You may have heard of the Senseonics Eversense implanted CGM. Having seen and experienced CGMs such as the Libre and those from Dexcom and Medtronic, you might be excited by the promise of not having something stuck to you and having to constantly replace it (e.g. weekly/fortnightly). It’s been 3 years since I wrote about …
I have previously written about issues with DIA (“duration of insulin action”) and the values we use in traditional pumps and in loop systems. This is an exploration of some of the recent work on tuning my own loop that’s affected by this. 6 hours? First, let’s look at a visualisation of the “Insulin On …
The recent changes in the Australian pump landscape have been subtle yet significant. So I’ve rolled out an update to my Insulin Pump Choices article. The format of the article has subtly changed, and there is a bunch of updated data in there. More detail about many of the pumps, links to relevant peer-support groups, …
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It’s sometimes fascinating, living with chronic medical conditions. Note that in a medical context “chronic” refers to “long-term” rather than “severe”. It can be a mental challenge, and admittedly “fascinating” is not a term that everybody would choose for it. It’s all about probability With diabetes in particular, we often hear about it putting us …
Back in February I wrote about some of my experiences with “Living with an actual closed loop“. Time has ticked by, it’s now been 4 months since my last bolus, and I’ve just come back from a meeting with my endocrinologist. To re-cap: I have my AndroidAPS setup tuned fairly well (and using Fiasp in …
Dexcom CGM transmitters have 6-digit transmitter IDs, normally printed on the underside of the transmitter. So far the G5 transmitters have had IDs in the range 40xxxx – 42xxxx. G6 start with 8, and G6+ with 2. Things would not be good if you had two transmitters with the same ID in the same location: …