[Diabetes-Talk] Dexcom G5, Sensor glucose is tripple question mark

[Jamie Gurganus]

Good morning Paul or whatever time it is where you are! Unfortunately, the triple ?  Or the sensor failure notification in the G6 do not have a warning. They just pop up and don’t go away until the system finds the readings again through the sensor. It is definitely frustrating to say the least.

     

Jamie Gurganus
Phone: 515-291-8451
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> On Jan 6, 2021, at 4:56 AM, Paul Magill via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A query about the tripple question mark reading if I may.
> 
> I don't know why there is no alert for this.  For me, the main benefit of
> having the system, is that, if I go too low or too high through the night
> the alerts wake me and I can deal with it.  Since having the Dexcom, I have
> not needed, "rescueing",  from a hypo!
> 
> A couple of the sensors I have used, have seemed a bit dodgey, and the
> current one failed through the night. When I woke in the morning, I had the
> tripple question mark result, and a finger prick showed 270!
> 
> Ok, a few units of NovaRapid insulin got that under control, but what if I
> had gone too low  as I occasionally did before Dexcom, I might have been in
> real trouble!
> 
> If there were an alert for the tripple question mark, as there is for sensor
> out of range, say for instance, after 20 minutes of the tripple question
> mark, an alert would sound and wake me, I could do a finger prick just to be
> on the safe side, and deal with any high or low that may have been obscured.
> 
> Is there such an alert on the G6?  that I may change to, once our government
> approves it for our equivalent to the U S medicare?
> 
> With appreciation,
> Paul in Australia.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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