Libre Link 2 alarm signal loss in the night

I would be interested to know of others experience with Libre Link 2 with the loss of signal alarm going off in the night. Very frustrating but is there any harm in switching this off at night as it is no different to Diabetics who are relying on finger pricking and are not doing this during the night?

I use a Dexcom G6 rather than a Libre but its pretty much the same thing. I also read a lot of Reddit forums on the Dexcom and a lot of Dexcom G7 users have complained about similar issues. The explination makes sense. If the phone is on the other side of your body on a nightstand, the Bluetooth signal gets attenuated ( or absorbed) by the body and so doesn't reach your phone. The G7 like a Libre is a small disk which doesn't contain much space for a transmitter or a battery, so the bluetooth has a relatively short range, which when added to the body absortion causes the signal loss.
Personally I am now lucky enough to have a Tandem T:Slim2 pump which also links to the dexcom, since I keep the pump on my waste band on the same side as the Dexcom , the signal has a lot less distance to travel and so I don't get signal loss errors

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply Mark

I just wondered if it makes too much difference to switch it off during the signal loss alarm at night as it's no difference to someone who doesn't have a sensor and just finger pricks during the day?

For me, I would want to fix the signal loss. The idea of CGM is to warn you if you are going too low or too high. If you are not really concerned about this , why do you wear the Libre ? Just curious not being critical in any way. I need mine as I can go low overnight and have been woken by the CGM multiple times because I was going low and needed a Hypo Treatment. That's why for me personally, fixing the signal loss is most important.

Turning it off does in effect put you back to just finger pricking but as you will have seen having worn a Libre, 4 times a day misses a huge amount of information that could be used to better manage your diabetes. In theory the data should all appear when the signal is restored, I don't know how much data a Libre can hold though before some is over ridden and you lose it completely.

I think, but I’m not sure, that when I had a Libre I could turn off signal loss alarms but keep the low and high alarms switched on. Signal loss usually rights itself once signal is restored. I now use a Dexcom 1 and only tend to get signal loss alarms if I leave my phone in another room!