# What would your custom Dexcom alerts be?
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686
**Category:** Fun
**Created:** [August 23, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686 "2017-08-23T04:06:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/1 "2017-08-23T04:06:01Z")
If you could make your own Dexcom alerts, what would you choose?
For my regular low alert, I’d start with Low Rider:
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/2 "2017-08-23T04:06:50Z")
And for my urgent low alert, I’d have to go with Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/3 "2017-08-23T04:16:59Z")
For the double arrows down, Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/4 "2017-08-23T16:17:54Z")
I am changing my custom low alert to this:
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/5 "2017-08-23T16:21:27Z")
Mine would be that once I acknowledge the alert it would stay silent for 2 hours for highs and 45 minutes for lows.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/6 "2017-08-23T16:34:56Z")
> [@Chris](#):
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> Mine would be that once I acknowledge the alert it would stay silent for 2 hours for highs and 45 minutes for lows.
You can do that.,
All except for urgent low which will always come back at least every 30 minutes after the first acknowledgement. But regular high and low repeats can be set.
For high alerts, on phone, it’s Alerts \> High \> Repeat, and pick minutes.
On receiver, it’s Alerts \> Advanced \> High Repeat.
Same for low alerts. The only one you can’t change is urgent low.
If you change it there and are hearing it more than once, it’s because it’s crossing back over the threshold and it will alert again, even before the repeat time is reached.
Am I not understanding your comment?
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/7 "2017-08-23T17:09:09Z")
> [@Eric](#):
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> I am changing my custom low alert to this:
“Bow wow wow I want candy” - this was truly a _horrendous_ song 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jen](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Jen)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/8 "2017-08-23T17:17:27Z")
My wish is that there was an “urgent high” alert just like there is an urgent low alert. There are times I go high, correct, and then go about my business. At times I’ve checked back an hour or two later to find I’ve skyrocketed! It would be nice to be able to set an “urgent high” alert at a level above the regular high alert to let you know that you’re _really_ high.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/9 "2017-08-23T17:22:57Z")
> [@Michel](#):
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> “Bow wow wow I want candy” - this was truly a horrendous song
Ok, we can change it to this!
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_6Roia4I0)
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/10 "2017-08-23T17:24:16Z")
Alright, the Candy Man can! I hadn’t heard this one in, oh, 30 years or so!
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/11 "2017-08-23T17:26:53Z")
Ok here is my low alert:
Low Rider, by Stoned Monkeys
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/12 "2017-08-23T17:30:38Z")
And, of course, this is my high alert:
Riding High, by Faze-O
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/13 "2017-08-23T17:35:11Z")
And my urgent low alert is:
Lower Than Low, by Sunshine
Although I like this Lower Than Low song better:
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### Author:  [@cardamom](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/cardamom)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/14 "2017-08-23T17:53:37Z")
> [@Jen](#):
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> My wish is that there was an “urgent high” alert just like there is an urgent low alert.
Yes, this! I’ve wondered why this isn’t at least an optional feature. I want both a “hey you’re getting up there, maybe want to do something about it?” alert and an “OMG INSULIN NOWWW” alert.
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/15 "2017-08-23T18:58:46Z")
You understand perfectly. We often have highs that seem to ride around the threshold at night, and so they go off every 15 minutes for over an hour until the insulin kicks in. What I would like, is for an Alert (other than urgent low) to only be able to be triggered only once every 2 hours, regardless of recrossing a threshold. Then we could get some more sleep.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/16 "2017-08-23T19:14:49Z")
> [@Chris](#):
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> What I would like, is for an Alert (other than urgent low) to only be able to be triggered only once every 2 hours, regardless of recrossing a threshold.
Yeah the threshold is a problem.
How about after you treat, changing the alert level up or down so it doesn’t hover right around that particular number?
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/17 "2017-08-23T20:12:04Z")
> [@Eric](#):
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> How about after you treat, changing the alert level up or down so it doesn’t hover right around that particular number?
While that is a reasonable technology solution it somehow doesn’t happen in the middle of the night “haze”. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/18 "2017-08-23T20:37:38Z")
> [@Chris](#):
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> While that is a reasonable technology solution it somehow doesn’t happen in the middle of the night “haze”.
Well, if you are going to have a repeated low alert…it might as well be the Rolling Stones!
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59K2kF6o9Tk)
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/19 "2017-08-23T20:44:51Z")
I really love that song, but I am a person who really only hears the music and maybe the hook lyrics. My son’s got excited to play brown sugar with their band, until we read the lyrics. It then became an instrumental only version. No 14 year old should sing the lyrics on a stage.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-would-your-custom-dexcom-alerts-be/1686/20 "2017-08-23T21:20:11Z")
> [@Chris](#):
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> No 14 year old should sing the lyrics on a stage.
That’s true. And as a counter-argument…I am not sure how comfortable I am with a 74 year-old singing it either!
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