Dexcom has just announced for Australia another medication which can interfere with their CGMs. Hydroxyurea is a cytotoxic medication used mainly in chemotherapy, so hopefully this won’t affect many people. But it has been shown to artificially raise the readings returned by the Dexcom CGMs (without actually raising the blood glucose). Thus caution should be …
My closed-loop insulin pump system is based around AndroidAPS, which runs on an Android phone and connects to both my CGM and my insulin pump via Bluetooth. Since 2009 my “phone phone” has been an iPhone, and I carry a separate device just for the diabetes management. I often refer to it as “my pancreas” …
I’ve just had a 5-page article published in the March/April 2021 edition of Australian Diabetic Living. This is under the Better Homes and Gardens umbrella, and probably available in a supermarket near you. The master copy is online though It’s a re-hash of my article here which describes the pumps currently available in the Australian …
CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) systems are one of today’s most effective tools to help manage diabetes (especially T1D). Thousands of people rely on it to help keep them alive. And yet the costs have just suddenly skyrocketed! The official starting position For a long time AMSL (the distributor of Dexcom CGMs in Australia) had a …
Just to recap the obvious: I use an insulin pump. I also use a CGM. They’re both connected into a closed-loop pump system. But what does that mean? What is a closed loop? Strictly speaking, a “closed loop” is one that operates automatically based on feedback. Often these insulin pump loop systems are referred to …
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 …