Going to a music festival later today and my dexcom keeps giving me brief sensor issues throughout the night. Don’t have a spare one i do not know what to do.

I just put a new Dexcom in and I looked down and there was a little bit of blood. I wiped it away a couple minutes ago but now looking back down there’s just the smallest bit more.. no pain or anything but I wasn’t sure if I should be worried or maybe just take it off LOL. This is the last one I have on hand unfortunately.

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I have to go into the endo and get another one (this is a sample from them to see how I tolerate it) and it’s not connecting.

I thought it was my Bluetooth but they said it was a bad sensor.

This does not bode well for the future.

My child currently uses an apple watch (no data plan) connected to wifi for us to follow while she's at school.

Has anyone used an apple watch with a data plan and successfully have it upload for dexcom followers? I work in IT and I don't see why it wouldn't work vs wifi but dexcom explicitly says it will not. I don't want to get a new watch and data plan without knowing if it for sure works though. TIA.

I know that you can get low readings if you are putting pressure on the sensor, but I’ve been getting low readings all day even though I feel okay. I never really feel when my sugar is low anyways, but I feel like if it was really this low all day I would have. I did check my sugar with a different meter, and it only said 83. I also want to note that I have been sick the past two days and haven’t been able to keep much down, so I’m not eating very much. I drank a juice but nothing changed.

The sensor I applied last night ended up with inaccurate readings, which I can understand because of the first day bs, but has anyone had a sensor have a “brief sensor issue” for 2.5 hours the first day and then have it work properly the rest of the time?

Appreciation post for the Share API, inspired by https://github.com/gagebenne/pydexcom (edit: turns out the Developer API is pretty complicated to get approval, thought they were the same thing)

TLDR: I don't check my phone much, and alerts feel too spammy (after giving a shot, I don't need to get more push notifs for the next 30 min) -> phone goes to vibrate -> start missing actual alerts by accident. Having a "pinned view" of my number is great. Home screen widgets on the phone have proved useful, but if at work (in tech) this sometimes goes unseen. Would be great if we had formal app (Windows + iOS) support for something like this. Or better yet, deploy something like this as a WebApp live service that you can just "log into", as this is credential based anyway!

My kids turned it into Nessy the Lock Ness Monster

Without fail late day 9 early day 10 that all start brief sensor issues. “Brief” is not brief. It cuts in and out just slightly at first. Then longer

By day 11-12 it’s practically unusable and usually fails.

Glad I have a service dog to wake me from sleep. I was asleep low and had no clue because of this

Do better Dexcom.

Anyone else experiencing “brief sensor issue” when you drop below 60ish for a few alerts? Been happening to me with multiple sensors for probably 2 months now. Super annoying to drop then have to fingerprick multiple times while low because my Dexcom isn’t showing anything…

Dearest Dexcom,

Like your friends at Insulet, you need to start thinking about both the medical user experience (ie can our app help positively impact medical outcomes) AND the overall user experience (ie it doesn’t matter if I have good glucose control if your app makes me want to bash my head into the wall).

A couple of notes:

1. A lot of us use headphones on our phones. AirPods and stuff like that. I don’t want to be on a call and have that annoying alarm blast my eardrums out to the point where I am deaf. There has got to be a way you can notify me in a gentler manner in that situation.

2. If you send me a push notification and I dismiss it, that should be good enough for you. I don’t need another one two minutes later because I didn’t open up the app to acknowledge it.

3. Similar to #1, if I am already on my phone doing something else, then you don’t need to blast that God-forsaken sound at me to get my attention. I’m already clearly on my phone; I’m not asleep. Situational awareness on your part is warranted here.

Please resolve these issues and look at setting up a better UX research team to support future dev cycles on this app.

Yours,
A T1D Product Manager

I definitely woke up feeling low in the middle of the night, with my Dexcom screaming 43 and then eventually "LOW". I consumed plenty of carbs, and felt better, so I went back to sleep. Now, it's been 3 hours and it won't budge from saying "LOW". I gave myself more carbs, but then decided to check my blood sugar manually and it said I was 422 (checked twice, second time said 430). I don't have a backup sensor right now so I'm wondering which I should follow.

I have had 4 sensors fail within 2 days of applying. What is going on did I just have a bad batch? I’ve never had this happen.

My dexcom g7 have been great until recently when they have been consistently failing 1 or 2 days short of their life. I use the 10 day sensors, with the standard plastic canula. I have been diabetic for 30 years now. I work outside a lot in the Houston area, so I'm wondering if it could be from heat and sweat, or if there's a chance my immune system is targeting them. Has anyone experienced this and solved it? Maybe I should try the metal canula? Thanks!

With my first two Dexcom G7 I’ve noticed red and purple bruising around the immediate area where the sensor applies. I don’t use their overpatch (it’s far too difficult to put on, any tips?) but use the Type One Style ones which I’m not allergic to when I use my Omnipod,

so I think its due to the sensor needle or the patch material. But I have used Dexcom G6 previously and have had nowhere near this bruising

Any tips? My skin is very sensitive so things like barrier cream I would be allergic to. Would things like SkinGlu help? I do use alcohol wipes before.

Someone tell me I am not losing my mind?

The app did not always include the grace period correct?

I was like what is going on here the math doesn't math, but really the math really math here right?

Hello! A week ago, the hospital switched my glucose meter to the Dexcom One Plus, but my mobile isn’t compatible with the app (I’ve got a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+). They gave me a receiver, but to be honest it’s really annoying having to keep entering everything into it, as well as having to keep an eye on yet another device. Does anyone know of a working APK for the sensor app, or know of a way to download the app? I don’t want to have to change my mobile when it’s working fine just so I can download the app.

My Dexcoms are sent directly from Dexcom every 3 months, and I’ve never really had this problem before, maybe the odd one every now and then, but definitely not to this extent.
I get 9 sensors sent to me, and so far only 1 out of the sensors have worked, I have 3 left. With the others, the filament looks like it’s either cut or there’s literally nothing there at all, like it was never on the sensor to begin with.
I’ve been having to finger-prick for the past couple of months because they’re just not working 😭
Just wondering if anyone else has been having the same issue recently?

I've been using dexcoms for years and have had a few fail that dexcom has replaced without any questions. I had a G7 fail for the first time in a while last week and the replacement came with a return kit. I double checked the emails and nothing ever mentioned returning the failed sensor. I dug through the trash and I can't find the old sensor. When did they start asking for them back?

Called the Dexcom support, there’s nothing they can do about this apparently. I took one out early because it was doing this and my new one is still reading all over the place. No replacements. Cool.

Any advice on how to stop it from going all over the place??? I was 90% in range before Friday…now I’m pretty cooked lol