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

[Rick Mladek]

Hi,

I do receive a sensor failure through my I-phone. It simply gives the alarm and the phone does read the sensor has failed and it is either attempting to reconnect and wait up to 3-hours or possibly 30-minutes, I do not recall. That or to replace the failed sensor. If I am misunderstanding this thread, I appologize...


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From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jamie Gurganus via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 7:56 AM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Jamie Gurganus <jamielgurganus at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] Dexcom G5, Sensor glucose is tripple question mark

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
iPhone. iTypos. iApologize

> 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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