Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch
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#2I’ve always been clueless about this subject until lately I’ve been helping out with getting these electronic monitors into Ukraine.
Apparently they’re extremely helpful for children and parents, who don’t know how to track their condition yet.
This solution could be amazing for those children/parents
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#3The author has done a lot of work, but the title of this article is very misleading. There's no monitoring happening on the watch, it's just used
to display the results that are collected by another device.
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#4The author has done a lot of work, but the title of this article is very misleading. There's no monitoring happening on the watch, it's just used to display the results that are collected by another device.
He is in fact putting the results of his CGM on his Apple Watch.
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#5Sounds cool if i didn't have to have micro needles in my arm. Anyone wear one of these things? I figure it useful for a month then after that you have a sense on what impacts your glucose…
Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch
#6The author has done a lot of work, but the title of this article is very misleading. There's no monitoring happening on the watch, it's just used to display the results that are collected by another device.
He is in fact putting the results of his CGM on his Apple Watch.
Well even if another device is collecting the data, it is being monitored on the watch.. if it was being fed to a computer it would just be being watched on a monitor.
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#7My son does something similar. In Vietnam, only the Freestyle Libre 1 is available, so we got the aftermarket MiaoMiao transmitter for it. The transmitter talks to an iPhone running xDripForiOS (https://github.com/JohanDegraeve/xdripswift) which, in turn, pushes the CGM data to nightscout (https://nightscout.github.io). We can then follow that data on nightscout using xdrip on our own phones.
It's been a real life changer. Before I'd have to stay up at night to check his blood a couple of times, but now I no longer need to. We've been able to flatten his curve and keep him in a sane range by adapting his basal rate based on the data. I can see when he is dropping low at school and inform them to correct the situation.
I'm not sure why the author isn't using nightscout data for his complication though. Great article, none the less.
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#9Sounds cool if i didn't have to have micro needles in my arm. Anyone wear one of these things? I figure it useful for a month then after that you have a sense on what impacts your glucose…
My 10 year old is a type 1 diabetic and wears a Dexcom CGM. It isn't really a needle that's in your skin (for 10 days in this case), it's a flexible filament. It is delivered/inserted into you skin via a special insertion device.
There's so many things that can affect your blood glucose level that it can be maddening to deal with as a diabetic. Mood, activity level, time of day/night, different foods take longer/shorter to raise your blood sugar, etc.
Re: Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch
#10I’ve always been clueless about this subject until lately I’ve been helping out with getting these electronic monitors into Ukraine. Apparently they’re extremely helpful for children and parents, who don’t know how to track their condition yet. This solution could be amazing for those children/parents
They're extremely helpful for anyone who has diabetes period. Aside from finger pricks, which no one wants to do every 5 minutes (that's how often they usually update your BG level), there's no other way (yet?) to monitor/track blood glucose levels.