I mean I'd far rather have the pump than not, also a t1d.

I dont bother wearing it at night though. All my blood sugar does is decline overnight, and the pump isn't the signal that things are going awry, that's the GCM. The GCM will still signal the pump, my phone and my watch to wake me if I need to eat carbs (vanishingly rare) and the pump never changes my blood sugar overnight anyway as far as I can tell.

So I disconnect it, put it back on in the day so I can manage things while I eat food.

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asyx 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You don’t have dawn syndrome? Mine shoots up to 200 in the morning without food. If I don’t eat breakfast I take 5 units fast acting in the morning to keep the levels down.

I just don’t see pens as so much of a hassle that I’d give up the control of a pen for the convenience of a pump.

	▲	spacedcowboy 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		nope, just when i eat food. This morning i ate breakfast at 11:00, pretty much flat until then, mild slope upwards from 8am to 9am, but it only went from 6.2 to 6.7 then stabilised

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bluesounddirect 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For my wife, when on lantus and novolog ( no pump ) the overnights were always high blood sugars . The pumps definitely help , but in retrospect she also stopped eating gluten around the same time. The no gluten diet helped a lot .

Side bar having been around the dexcom for 10 years now . The old/original audible alarms were easy to understand. Low crescendo for going low , low repeats for low alarm and the reverse for high events. With the x2 and g6 i literally have no idea what the beeps mean anymore. This alarm fatigue is bad and i wonder if this contributes to the authors issue too. Was there some warning she missed?