Morning all, 5.5 and 5.8 here. I’ve got a trial of the Dexcom One+ to see if I could cope with it, and generally using my phone and not a reader, so I overlapped it with my Libre for a day so I could get confidence in it before I fly solo.
So far so good, I managed the set up, which was a good start, and the readings are very close to the Libre in the mid range area, but higher st the top and lower at the bottom, and the algorithm seems more laggy, maybe it’ll improve.
One thing I need help with, though, There are warnings on all the alarms, 'You will not hear the alarms if your phone is set to silent'. So I set my phone to silent, because I wasn’t up for a disturbed night to start with, and was surprised to be rudely awakened by the signal loss alarm at 1am. unfortunately I’d got it set to one of the more strident tones, on the grounds that I’d need to hear it if I’d gone too far from my phone. So it blasted me out of bed, and woke OH as well! So what have I done wrong, to be getting alarms when my phone is on silent? (and I checked the setting, I had actually done it, and I didn’t get notifications from anything else). I can see that it’s very useful for it to override the silent setting, but why is it telling me it won’t?
I unset the signal loss alarm and went back to sleep. But later on i the night I got the low glucose alert, fair enough, I had hit 4.5, which is what I'd set it to, although my Libre was showing 5 and I didn’t feel hypo. I had a precautionary jellybaby, but the lag on the Dexcom meant that the low alarm went off twice more, just as I was going back to sleep. This is different from the Libre, on that, once the low alert has gone off, it doesn’t go off again until you’ve got above the target, which can be annoying on a walk, so I can see why the Dec does that, but it’s annoying at night, when you’re confident you’ve warded off a hypo, and you want to get back to sleep.
OK, rant over, So far, I prefer the Libre, it’s what I’m used to, and the reader is more convenient than having to lug my phone everywhere (I’m not a person who is welded to my smartphone) but so far, I think I could live with the Dexcom if I had to.