David Burren

Every day is an experiment

No technical details in today’s article. Just philosophy… I think most people with T1D are familiar with the concept of every day being an experiment. But people do interpret this in different ways. Mad science Some people think of this along the lines of the Muppets’ interpretation, where Bunsen’s experiments always end up in disaster. …

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An experimental OJ

In a conversation about a recent article about my fully-closed looping a question was posed to me about how my body (and AID system) would react to something like an unannounced fruit juice. My results have to be influenced by my diet to some extent. Fruit juice is something I don’t consume much of. And …

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Progressing through Hybrid and “Fully” Closed-looping

I’ve done articles like this in the past, comparing my clinical results over the years. But I’ve just hit what feels like another milestone, so I’m going to re-do it using my current reporting tools. I’m going to show data from four points in time: 2017, when I’d only recently started using an Automated Insulin …

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Ranges and Timeframes

I recently wrote about the value of HbA1c in measuring more than just our average BG level. And in fact that it’s often not accurate in that. Our best tools for measuring our BG patterns at the moment are Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems. Basic data CGM data can show us is how much our …

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