Ok I’ll start by apologising for this rant I’m about to go in but it’s driving me insane and just wondering if I’m the only one and it’s more of a personal annoyance….
Does anyone else get annoyed / frustrated / fed up of the amount of alarms that go off on the Tandem T-Slim?
I *know* the alarms are there to protect and alert us to low or high BG’s but they seem to be such a nuisance - for example if my blood sugar goes high, I’ll get an alert on my pump and for reference, mine is clipped to the front of my bra and on vibrate mode (instead of the soft tone sound so that no one else can hear it) So I get the alert and maybe do a correction and wait for for BG’s to come down….. but then I’ll get another alert (vibrate, vibrate) so say my BG’s are high (yes, I know that I’ve just done a correction) and then I’ll get numerous other alerts (vibrate, vibrate, flipping vibrate!) that are ‘pointless’ because they are alerting me to something I can’t do anything about.
I wish Tandem would do a ‘snooze’ button so that you could make the pump aware that yes you’ve seen the alert but it would let you to not get one for another period of time (while you’re waiting for the BG to come down)
I also get an alert (usually in the mornings if my BG was high before bed) to say something along the lines of ‘your BG was high 8/9 hours ago’ - which seems an utterly useless alert no?!
I’ve changed my alert sound to the soft tone now so see if that helps instead of the very intrusive vibrating but I can’t be the only one that doesn’t like the vibrate/sounds and finds them intrusive. It really does affect me :-(
I use the Tandem Tslim with the Dexcom G6 and apart from that I find they work well, but this is getting to the point I’m thinking of changing over to a different pump!
Does anyone else get annoyed / frustrated / fed up of the amount of alarms that go off on the Tandem T-Slim?
I *know* the alarms are there to protect and alert us to low or high BG’s but they seem to be such a nuisance - for example if my blood sugar goes high, I’ll get an alert on my pump and for reference, mine is clipped to the front of my bra and on vibrate mode (instead of the soft tone sound so that no one else can hear it) So I get the alert and maybe do a correction and wait for for BG’s to come down….. but then I’ll get another alert (vibrate, vibrate) so say my BG’s are high (yes, I know that I’ve just done a correction) and then I’ll get numerous other alerts (vibrate, vibrate, flipping vibrate!) that are ‘pointless’ because they are alerting me to something I can’t do anything about.
I wish Tandem would do a ‘snooze’ button so that you could make the pump aware that yes you’ve seen the alert but it would let you to not get one for another period of time (while you’re waiting for the BG to come down)
I also get an alert (usually in the mornings if my BG was high before bed) to say something along the lines of ‘your BG was high 8/9 hours ago’ - which seems an utterly useless alert no?!
I’ve changed my alert sound to the soft tone now so see if that helps instead of the very intrusive vibrating but I can’t be the only one that doesn’t like the vibrate/sounds and finds them intrusive. It really does affect me :-(
I use the Tandem Tslim with the Dexcom G6 and apart from that I find they work well, but this is getting to the point I’m thinking of changing over to a different pump!
