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<blockquote data-quote="Hoping4Cure" data-source="post: 2108070" data-attributes="member: 393050"><p>Practical suggestion: use bluetooth earbuds for private beeps.</p><p></p><p>Better suggestion: ditch your mate. He's very low-quality. This is life and death stuff and if he doesn't take that seriously, ditch him. I've dumped more than my share of girlfriends over the years for not taking my type 1 seriously. Most people are too selfish or self-absorbed to think of someone else's life as being more important than their convenience.</p><p></p><p>Still, you should be in charge of your digital devices, not their slave. If a beep wakes you up then it needn't wake anyone else up (via headphones, and for the fact that you can self-administer glucose pills or smarties by yourself, on your night table).</p><p></p><p>Couple other bits of advice: I've struggled with hypo unawareness before and it's largely related to poor glucose control, excessive hypo frequency. Over time your CGM will make those issues obvious. The clear solution to that is improving your sugars. That said, even if your partner's "right" in the sense that you can indeed largely keep t1d in check via diet (low carbing = law of small numbers = less sugar variance = less insulin on board = lower hypo frequency = lower hypo severity), your partner is still trash for not supporting you. Your silence at multiple people's suggestions to ditch a man who's oblivious and uncaring of whether you die in your sleep also betrays some troubling aspects that you are probably already aware of. Such a vain man is, I would guess, also more likely to be abusive in some way (maybe not physically but telling you your CGM beeps bothers him is definitely abusive and you should run for the hills). My sister stayed with an abusive man over our entire family's objections and he beat her and other members of my family (not to mention strangers, ending up in jail, etc). Someone who doesn't take your diabetes seriously is total trash, get rid of him. These kinds of posts make me angry, there is a lot of implicit suffering or abuse in them. If you have Type 1 and had to choose between a CGM and a partner who just doesn't care, you might as well live on your own and get those life-saving beeps. </p><p></p><p>But, if that's too hard, buy a 15 dollar pair of bluetooth earbuds and use that to sync up. My wife uses earbuds to mask my snoring, they are fairly comfortable these days. If you really want to avoid hypos, that is an entire topic in and of itself, but this forum is typically wishy washy about its advice in that regard (no offense). I've found reading these types of stories about people living with type 1 struggling with hypos but still eating 150g of carbs a day to be tilting at windmills. The solution is right there. It's called the Diabetes Solution by Dr Bernstein. Buy that book. The second you ditch the guy who doesn't care if you live or die during your sleep. I've woken up several times in the hospital due to hypo unawareness and lives with constant terror of sudden death for years, and even with a partner watching over me (no CGM yet - soon), it was a frequent problem until I went low-carb. Sure I still get hypos once in a while, but you can actually get near-perfect blood sugars most of the time even without a CGM via avoiding carbs entirely. It's called the flat-liners club. Look it up. But getting a CGM is a great move, I'm getting one next week. Anyway, ditch the jerk.</p><p></p><p>"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" -Maya Angelou.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hoping4Cure, post: 2108070, member: 393050"] Practical suggestion: use bluetooth earbuds for private beeps. Better suggestion: ditch your mate. He's very low-quality. This is life and death stuff and if he doesn't take that seriously, ditch him. I've dumped more than my share of girlfriends over the years for not taking my type 1 seriously. Most people are too selfish or self-absorbed to think of someone else's life as being more important than their convenience. Still, you should be in charge of your digital devices, not their slave. If a beep wakes you up then it needn't wake anyone else up (via headphones, and for the fact that you can self-administer glucose pills or smarties by yourself, on your night table). Couple other bits of advice: I've struggled with hypo unawareness before and it's largely related to poor glucose control, excessive hypo frequency. Over time your CGM will make those issues obvious. The clear solution to that is improving your sugars. That said, even if your partner's "right" in the sense that you can indeed largely keep t1d in check via diet (low carbing = law of small numbers = less sugar variance = less insulin on board = lower hypo frequency = lower hypo severity), your partner is still trash for not supporting you. Your silence at multiple people's suggestions to ditch a man who's oblivious and uncaring of whether you die in your sleep also betrays some troubling aspects that you are probably already aware of. Such a vain man is, I would guess, also more likely to be abusive in some way (maybe not physically but telling you your CGM beeps bothers him is definitely abusive and you should run for the hills). My sister stayed with an abusive man over our entire family's objections and he beat her and other members of my family (not to mention strangers, ending up in jail, etc). Someone who doesn't take your diabetes seriously is total trash, get rid of him. These kinds of posts make me angry, there is a lot of implicit suffering or abuse in them. If you have Type 1 and had to choose between a CGM and a partner who just doesn't care, you might as well live on your own and get those life-saving beeps. But, if that's too hard, buy a 15 dollar pair of bluetooth earbuds and use that to sync up. My wife uses earbuds to mask my snoring, they are fairly comfortable these days. If you really want to avoid hypos, that is an entire topic in and of itself, but this forum is typically wishy washy about its advice in that regard (no offense). I've found reading these types of stories about people living with type 1 struggling with hypos but still eating 150g of carbs a day to be tilting at windmills. The solution is right there. It's called the Diabetes Solution by Dr Bernstein. Buy that book. The second you ditch the guy who doesn't care if you live or die during your sleep. I've woken up several times in the hospital due to hypo unawareness and lives with constant terror of sudden death for years, and even with a partner watching over me (no CGM yet - soon), it was a frequent problem until I went low-carb. Sure I still get hypos once in a while, but you can actually get near-perfect blood sugars most of the time even without a CGM via avoiding carbs entirely. It's called the flat-liners club. Look it up. But getting a CGM is a great move, I'm getting one next week. Anyway, ditch the jerk. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" -Maya Angelou. [/QUOTE]
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