There may not be many Bionic Wookiee updates for the rest of July, as I’m currently off on a photographic expedition through Namibia. Yes I’ve taken my T1D, my coeliac disease, and my cameras and headed off for 3 weeks self-drive around parts of Africa (I am after all amongst other things a professional nature …
“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 …
We seem to be seeing another rash of people reporting cracks in their “waterproof” Medtronic 640G insulin pumps. Medtronic keeps replacing them under warranty, although we do see some people complaining of things like that it’s the 5th time this has happened to them. Clearly this pump is no longer waterproof! As noted in my …
Lots of news has been surfacing lately about the Tandem t:slim X2 pump which is being brought to Australia by AMSL. There are still some details yet to be clarified, but here’s a little recap. The pump is approved by the TGA for supply in Australia. The consumables are not yet available through the NDSS …
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 …
Hot news for June 2018: the TGA has given approval for two new insulin infusion devices to be supplied in Australia. Tandem A Tandem insulin pump (presumably the t:slim X2) has finally been approved! I’ve written about the t:slim previously. Expect lots of press fanfare from AMSL (the Australian distributors). They’ve been saying for a …