Fasting on Yom Kippur — Part 3: Why Fasting Is Risky for Someone With Type 1 Diabetes
Blood sugar is the part we have tools for. The real danger is a rise in acid that no home device can measure — and a number nobody can give you.
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How Do I Tell My Pump I'm Going to Be Inactive?
Every system has a setting for being more active than usual. Almost none of them have one for the opposite — and sitting still for a few hours changes how your insulin works.
ווי אזוי זאג איך דעם פאמפ אז איך וועל זיצן שטיל?
יעדע system האט אן איינשטעלונג פאר ווען מען איז מער אקטיוו ווי געווענליך. כמעט קיינער האט נישט קיין איינשטעלונג פארן פארקערטן פאל — און זיצן שטיל פאר עטליכע שעה טוישט ווי אזוי אייער אינסולין ארבעט.
Weekly Digest for the Week of August 30–September 4
The whole week in one place. Three parts of the Yom Kippur series, the alert chart for every pump system, and Friday's Forum.
Friday Feedback Forum — No Plan at All, a Pump That Keeps Books, and a Year Worth Marking
Three letters. A member corrects me about who was allowed to fast in the 1970s. A second explains why an unannounced fast carb throws the prediction off. And a wife asks how to mark a year since diagnosis.