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Post by glp1guide »

tibbydudeza wrote: post #97
glp1guide wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also note that drugs like Ozempic (GLP1 Receptor Agonists) work in at least the following ways: - slow down stomach emptying (which was noted) - improving glucose disposal - reduce appetite by affecting brain chemistry GLP1 RAs are really really interesting compounds (I'm a bit biased of course)

I must note my gut has some interesting moments with it - some days - also I used to love mince (think US calls it a sloppy joe) - now I can't stand the sight and smell of it.

That's really interesting -- I wonder what your body is reacting to in there...

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Post by juangacovas »

begueradj wrote: post #81
ping00 wrote: post #13

I just wanted to add that your writing style is wonderful and that this was a pleasure to read. Incidentally, I work in pentesting, and one of my colleagues has Type 1 Diabetes; your overview of it and its resultant complexities really made me empathize with what challenges he has to surmount daily while still being one of the nicest, most approachable people in our team.

Your employer must be good then. Lots of companies don't hire and fire sick employees. Actually it's generally advised not to share one's medeical information at workplace. I even read recently about the case of a worker who wasn't promoted despite everyone else expected him to be promoted. His sin ? He told briefly one of his colleagues that his car got stuck and he was tired of fixing it every now and then. The pro…

At my office I'm one of the more valuable employees, being diabetic type 1 or not, and my managers know that :)

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Post by myroon5 »

rob74 wrote: post #86
ping00 wrote: post #13

I just wanted to add that your writing style is wonderful and that this was a pleasure to read. Incidentally, I work in pentesting, and one of my colleagues has Type 1 Diabetes; your overview of it and its resultant complexities really made me empathize with what challenges he has to surmount daily while still being one of the nicest, most approachable people in our team.

Yes... you can lead a normal life with diabetes (you can even be a top level tennis player - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zverev#Personal_life ), but this article really made me appreciate the level of self-discipline it takes to do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sportspeople_with_diab...

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by yochem »

zy0n911 wrote: post #20

Incidentally, I created something related to this yesterday. A tmux plugin to display your glucose data as a status icon in your terminal. As a T1 myself, I use a Dexcom as my CGM and have it working around that specifically, but I'd love to open it up to other devices too, and offer more. Feel free to check it out! https://github.com/Cian911/tmux-xdrip

As a T1Der living in tmux, this is awesome! I'm gonna try this asap.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by corrado_serge »

grahar64 wrote: post #94
mattboyle wrote: post #91

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Thanks Graham. We actually spoke a little on Twitter after you posted that article here a year or so a go. I’m really happy to hear your son is doing well

Oh true, those days seem like a lifetime ago. I am now writing an app to make remote monitoring easier for Sams preschool, but are planning on writing a scalable replacement to Nightscout soon. Also digging into the various algorithms would be fun. There are so many ways that software can make T1D more tolerable, I am glad you have found some solutions for yourself too :)

In you post you've mentioned that if toddler refuses to eat you need to prepare food. Did you try to give juice? When doctors explained to us what to expect, they said this would work just fine and kids love juice.

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Post by dolmen »

mattboyle wrote: post #41
bluesounddirect wrote: post #23

Sorry 1/2 into the article all that kept popping into my head is someone tell this man about a cgm like a dexcom . It all of this out of the box . My wife has been a t1d for 30 years the dexcom cgm makes all of this a lot better

I wrote the article- I’m very aware of Dexcom and it doesn’t have all this out the box

@mattboyle: "A Brief Detour into Incident Management" should be formatted as a title, but isn't.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by [deleted] »

petepete wrote: post #93

I'm intrigued by the idea of the Miao Miao. I'm a T1 diabetic and while the Freestyle Libre is an _amazing_ device, truly life changing, the software is pretty bad. I reported a bug more than a year ago and Abbott still haven't acknowledged it as being a bug, despite there being loads of reports online and in their app reviews on Google Play. For anyone interested, or who might be able to add weight to my case for th…

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Post by ferringb »

tomsmeding wrote: post #109

> During this period, I am not able to take my blood glucose levels using the device and I also would not receive alerts, if my blood sugar was to reach dangerous levels. This error had the habit of showing up at the most stressful times. > [...] > After playing around it seemed that the main app didn’t like sending data that it felt was anomalous due to a sudden change in blood glucose level. That sounds like a life…

Most sensors do this. You're assuming the sensor is always accurate- they aren't. Roll over onto the sensor while sleeping and you shove the glucose oxidase strip deeper into the body resulting in a change in readings, for example.

Strictly speaking, you're not supposed to make treatment decisions based on the CGM data.

For dexcom sensors, certain apps can pull the raw values and bypass this. For libre- at least the libre3- I've seen it backfill the data in certain cases where it seems to realize that it's not a bad reading, your BG is just going through a fast swing.

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Post by user_7832 »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #59
user_7832 wrote: post #54

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As someone who’s planning to start a TSlim, this is a bit worrying. Admittedly even an average value of 7mmol would be an improvement over where I am, but I’ve certainly heard the lack of aggressiveness as an issue with the controlIQ system (if that’s what your daughter is using).

Yeah, ControlIQ. I do imagine it's different for everyone though, and would also depend on what your alternatives are. In our circumstances, it's a huge improvement over manual injections. But by no means the closed loop silver bullet we're all hoping for. We ran the TSlim on BasalIQ (precursor to ControlIQ) for a couple of years. Haven't done her HbA1C since we swapped, so I don't have any hard data. Well, and with…

Thanks a lot for your reply!

I kind of do have the option for a omnipod dash with a diy loop using something like nightscout, but my nurses have advised against it (I suppose significantly because it's not something they can directly monitor or have knowledge of). I'm highly tempted to just use the TSlim because if my projects are anything to go by it'll be years before I actually set it up haha

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Post by Benjamin_Dobell »

user_7832 wrote: post #129
Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, ControlIQ. I do imagine it's different for everyone though, and would also depend on what your alternatives are. In our circumstances, it's a huge improvement over manual injections. But by no means the closed loop silver bullet we're all hoping for. We ran the TSlim on BasalIQ (precursor to ControlIQ) for a couple of years. Haven't done her HbA1C since we swapped, so I don't have any hard data. Well, and with…

Thanks a lot for your reply! I kind of do have the option for a omnipod dash with a diy loop using something like nightscout, but my nurses have advised against it (I suppose significantly because it's not something they can directly monitor or have knowledge of). I'm highly tempted to just use the TSlim because if my projects are anything to go by it'll be years before I actually set it up haha

I'm in Australia so have had similar thoughts about the Dash. Because it's my daughter and not me, I figure I better not. When the Omnipod 5 lands in Australia we'll likely swap over since it supports closed loop out of the box.
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