▲ 10 r/Type1Diabetes
Is this true? Is this a recent video? This sounds too good to be true
youtube.comu/Stephen-Stephenson — 12 days ago
▲ 20 r/diabetes_t1
It was extremely stupid to make a 90 seconds timeout in Akku check instant glucometer
Good luck trying to measure a toddler's blood with such short timeout. As soon as you are ready to put the test strip to the drop of blood on the finger, this stupid thing turns off. Often at the exact moment you do it. It was obviously tested on adults only and never on toddlers.
Contour Next One doesn't have this problem and its inactivity timeout is much longer, but its test strips are not refunded in Poland.
u/Stephen-Stephenson — 4 months ago
▲ 2 r/diabetes_t1
Dr. Piotr Witkowski from the University of Chicago discussing new data from Eledon Trial.
youtube.comu/Stephen-Stephenson — 4 months ago
▲ 100 r/diabetes_t1
This is what one year of insulin use looks like
There was no need to keep used pens, I'm going to throw them in the garbage for recycling now.
This is a one‑year supply. Liprolog is another name for Humalog. This is short-acting insulin for a 3-year-old child using the MiniMed 780G pump.
Five pens cost about 25€ at full price. In Poland, insulin is free for people under 26 years old, over 65 and for pregnant women, but if you don't fall into any of these categories, you're on your own, which is unfair and doesn't make any sense. Insulin is completely free for everyone in many other European countries. Poland needs to catch up. Anyone can develop type 1 diabetes - no one is immune to this disease. The incidence of type 1 diabetes is increasing each year.
u/Stephen-Stephenson — 5 months ago
▲ 3 r/Medtronic780g
Any chance to make the algorithm react to rising blood sugar earlier?
I'm absolutely sure the 780G is the best pump in the world, with the best algorithm - and I'm glad we have it.
Still, I've noticed it takes a bit too long, in my opinion, before it provides an auto-correction.
Take a look at this picture, for example, this is from last week:
As shown above, the first auto‑correction occurred at 140. Why so late? 140 mg/dL is the upper limit for a healthy person's blood sugar - it never goes higher than this, except when a non‑diabetic has a fever (which is unrelated here).
Why not provide an auto‑correction when glucose reaches 110, or at least 120? That would make it much easier to stay closer to the 70-100 mg/dL range, achieve the best possible A1c and avoid complications even after living with this disease for decades.
Yes, we've set 100 mg/dL as our target in the pump settings, not 110. Is this a safety measure in the algorithm to avoid potential legal issues?
I understand other pumps are worse and their algorithms are inferior compared to the 780G - the 780G is the best. Still, I think this should be improved: we need faster corrections. The sensor is already 10-15 minutes behind real blood glucose, so why the extra delay? Is this delay due to legal/safety constraints? Can it be adjusted? Would increasing basal rates help? Has anyone tried other options?
And look at this picture, please, this is from right now:
I was still awake and gave our daughter a manual correction of "ghost" carbs - 0.325 U - when I noticed her glucose started rising and was at 123 mg/dL. It brought her down to 102 mg/dL perfectly (now 98 and it's flat, with 0.125U on board). So why does the algorithm delay auto‑corrections? The higher the glucose, the harder it is to bring down; it takes progressively more time. Why not auto‑correct earlier, and how can we make the pump do that? Or must we wait for the Flex, which supposedly will allow a 90 mg/dL target, even though it will ship with the same algorithm?
u/Stephen-Stephenson — 5 months ago