Coding is 100% a superpower. Great post and love how you approached this. Hopefully it gives others similar ideas to help them.
How I keep myself alive using Golang
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#102I could be mistaken but I believe both types of diabetes has no cure; however type 2 is MUCH MORE manageable with a proper diet?
There's no cure, but 'remission' is possible in type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes. Remission is defined as maintaining normal blood sugar levels without medication. This is not possible in type 1 diabetes
"There's no cure" for type 2 diabetes is true only on a technicality. Type 2 diabetes is defined as a progressive disease, which means that if you actually practically cure it, it is still technically defined as "in remission". It's just words.
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#103This is a great write-up. I will definitely implement a subset of this for my father, who is a type 1 diabetic. While he has lived with it for close to 25 years and has a lot of experience managing it, occasional slip ups still happen. Just recently, he had a small fracture from falling down during a hypoglycaemic episode. This might help prevent that or at least lessen the impact.
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#104Amazing stuff. My three year old son was diagnosed four weeks ago so this really resonates with me.
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#105I wonder how the age at diagnosis affects your approach. I see people like this guy or Scott Hanselman going "science the sh*t out of this" and minmaxing their health, but AFAIK they were diagnosed as adults. I was 4 when I was diagnosed and even though I know I could do something to try to improve my results, my approach ends up just being intuition, winging it and trying to think about it as little as possible. I'm left wondering if I have internalized powerlessness over this matter.
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#106You've set up a torture loop for yourself instead of listening to your body and the existing medical device. And you are now piping medical biometric data through both Google Calendar and your Apple watch.
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#107Take a look at xdrip4ios[1]. If you are using Libre 2 sensors you don't need MiaoMiao, Libre 2 has Bluetooth connectivity built in. The other piece of the puzzle is Nighscout[2] that stores data in Mongodb (last time I looked at it). You can also enter a custom script to your Nightscout installation that can be your own endpoint to accepting JSON data about BG. 1) https://xdrip4ios.readthedocs.io/ 2) http://www.night…
In many countries the official Libre app now supports bluetooth continuous updates on Libre 2 and 3. That said I do much prefer xdrip4ios.
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#108Slightly related, but I've also been working on and off for a few years on my own Type 1 Diabetes management solution (https://github.com/algao1/iv3).
I haven't had time to work on it recently, but it uses ntfy and Retool to send alerts and visualizations. Originally I did everything over Discord, but found the UI to be not great especially on mobile.
I was thinking of eventually incorporating some kind of automatic remedial solution eventually to help keep my glucose in range, but haven't had any time to look into it yet.
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#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.
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> 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-threatening bug.
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#110Amazing stuff. My three year old son was diagnosed four weeks ago so this really resonates with me.
I’m in the same boat with you with my 3 year old daughter.
I’m grateful of the free health care that our country has.