This is a follow-on from my “Adjunctive therapies” article. If you haven’t read that yet, please do so before proceeding. Here I’m going to talk about a few of the medications that people already take in parallel with insulin use. Not all of them of course (only statins, fibrates, and metformin) but there are other …
As people living with Type 1 Diabetes we’re used to the concepts of dosing ourselves with insulin and how that interacts with food, exercise, and our BG levels. It can be very convoluted, with many subtle factors sometimes having significant effect on our BG. But is the world as straightforward as “only” striving for perfect …
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. …
This Saturday is the date for the 2023 Cukrzyca Tech Fest, an online conference with a series of talks about various aspects of diabetes tech. One of the speakers is me! I’m presenting a half-hour session titled “Tuning a closed loop – every day is an experiment“. In case you didn’t know I don’t speak …
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 …
Friday the 31st of March is the last day you can get an Australian doctor to write a Fiasp script, which hopefully we can then get dispensed at PBS price up until the 1st of October 2023. I outlined this earlier this month in “A reprieve for Fiasp“. At least, that’s the current situation. Everyone’s hoping …