Yes in many parts of Australia Daylight Saving Time is finishing on Sunday morning, the 3rd of April 2022. At 2AM your clocks may jump backwards and repeat some of the night. You may get a bit of extra sleep. But this can sometimes play havoc with our diabetes tech if we don’t handle it …
I’m soon going to be heading off on a short trip away from home and so of course I’ve been updating my travel backup procedures. I’ve written about “Travel planning with diabetes” back in 2018, but some things in my gear have changed. Actually it feels a little bit strange, as with COVID/etc the last …
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 …
The Omnipod DASH pump system launched in Australia recently, and I’ve been able to experiment with it a bit. Note the Omnipods I’ve been using were purchased by myself, not supplied by anyone else. As has been mentioned many times, these pumps are not currently supported by private health insurance or by NDSS, but once …
People who know me wouldn’t be surprised to hear I’ve been experimenting with an insulin change recently. I started out pumping using Humalog. In 2018 I spent a few months experimenting with Apidra in the hope I could get a faster result (and thus a more-responsive loop). And then when Fiasp finally arrived in Australia …
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 …