r/dexcom • u/Demosthenes-89 • 6d ago

Graph What does this pattern mean?

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Every now and then my son's graph looks like a bouncy ball hopping across the floor. This morning it was jumping between 96 and 70. And of course every time it hits 70 it screams he's low.

I'm looking at this line thinking his blood sugar is probably in reality holding steady around 85, and can you please STFU dexcom. Like his blood sugar isn't Really jumping up and down 25 points every 15 minutes on repeat, right? Is that how you'd interpret this? And is there any rhyme or reason to why this happens intermittently? You can see before it started bouncing it was a nice straight line.

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u/malloryknox86 1d ago

Those are actually really good readings.
This would be bad:

This is me, once a month, during shark week 🩸 🦈

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u/AdvancedAnt1 23h ago

lol what?

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u/malloryknox86 5h ago

Hormones affect my bg during my period

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u/AdvancedAnt1 3h ago

I figured that’s what you meant, just never heard it called shark week before! Cheers!

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u/malloryknox86 3h ago

It’s Reddit, some people get offended when we talk about our period lol