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Untruthful & Hurtful Hospital Letters

Lucyr said:
You can’t have two low alarms on libre, that’s why I was pointing out the Mikey might want to consider changing the alarm based on bg in scenarios like the screenshot shown.
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Ok. I see. I use libre 3 but not with the libre app so I think that must be why I can have two alarms and other people can't.

My alarms are set up differently overnight because my needs are different.

I occasionally change my alarm settings but not often, when I change them I sometimes forget to put them back! If I know that my blood sugar levels are below my alarm level then I will be watching it (and doing finger prick tests where needed) until I go above the alarm level. If it's in the middle of the night and I think I might fall asleep then I will adjust my alarm setting but generally I just set a timer for 15 minutes after I've treated the hypo so I can't fall asleep!
 
Lucyr said:
You can’t have two low alarms on libre, that’s why I was pointing out the Mikey might want to consider changing the alarm based on bg in scenarios like the screenshot shown.

Alarms aren’t something you set once and never change, they’re something you change through the day whenever you need to. Eg before bed you might be in a habit of widening them so that you aren’t woken unnecessarily, before exercise you might increase it for earlier warning, when flat around the alarm level you’d put it down, just done a whacking big correction you’d put it as high as it goes.

If you just set your libre alarm and never change it you’re probably not getting the most from it.
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Yes I seem to remember Libre needs to go back up through the alarm level in order to re-activate it.

Some other sensors (eg Dex) have a sort of ‘alarm snooze’ where the alarm will remind you again after a settable number of minutes.

I like your idea of updating and tweaking single-alarm settings during the course of the day. I’ve generally been of the mind to tweak for weeks or months at a time. But more frequent tweaks could certainly have a role.
 
I run Glucodatahandler on my phone as well as Libre, mostly to push the Libre data onto my watch, but it also has the benefit of customisable alarms.
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
I like your idea of updating and tweaking single-alarm settings during the course of the day.
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I thought this was something everyone did to be honest! I’ve just put my low alarm up as high as it goes (5.6) as I’ve been over 15 since after breakfast and got a bit grumpy and increased my corrections.

Don’t want waking up under 5.6 at night though so I’ll move it down before bed. Then I’m doing a presentation tomorrow so I’ll stick it back up again before that, make sure I keep things stable in advance, then back down just before it, avoid distractions.
 
Standup said:
There's a thread somewhere where someone from Abbot asked for feedback on the App and I think multiple alarms or alarms that repeat if still low/high were quite high on the wish list.
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Juggluco's alarms do that (so if you're going low you don't just get one alarm). I'm not sure of the details of what it does (and I don't think it's configurable). (It may be that Xdrip+ has more configurable options for this.)
 
Dexcom g6 repeat alerts, though i'm 100% convinced it does it reliably
 
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