For years I used Humalog as my “fast” insulin (before that I used Actrapid!) so when I moved to Fiasp that’s what I had to compare with. I’ve recently experimented with switching back to Humalog to check my settings, and the results were interesting. Including that my no-bolus, no-announce closed-loop system still worked. I have …
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 …
Today marked 4 years since I started “looping”: using a “DIY” closed-loop insulin pump system. I wrote about it on this blog at the time (see the “GERTY” article). At that point I had lived with Type 1 diabetes for almost 35 years (that milestone comes up in a few months). In retrospect the clinical …
It’s a question many Australians are asking: “When will we get Control-IQ?” And it seems a fair enough question. Many people have been looking forward to the Tandem t:slim X2 pump having a hybrid closed-loop implementation (using Dexcom G6 CGM). Stepping through the years Some of the details are buried in my Australian Insulin Pump …
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 …
Back in February I wrote about some of my experiences with “Living with an actual closed loop“. Time has ticked by, it’s now been 4 months since my last bolus, and I’ve just come back from a meeting with my endocrinologist. To re-cap: I have my AndroidAPS setup tuned fairly well (and using Fiasp in …