of it with the tape provided, leave it sitting there twenty mins or so until the transmitter is charged. Attach transmitter and cover that again with the tape provided then cover the whole lot with IV3000 hand clear dressing. I can get 6 days out of my sensor on my arm, abdomen 2 max if I'm lucky. I clip my pump to the top of my pjs so its near my arm when I'm asleep and I don't get any of the lost sensor errors anymore. I've also read something about compression lows if you are lying on the sensor but I know nothing about them.I've been using the enlite sensor now 6 years and got the new one at my last pump upgrade.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AmandaD, post: 1427530, member: 199116"] hiya [USER=30007]@tim2000s[/USER] yeah I know that it just jumped the gun one too many times for me. It was actually my consultant that suggested switching it off and turning the other alarms on. He figured I was dipping the pump was suspending then my blood sugar was climbing as a result of the suspend, he felt that I'd dip and come back up on my own and he was right. He said the other alarms would wake me anyway if I went too low and after I switched it off I looked back at my cgm reading and if I did go low it was never lower than 3.9 and it would rise soon after anyway. I have shocking dawn phenomenon anyway so the rise as a result of the suspend was just too much on top of the DP rise. I now hover between 4.4 and 5.6 all night. [USER=32394]@catapillar[/USER] the enlite will only allow you to recalibrate twice before it says change sensor. I'd ring medtronic and get replacement sensors you might have a faulty batch. I need someone to remove the needle after I insert otherwise I just pull the whole thing off I can't get it out one handed. I insert mine, cover the top of it with the tape provided, leave it sitting there twenty mins or so until the transmitter is charged. Attach transmitter and cover that again with the tape provided then cover the whole lot with IV3000 hand clear dressing. I can get 6 days out of my sensor on my arm, abdomen 2 max if I'm lucky. I clip my pump to the top of my pjs so its near my arm when I'm asleep and I don't get any of the lost sensor errors anymore. I've also read something about compression lows if you are lying on the sensor but I know nothing about them.I've been using the enlite sensor now 6 years and got the new one at my last pump upgrade. [/QUOTE]
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