People who know me wouldn’t be surprised to hear I’ve been experimenting with an insulin change recently. I started out pumping using Humalog. In 2018 I spent a few months experimenting with Apidra in the hope I could get a faster result (and thus a more-responsive loop). And then when Fiasp finally arrived in Australia …
I have previously written about issues with DIA (“duration of insulin action”) and the values we use in traditional pumps and in loop systems. This is an exploration of some of the recent work on tuning my own loop that’s affected by this. 6 hours? First, let’s look at a visualisation of the “Insulin On …
How long does the insulin we inject last in our bodies? Many people are confused about the answer to that. Unfortunately just like so many other things in life, the answer is usually “it depends”! We set the insulin duration in our pumps, and if we get it too short then the pump can end up …