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Omnipod new sensor = sleepless night

ArtemisBow

ArtemisBow

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Just asking if there is anything I could have done differently here.

I am on Omnipod 5 with Libre 2+ for about 6 months. Prior to that I was on Libre and Dash for many years. I have often found when I put a new Libre sensor on it reads low for the first 24 hours or so, then beds in and is ok.

Last night my Libre2+ sensor went wrong a few days early so I changed it. After the warm up it was showing as 4.5 but a fingerprick was 7.7. I assumed this one would need a bit of time and went to bed.

Unfortunately my BG came down a bit and the sensor believed I was going hypo so started alarming. I switched off the alarms on the handset but the pod itself was issuing the urgent alarm - fingerprick was always 6+. I couldn’t sleep due to the constant beeping so I ended up eating to bring my BG up.

Now this morning I feel rubbish because I have not slept half the night for beeping and then had high BG for the rest of the night. Sensor is now 1 point lower than blood but I can live with that.

I take it there is no way to temporarily snooze alarms if you know them to be false? Should I just never change sensors in the evening? Does Manual mode ignore the sensor input and not beep? Any suggestions welcome.
 
ArtemisBow said:
Just asking if there is anything I could have done differently here.

I am on Omnipod 5 with Libre 2+ for about 6 months. Prior to that I was on Libre and Dash for many years. I have often found when I put a new Libre sensor on it reads low for the first 24 hours or so, then beds in and is ok.

Last night my Libre2+ sensor went wrong a few days early so I changed it. After the warm up it was showing as 4.5 but a fingerprick was 7.7. I assumed this one would need a bit of time and went to bed.

Unfortunately my BG came down a bit and the sensor believed I was going hypo so started alarming. I switched off the alarms on the handset but the pod itself was issuing the urgent alarm - fingerprick was always 6+. I couldn’t sleep due to the constant beeping so I ended up eating to bring my BG up.

Now this morning I feel rubbish because I have not slept half the night for beeping and then had high BG for the rest of the night. Sensor is now 1 point lower than blood but I can live with that.

I take it there is no way to temporarily snooze alarms if you know them to be false? Should I just never change sensors in the evening? Does Manual mode ignore the sensor input and not beep? Any suggestions welcome.
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Good morning I am an Omnipod 5 and Libre 2+ user. I empathise with your sleepless night. I have experienced similar issues and contacted Omnipod. I was told that although you can turn alarms off they will still go off if your sensor and pdm senses you are low. They said it was a safety measure !!!
I am sorry this is not much help to you
 
Thanks for responding. I do understand they want it to be safe, but without the ability to calibrate the sensor it’s just frustrating!
 
I have the same issue for at least 48 hours every sensor change. It’s so frustrating. I input the actual blood glucose level so when I bolus it’s an accurate measure however low alarms all night drive me crazy I self funded the Dexcom G6 for a year and it was just so much better Clinic refused to consider funding G6 so stuck with the L2+ which also loses connection from Omnipod 5 often leading to no alarms when not connected. As I say frustrating ! Am grateful to have the tech but it needs to be fit for purpose.
 
I turn the alarms off at night and just let the omnipod do its thing, which it's pretty good at. It has a default beep at 2.9 so I can sleep confident that I'll be alerted before anything too untoward.
 
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