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My wife is type 1 and very needle phobic. Ok firstly you’re doing amazing. Celebrate each small win. See if your GP can refer you for CBT for phobias - this helped my wife a huge amount when she started living with me over 30 years ago. She still struggles especially with things like blood...

My wife is on 780G with guardian 4 - had nothing but problems with it - has ditched closed loop and back on manual - even then it suspends for way too long causing swinging. Guardian 4 are a lot less reliable and more out of range than the 3’s often when blood sugar is not changing dramatically...

Als diabettech.com is a great resource for closed loop systems

My wife has been on 780G and had nothing but problems with it. Medtronic customer service is terrible. Had major issues. The closed loop hybrid system is probably the most basic of the commercial options being bought in 3 rd party software which is getting on for being over 10 years old with...

Unfortunately my wife has Hashimoto’s thyroiditis as well so milk is definitely off the cards as an answer for lows - she’s had Diabetes for 40 years so well versed in controlling lows and highs generally. She is really unimpressed at how slow the 780g is in responding to trends. It really can’t...

My wife is on the 780 and it’s poor with highs or periods or illness for that matter. It’s old tech - the closed loop algorithm was ‘bought in’ from 3rd party developer about 7 years ago. General my wife finds it’s slow to respond especially to trends/highs/periods/illness with a lag of...

The app is not great on iOS or android- if you can avoid updating your phone both on iOS and android until the app is updated to support that version - Medtronic very slow to update and it’s a pretty buggy app. A lot of people have problems connecting phones and for the size of the company the...