I’ve been gradually making tweaks to my personal looping/pumping/CGM setup over the last year, and there are some insights to be seen in the graphs that I’d like to point out. Some of the information in this article is stuff I’ve discussed before (last March) but there is some new data here. Especially some insights …
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The food and festivities of Christmas are often a challenge for people living with diabetes (in my case: Type 1). It’s all too easy to find our BG skyrocketing after the feast. So there’s pressure to try to keep a close eye on our diabetes and control it (both through food choices and through the …
The HbA1c blood test is one that most people with diabetes are familiar with, at least to some extent. It measures the proportion of haemoglobin in our blood that has bonded with glucose, and is regarded as an indicator of your average BG levels over the preceding 3 months. “What’s your HbA1c?” is a question …
Talk of “Time in Range” and goal ranges regarding BG and CGM data is a common thing these days. I have written about Targets and Goals in the past. Various different pieces of software let you define your “low” and “high” marks to define your goal range, and then report statistics on what percentage of TiR …
In yesterday’s article I mentioned some ways we can use numbers like our insulin sensitivity factor. Here’s another. If we see our BG climbing steadily, we usually know something’s going on. It could be that the food we ate had a larger effect than we expected (such as the carb count was underestimated). Or maybe the insulin …