No, I’m not 35 years old today. But my diabetes is! Actually, it’s the anniversary of my diagnosis and hospital admission in 1982. I presumably had diabetes for a while before that, but October 2 is the date that means something. But it’s not a date I’ve paid a lot of attention to over the years. …
I’m in the middle of one of many experiments: I’m now using a Dexcom G5 CGM system instead of a Freestyle Libre. It’s not necessarily going to be a permanent change, but I have a box of G5 sensors to work through while I compare the two. I’ve been using the Libre since it became available …
The Libre glucose sensor is fairly robust, but is only rated for 30 minutes in the water and only less than a metre deep. Here’s how I improve on that. In April 2017 I was travelling in Papua New Guinea aboard a small ship on a scouting trip investigating a future photography workshop destination. We …
I have used the Abbott Libre “Flash GM” glucose monitoring system since June 2016, so I’ve built up some tricks along the way. I figured I should record some of them for posterity….. Abbott’s Libre Reader (scanner) is a fairly critical piece of equipment. Not only do you use it to scan readings off your …
Well a lot has been going on recently! Looping! I have been running my insulin through a closed-loop pump system for several weeks now, and it’s running well. My system is using a Medtronic Veo pump, an OpenAPS Edison rig, and my existing JARVIS CGM. The OpenAPS software can be configured in many ways, but by …
A theme I hear repeated many times in D-communities is that of finding used BG test strips in all sorts of random places. In the car, in the bed, in the bottom of a handbag, in the freezer (??), and so on. This post is just an outline of the method I use to avoid …