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Permalink Reply by BagLady on November 7, 2011 at 12:37pm

YES! It is loud enough to wake the dead - I used to be concerned because during the day when I would get a high/low alarm it would not beep, just vibrate. But soon discovered that the audio alarm comes into play when the vibrate is not responded to (no 'ok' or 'c' buttons pushed). And it has always been loud enough for me. Of course, I do not have any hearing issues. For someone who is hearing impaired there may be a problem, but then the vibrate would hopefully be enough to wake them.

Permalink Reply by Gary on November 7, 2011 at 12:39pm

YES

Permalink Reply by Lauren on November 7, 2011 at 12:39pm

Yes, loud enough for me too!

Permalink Reply by Lauren on November 7, 2011 at 2:35pm

I would agree with other commenters that it would be nice if there were more options.

Permalink Reply by Rebecca on November 7, 2011 at 12:48pm

NO, it was the first couple weeks but since then I've just slept through it every time. I need to have it physically connected to my body so I feel it vibrate in order to have any chance at waking. With that said, it is way to loud during the day when I'm at the office. I wish there was a quiet setting for daytime and a crazy setting for night time.

Permalink Reply by Joe Greene on November 7, 2011 at 12:52pm

YES. It wasn't at first, but I tend to sleep very heavily, and it takes me a while to adjust to new alarms and such. Now, it will wake me up almost 100% of the time on the first beep.

Permalink Reply by Jessica05 on November 7, 2011 at 12:55pm

I believe the alarm is loud enough to wake someone. I do have a complaint with the lack of settings for the alarms. We just switched over from Medtronic Minimed and I had the ability to program high/lo alerts according to the time of day. The first day of my daughter wearing it to school she came home and told me, "too many alarms!" because of her usual breakfast BG spike (still working to minimize that)
Also, we've discovered with my daughter's recent bout with strep that tylenol affects Dexcom's readings. Bummer...but we love the comfort level of Dexcom, so we're going with it for now.

Permalink Reply by AaronK on November 7, 2011 at 12:55pm

NO!
We put it on our daughter's nightstand next to a baby monitor and the monitor's speaker is on our nightstand (with the vol. cranked up). It's not uncommon for one of us to not hear the alarm and/or the vibration.
Yes, I wish there were more options.

Permalink Reply by Kelly WPA on November 7, 2011 at 1:00pm

No, it never wakes me at night. I previously had a Navigator and those alarms were very loud and always woke me. The Dexcom alarms are horrible. I also hate the fact that the first alarm is vibrate - that does no good at night. I wish Dexcom would do something about the alarms.

Permalink Reply by Jarral Ryter on November 7, 2011 at 1:37pm

No not really. Especially if I'm low. It wakes my wife however. Maybe that is because most of the time it is just on vibrate mode as the alarm is too loud during the day.

Permalink Reply by IMVic on November 7, 2011 at 3:43pm

Yes - it is loud enough for me. My 12 yr old daughter says hers is loud enough as well.

Permalink Reply by Brad Ringer on November 7, 2011 at 3:50pm

No because I keep it in the "skin"

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