Back in early February I wrote about the latest news/rumours about insulin pumps for the Australian market. During my March UK trip I’ve been privileged to meet many other people with type 1 diabetes, in a variety of locations around the country. Some are using closed-loop pump systems, but as usual there’s actually been a …
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 …
It’s around the time of year that daylight saving time starts or ends (depending on where you live) and this affects our devices. Think about the diabetes devices we use that use clocks. BG meters, CGMs, phones, pumps. Life is certainly easier when they all agree on the time. And insulin pumps have basal rates programmed …
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 …
The autocorrect functions in modern phones can certainly speed up a lot of things, but occasionally they get in the way. In online diabetes forums it’s unfortunately become common to see people talking about “nasal rates” and giving themselves “blouses”. That’s usually autocorrect replacing words it doesn’t recognise. But it’s usually easy to work around. …
The features of insulin pumps differ between models, but there are many similarities and it’s usually not too hard to change to a different model. But one subtle but confronting difference can be the way we can set a basal profile of insulin delivery. However adjusting to a new method is usually not a hard …