For a person with type 1 diabetes, having access to your insulin is critical. If you don’t get your next injections (multiple each day) or your pump runs dry, you’re going to have an emergency on your hands. If your supply at home has run out or spoiled, in Australia we have quite good pharmaceutical …
As part of my participation in the Nexvax2 coeliac vaccine trial, last week I had to attend my local public hospital for a gastroscopy. Of course my AndroidAPS closed-loop insulin pump system went with me. This wasn’t the first time I’d been sedated in hospital while using the loop: you can read about my visit to (a …
Remember yesterday’s article with the hypothetical question about which I would get rid of if I could (diabetes or coeliac disease)? I’ve been getting a variety of feedback from readers, fairly evenly split between choosing one or the other. But what if it wasn’t just hypothetical? Research is being done in both arenas on finding …
I live with two auto-immune conditions: type 1 diabetes, and coeliac disease. The coeliac disease is due to my immune system over-reacting to gluten, and the diabetes is due to my immune system killing off the part of my pancreas which produces insulin. Obviously the coeliac disease doesn’t get much of a look-in on this …
In a slight update to last November’s article on this topic, there’s now a new page on this site: Closed-loop pumps in Australia https://bionicwookiee.com/closed-loop-pumps-in-australia/ It is a high-level overview of the pump and CGM options available today. This link is available from the menu at the top of the BionicWookiee site, and will be updated …
The ADEA (Australian Diabetes Educators Association) recently published a short article in their ADE internal journal which is relevant to DIY loopers. The article (DIY Looping Technologies [PDF copy]) is essentially a status report saying they’re working with the ADS (Australian Diabetes Society, which is the endocrinologists more than the DEs) on a position statement …