I will appreciate ‘on point’ and ‘non judgmental’ responses to this:
I’m not married or in a long-term relationship. I’m dating.
I have ‘slept over’ with someone I am seeing, and it bothers me that some of the ‘notifications’ – even the ones that are not alarms, just the quiet notification that come in with the same sounds of an incoming email – are noticed and can wake the other person in the bed.
It got me thinking: Is there any way to ONLY send alerts and signals to the ‘wearer’ so that they are less likely to be noticed by the other person?
One thing I thought is putting my iWatch on my ankle (wearing one to bed is not so comfortable), but I will need to buy a bigger watch band to accomplish this.
Are there any other suggestions? (again - on point, supportive, and ‘no judgment’ please.
I use a G4 with a dexcom receiver. I also share it to my iphone and Iwatch which works great.
At night the phone and the watch are put in do not disturb mode and I let the Dexcom receiver hang out near the bed. My experience is that any alert that will wake me up will also wake my spouse up. I’ve tried every style of alert including vibrate. You might get lucky if your a light sleeper and your partner is a deep sleeper but don’t count on it. We’ve settled on this as the least annoying setup: My receiver is set to the Hypo Repeat profile which is the loudest and I keep the receiver within very easy reach as I sleep. This way I hear it the first time it goes off and I can grab it immediately. I also raise the high alert level from my daytime normal of 150 to 200. This gives me a wider latitude at night and so fewer alerts. Short of some kind of cochlear implant so that only I could hear the alerts I don’t see this getting much better.
I think that I will try using the receiver again at night. I tried it initially when I was in Arizona this winter, but since I am home all day, it drove me crazy because I would hear alerts from both devices. In Minnesota my bedroom is upstairs so maybe the receiver will be out of range all day.
Whatever. I have not figured out a sound profile that works for the phone at night. The audible alerts are incredibly loud and there is no way that I will subject my husband to that. The vibration on the phone is not sufficient to wake me up although the vibration on the Dex receiver does. Last night I actually tried a set of ear buds but that is not a sustainable solution. I already have a pump with tubing and my phone attached to a charger. Ear phones definitely added too much tangle-potential.
I had the same issue with my significant other. I found that if I put the Dexcom on vibrate, and stuff it into my pillow case, I sense the alerts but she does not.
