AID Systems
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.
AID Systems
Fasting
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.
AID Systems
What Alerts Does Your System Actually Give You?
Pumps have many different features, each with their own bells and whistles. For some families the alert system is the deciding factor. Here is what every system offers, and — just as important — where the alert fires.
AID Systems
Where Should You Set Your Low Alert?
The alert goes off at 90 for the sixth time before lunch, and by then you are not really looking at it. On an automated system both a too-high and a too-low threshold carry a cost — and not the cost most people expect.
AID Systems
One Rise, Three Causes: Dawn Phenomenon, Foot-on-the-Floor, and Coffee
You wake up at 95, eat nothing, and twenty minutes later you are 125 and still climbing. Three separate things sit behind that rise — your internal clock, the moment your feet hit the floor, and the coffee — and each one is met differently.
twiist
The Pump Already Corrected — But I Want to Reach My Target Sooner
Two options to bring down a high quicker — one safer than the other.
AID Systems
When Your Pump "Learns" — Is That Always Good?
A system that learns sounds ideal. But what happens when it learns wrong?
Insulin Pumps
No Extended Bolus on the 780G?
Here's What One User Is Doing
Insulin Pumps
Different Pumps for Different People
Insulin Pumps
The Top 2 Pumps on the Market
A real-world comparison begins — I'm going in with an open mind.
Insulin Pumps
A Simple Miss — 3 Hours Without Insulin, Blood Sugar 280
A scenario only one AID system could have prevented.