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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris24Main" data-source="post: 2737299" data-attributes="member: 585131">As long as you are not on any medication that will lower blood glucose (or have a history of hypos), you are in no more risk of low blood glucose events than the general public - the risk involving sleep interruption is significantly more than the risk of the low level alarm telling you anything that you actually need to do anything about.Primarily, the low level alarm is for type 1 diabetics who are at that level - and heading down fast (it's the direction of the arrow as much as the number, at least it was for me when I was managing type 1) - in other words, for anyone with a functioning pancreas and not on anything designed to lower blood glucose, your CGM is for information only. Being around 3.5 is not anything to worry about, certainly not anything you should wake yourself up about. Similarly - a Type 1 critically needs to know that the CGM is in range all the time. As a type 2 it's a convenience - so you can safely turn off those alarms.</blockquote>

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