Hi Sean! Try to set your alarm in your cellphone or watch, whichever works for you. Before, I did it the old school way by posting reminder notes in my bag, at my office, fridge, bathroom, etc…now I’m saving trees :).
In the past, I was sort of ambivalent about my BG, and would just fix it when it was out of whack. A few years ago, I got more active and, all of a sudden, had to make my BG be in line at certain times of the day and be “ready for action” as it were. This was good, in that I needed to work out for a lot of reasons, not perhaps all diabetes related, but it also was very challenging. If you aren’t sure what your BG is, you should just try to guess what it is and see how close you are? IF you are always correct, or maybe +/- 15 points (??) perhaps less testing will be ok. For me, the big thing about testing a lot and also about having a CGM were to see how much it moves around, even when it’s relatively stable (cf FLATLINER’S CLUB for bunches of examples of stable BG, rollercoaster, Rocky Mountains, etc.). When you are going to eat, 115 may be ok but if your meter’s off 10% and it’s really 120 and is going up, it can lead to a mystery high later that makes you wonder what’s up. The way to figure out those sorts of puzzles is to obtain more data through more testing. It turns BG testing into more of a “how close am I?” exercise and less like a slot machine?
Thats currently what I have going; my phone alerting me every two hours. Though there are still days where I simply ignore the thing. Testing that much gets old quick, but I do feel a whole lot better when I do. Thank you for the reply!.