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Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by mattboyle »

mb7733 wrote: post #49

Great article! While I haven't done anything as involved I have found using technology to track health issues to be empowering myself. I'm curious about your thoughts on insulin pumps. I'm not very familiar but I know a few people with T1 that use them and seem happy with them. My understanding is that the idea is that they both monitor glucose levels and supply insulin to keep things stable. Have you considered them…

Pumps work alongside something like a libre and you’re correct they can deliver insulin.

Unfortunatley I’m not eligible for an insulin pump on the NHS so for now I’m sticking with injections. I do a good job of managing them this way so it works for me for now.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by Benjamin_Dobell »

brandonp0 wrote: post #40
martsa1 wrote: post #14

Nice write up! I stumbled across the Open Pancreas project a while back, may be of interest to techies with T1: https://openaps.org/

There's also Loop on the iOS side: https://github.com/LoopKit/Loop . I've been using it for 7 or 8 years. There's also several pumps that have closed loop capabilities built-in, but I've found that they try so hard to play it safe that they are less capable than running your own.

Agreed. My daughter (5) is using a G6 + TSlim X2 closed loop. The target blood glucose is 6.0 mmol/L and you can't decrease it. However, I haven't tried (and likely won't try) anything DIY since it's my daughter and not myself.

Despite this, it is nice whilst my daughter is at school, since some automated corrections (even if overly conservative) are certainly better than none — teachers generally won't administer corrections (but will bolus for food).

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by user_7832 »

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

Have you looked into third party apps? I’m very personally used the app diabox (on android), I’ve heard suggah (if I spelt it correct) also supports a nightscout link like diabox. However I’m not sure how these work with dexcoms.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by user_7832 »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #52
brandonp0 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also Loop on the iOS side: https://github.com/LoopKit/Loop . I've been using it for 7 or 8 years. There's also several pumps that have closed loop capabilities built-in, but I've found that they try so hard to play it safe that they are less capable than running your own.

Agreed. My daughter (5) is using a G6 + TSlim X2 closed loop. The target blood glucose is 6.0 mmol/L and you can't decrease it. However, I haven't tried (and likely won't try) anything DIY since it's my daughter and not myself. Despite this, it is nice whilst my daughter is at school, since some automated corrections (even if overly conservative) are certainly better than none — teachers generally won't administer co…

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).

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by user_7832 »

giantg2 wrote: post #16

I suspect that type 1 has an environmental cause/trigger in many cases. As an anecdote, I knew many kids from military families or live in close proximity to specific bases where some chemical contamination may exist who have endocrine system issues without any family history of them. I knew very few from other areas and backgrounds with similar issues. Edit: I'm curious if the people disagreeing with my musings have…

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted, environmental triggers eg from pollution are linked to autoimmune conditions. Any kind of excessive (oxidative) stress would increase the chances of it for that matter.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by AnonHP »

tibbydudeza wrote: post #48
hk1337 wrote: post #25

I could be mistaken but I believe both types of diabetes has no cure; however type 2 is MUCH MORE manageable with a proper diet?

Type 2 is called Insulin Resistance - basically your pancreas works fine but the cells in your body stops responding to the hormone that tells it to remove glucose from your blood leading to a dangerous build up. I use a drug called Metformin daily which slows down my digestive tract (you feel fuller after a meal longer like Ozempic), lowers the uptake of glucose in your gut and lowers glucose production in your live…

> That and a low carb diet is essential.

Not essential. There are people who manage it or even get into remission with high carb diets (high carb low fat) too. One common thread across all these diets is avoiding processed foods.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by Benjamin_Dobell »

user_7832 wrote: post #54
Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. My daughter (5) is using a G6 + TSlim X2 closed loop. The target blood glucose is 6.0 mmol/L and you can't decrease it. However, I haven't tried (and likely won't try) anything DIY since it's my daughter and not myself. Despite this, it is nice whilst my daughter is at school, since some automated corrections (even if overly conservative) are certainly better than none — teachers generally won't administer co…

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 the constant changing lifestyle of kids, all data needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I think we're being woken by high alarms less often, but she just seems to be fairly high (just under 10 mmol/L) much more often. There are of course still run away highs much worse than that (don't want to misrepresent the situation!) and I guess they're somewhat mitigated by ControlIQ, but it definitely doesn't stop them outright, and manual corrections are still required if you want the high resolved in under 2 hours.

Re: How I keep myself alive using Golang

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Post by princevegeta89 »

kreek wrote: post #21
princevegeta89 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a good batteries-included framework for Go, like Ruby on Rails or Django?

While not quite as batteries-included as Rails, Fiber made the most sense to my Ruby/Rack brain.

Thank you!
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