I need some advice please. Some ideas for what to do at night when I know the sensor is failing to detect any BG at all, so it’s constantly giving me false low alarms, beeping and waking up my wife, keeping me from getting anything close to a decent sleep.
Should I just turn off Control IQ? That wouldn’t stop the sensor from working incorrectly and giving me false alarms would it?
Obviously, stopping the sensor means I’d need to insert a completely new one the next morning.
I just started a new one at six this evening, because the last one crapped out before its ten-day cycle ended. It just completely stopped detecting any BG at all. Four times yesterday alone! Each time, I calibrated it from a finger stick. It restarted, most of the time, and less than an hour later, the readings plummeted from 200+ to less than 80 in only three successive measurements! Each finger stick reported BG >200, while the sensor said <80!
Now, by 10:00 pm the night I started a new one, four hours after starting it, the new one is crapping out the same way!
I’ll go online tomorrow and report it and I’ll get a new one, but this kind of sensor failure or some other failure is happening to me in almost half of my current three month batch!
Are any of you also experiencing what appears to you to be a frequent deterioration of overall product quality? Not just one off problems here and there, but almost half the time in a 90 day batch something goes wrong? That’s what’s happening to me, IMO. I really think Dexcom has lost its ability to make top quality sensors.
And the most frustrating infuriating about it is that I just don’t trust my health, my life, to Dexcom sensors any longer and I simply don’t know what to do except go back to finger sticks, which for me is 6-8 a day on the average, given my fluctuating sugars.
Sorry for venting, but I just can’t cope any longer with the lousy product quality I think I’m getting on a regular basis and I need to find someone who cares and who can give me some suggestions for what to do.