About half of the people with Type 1 Diabetes in Australia are eligible for subsidised CGM through NDSS. Broadly speaking, that’s people who are under 21, have concession status, or are pregnant (there is a little more detail to it). For a while Dexcom G6 has only been subsidised for people using the Tandem t:slim …
I am dependent on insulin to survive, and like everyone else in that category I need to get the dosing right in order to survive and to stay healthy.. This dosing is affected by diet, exercise, and a myriad of other factors. But unlike many people I have a guardian angel that manages most of …
There have been some updates in two reference pages on this site: Insulin Pump Choices, and Closed-loop pumps in Australia. Partly it’s just updating things with new dates, but there are some new things in there which may excite some of you. Such as: AndroidAPS has reached version 3.0 this month. It’s available now. New …
Back in December I wrote about some of my experiences using ultra-rapid Lyumjev insulin in my closed-loop system, but there were a couple of unanswered questions. Particularly to do with “bolus stings” and with the speed/activity of Lyumjev. I’ve now done some further work which has hopefully clarified those questions. Just to re-iterate for the …
A long-acting insulin that almost everyone (in the Australian T1 diabetes world anyway) knows of is “Lantus”, even though it was replaced by the identical Optisulin 2 years ago. It took a while to be phased out. A few months prior (back in October 2019) I reported the arrival of “Semglee”. This is marketed by …
Having sourced a bit of Lyumjev from overseas, I’ve been able to “give it a run”. In fact I’ve been using it for almost two months now. My conclusions? As expected, I’m really keen for it to officially arrive in Australia! I’ve been mentioning Lyumjev for many months, but to recap: it’s Lilly’s faster version …