The 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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Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch
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#22Friend of my wife, type 1, just 2 weeks ago died in his sleep from mismanaged blood sugar. He was only 37 and was otherwise very healthy - it was shocking, I never knew it was so dangerous and that mis measuring or forgetting before going to bed could have such dire consequences. I though it was like sleeping with your contacts in. This is a gap this tech could close, I hope it’s widely available soon - hopefully an artificial pancreas is near as well.
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#23Where does one buy these glucose monitors ? Do you need to get it prescribed by doctors ? Or can healthy people get one too ?
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#24What ever happened to that glucose monitoring contact lens that google/verily was working on?
Mentioned in the article: “Google was working on (and then cancelled [0]) a contact lens that measured glucose levels in the tears and then communicated those levels with a small LED in the lens itself.” [0] https://www.labiotech.eu/in-depth/contact-lens-glucose-diabe...
Wow, that's the kind of thing that makes you feel like you've "arrived" in the future.
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#25Sounds 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…
I had an IV needle stuck in my arm for a couple days when I had appendicitis. If it weren't for the tube hanging off it, I would have hardly known it was there. I barely felt it going in, either. I'm quite sure a CGM is even less obtrusive.
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#26I was looking into this the other week, I couldn't find a CGM supplier in the US that would sell dtc. I don't need it for any medical reasons. Im just interested in the data. Anyone know of a supplier?
I got mine from Levels. They use the same sensor as mentioned in the article, and wrap it with their own app. Very easy to deal with. They are trying to limit demand so you need an invite code, but you can find one on Google in 5 minutes. [1] https://www.levelshealth.com/
If you don’t want to deal with bizarre growth decisions just go with Veri. Same idea, no weird fencing.
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#27The Dexcom G7 (not yet released) is supposed to be able to connect directly to the Apple Watch. The current G6 requires the phone but does have a watch complication that displays your current trend and trend graph.
With the open source app xDrip, any Android watch has been able to act as a collector since G4 days already. With AndroidAPS you can even dose insulin directly from the watch.
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#28Sounds 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…
As a t1d who's been using a cgm for like 8 years at this point, having it there constantly is objectively better, and you normally don't notice the needle (needs a bit of fat though). Fairly routinely, I'll go a couple of days without because the installation is a bit of a pain, and my blood sugar is invariably worse on those days. A big part of it is the reduction in cognitive load devoted to managing your blood glu…
The article does mention closed loop systems.
> That's what Beta Bionics, amongst others, are focusing on. Their iLet® system literally bills itself as "a fully automated bionic pancreas".
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#29Friend of my wife, type 1, just 2 weeks ago died in his sleep from mismanaged blood sugar. He was only 37 and was otherwise very healthy - it was shocking, I never knew it was so dangerous and that mis measuring or forgetting before going to bed could have such dire consequences. I though it was like sleeping with your contacts in. This is a gap this tech could close, I hope it’s widely available soon - hopefully an…
Yes, it's tricky.
Low is much more dangerous than high...
As the saying goes, High glucose will kill you in 30 years, low gluclose in 30 minutes.
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#30Friend of my wife, type 1, just 2 weeks ago died in his sleep from mismanaged blood sugar. He was only 37 and was otherwise very healthy - it was shocking, I never knew it was so dangerous and that mis measuring or forgetting before going to bed could have such dire consequences. I though it was like sleeping with your contacts in. This is a gap this tech could close, I hope it’s widely available soon - hopefully an…
That's really sad and tragic. There are like 50, or some other large number, things that affect blood glucose levels and we control 2 or 3 of them(insulin, food, and exercise). Your wife's friend may have done everything correctly and still had blood glucose that was too low.
This is why I sleep so much better since getting a CGM, it's life changing because one can make data driven decisions that minimize risk and be alerted when it's time to pay attention. It helps take away cognitive load that lessons the risk of burnout too.