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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2762227" data-attributes="member: 372717">T1 for 55 years here, so I've seen a wide range of technology.  (Got my first glucometer in my twenties.)Have you had any Los where you needed outside assistance [USER=598366]@AdamMo95[/USER] ?Personally,  when I was on MDI I did get some ambulance inducing lows, mainly when I was keeping my bgs too low. For me, pre cgm, I found that an hba1c much less than 7% or 50mmol/mol resulted in loss of hypo awareness and some dangerous hypos.  So I did find it scary.With the advent of cgms I regained hypo awareness by aiming to keep my bg above 6 for a while,  but I still got too many (in the opinion of my endocrinologist) hypos, and she put me on a pump.  I've been on a pump for just over a year and it has made life easier for me, far fewer hypos and less stress, but I second [USER=53162]@Juicyj[/USER] 's suggestion that you try for a TIR of 70% rather than being in the green range 100% of the time. (I was actually first offered a pump 4 years ago and just wish I'd said yes then.)In my experience cgms are slow to recover from hypos, so I do tend to use a meter if I'm seriously low, just because I can tell much more quickly that my bg is going up and so don't panic.  Also, in my personal experience,  a LO reading on a cgm isn't always even a hypo reading on a glucometer, so it's well worth checking with a meter.Good luck</blockquote>

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