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Blood Sugars, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, Diabetes Products, Diabetes Tech, Real Life DiabetesAn Initial Review of Basal IQ
Dexcom, Diabetes Products, Diabetes Tech, Pumping Insulin, Real Life Diabetes, Robot LifeDisclosure: I have a sponsorship agreement with Tandem Diabetes Care – details are on my disclosure page. This post is written with that bias in place. Tandem did not ask me to write this post. Neither did my pancreas, because that thing doesn’t do much. The hardest part about the Basal IQ update was waiting for my endo to sign…
Weird skin week continues! Welcome back. Sometimes I think that diabetes makes my skin extra weird, extra sensitive, extra … extra. Like the bit with the Dexcom rash. I’ve been writing about my skin’s over-sensitivity to whatever is in the Dexcom adhesive for several years. Here’s a look back at some of the archives: Dexcom Pros and Cons 36 Hours…
A Deep Dive into Tidepool Medtronic Support
Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, Diabetes Tech, Robot LifeEarlier this week, I heard about the big Medtronic update at Tidepool. They’ve been working on making it possible for Medtronic users to manage their data through Tidepool, and that support went live yesterday. President and CEO of Tidepool, Howard Look, stopped by SixUntilMe to talk about this new option from Tidepool and how the diabetes community’s approach to data…
Dexcom G6: A Few Weeks In
Blood Sugars, Dexcom, Diabetes Products, Diabetes Tech, Real Life Diabetes, Robot LifeIt’s been over a month (by a bit) of using the Dexcom G6, and I have second impressions. (First impressions are here.) REVISITING INSERTION. It doesn’t hurt to go in. I know I mentioned that the first time around but it’s a really big change from all of the other iterations of the Dexcom CGM product. The updated G6 insertion…
So yeah, I tried to restart the Dexcom G6 sensor. And it didn’t work. No offense, Dexcom. I respect your work and I love, love the data from this device. My health is, without fail, better for the introduction of a CGM into my life. But this shit is expensive, and cost is often a deterrent for folks trying to…
Disclosure: I received my Dexcom G6 as part of the initial PR roll out, once it was approved and available. I am also part of the Dexcom Warriors program. But my supplies all go through insurance and my deductible is gross. For more on my disclosures, click here. I wasn’t home when my Dexcom G6 kit arrived at the…
Beep, Beep, Beep!
Blood Sugars, Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes Poetry, Diabetes Tech, Pumping Insulin, Robot LifeOne of my son’s favorite books is Little Blue Truck. We have that mess memorized and can bust it out even without the book pages in hand. And every time my pump beeps, I think of the little black pump on my hips at all times. These two thoughts ended up in my mental blender this morning, thus, Little Black…
Managing Expectations with the Freestyle Libre System
Blood Sugars, Diabetes Products, Diabetes Tech[DISCLOSURE – PLEASE READ: The team at Abbott reached out to me and asked if I’d like to trial the Freestyle Libre system. I said yes. After my doctor approved a prescription for the device, Abbott sent out the scanning device and two sensors at no cost to me. This whole review needs that bias lens in place. Good? Good….
“Can I please have an iced coffee? No sweetener, please,” I said to the girl behind the counter at the coffee shop. The snow was falling fast outside, but she expertly kept her eyebrows steady at my request for an almost frozen beverage. “Sure thing.” Her hands deftly hit the right buttons on the ordering pad. Without looking up, she…
[DISCLOSURE – PLEASE READ: The team at Abbott reached out to me and asked if I’d like to trial the Freestyle Libre system. I said yes. After my doctor approved a prescription for the device, Abbott sent out the scanning device and two sensors at no cost to me. This whole review needs that bias lens in place. Good? Good….