This is part travel story, and part commentary about a BG meter. Take spares For my recent African trip I assembled spares of everything, so I’d be fine if anything misbehaved. I had a backup pump, a backup OpenAPS rig, a backup CGM-collection phone, a spare G5 transmitter, spare sensors, BG meters, insulin (both sets …
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“How accurate is the Libre anyway?” It’s a question we hear a lot. Many people are surprised when the values it reports are different to the BG value reported by their meter. But as I described in a recent article about meter accuracy, your meter doesn’t always tell you “the truth”. So I decided to …
BG meters are not accurate: they’re allowed to not report your actual BG value. Shocking, but true. Many people use a single meter, and assume that the number reported is their actual BG value. And then when they use a CGM (or a Libre) they complain that the numbers from those devices don’t match their …
As people living with chronic conditions we build up real-world experience that it sometimes seems device manufacturers don’t have and don’t take advantage of. This is probably sometimes true, although we might sometimes just be expecting too much. I came across some examples recently during my time in the UK, relating to the new Eversense …
As most people with Type 1 diabetes will know, when visiting your endocrinologist they’ll usually scan over your latest lab blood test results in the appointment. There are many important things tested there, but I’m talking here only about the numbers that relate to blood glucose. Blood glucose (BG) is our primary indicator of how …
People talk about improved sleep with closed loops, as the system continually adjusts your pump’s basal insulin flow to keep you within range while you sleep. But it wasn’t something I was really conscious of before today. In fact a week ago I was talking to my endocrinologist about how I was coping on the …