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

[jamielgurganus at gmail.com]

Rick,

     I see your point and guess I misunderstood Paul's question about getting an alarm.  Yes, you do get the "signal loss" alarm when the sensor is being finicky or has failed.  Did it do this for the G5 though?  It has been so long since I used the G5.

					Jamie


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From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Rick Mladek via Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 7:12 AM
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Cc: Rick Mladek <hmladek at neo.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] Dexcom G5, Sensor glucose is tripple question mark

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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