The good thing with middle age is that the younger generation can be quite gullible.I had an amusing conversation with a dietician from my DAFNE course who asked about the libre/blucon/xdrip rig, "is this, you know, legal?"
As a middle aged guy who is now thinking ahead to how my retirement is going to pan out, I quite like the idea that I'm running some dodgy, cutting edge, illegal stuff on my arm!
The next edition of Grand Theft Auto is going to have a character wired up with this sort of stuff...
@Robinredbreast . Sounds like tomorrow is already planned. Sounds like a very lucky young lady, tv, cake and a great mum.
I’m doing good. Finally moved and settled in our new bungalow, stress personified prior to the actual move but compared to your past few months I had it easy.
Really nice to see you back. After all you are the founder of the best thread on the forum.
I was nowhere near tempted until my latest Glimp experience (i’m an Android gal so no xDrip+ for me) which is certainly better than the LibreLink (i’ve been running both some of the time so have a chance to compare). However, I still find it lacking and not accurate enough.
I work on a network performance management tool that allows the user to do all sorts of alerting, baselining, graphing, etc which I would like to see on some of the CGM apps. For example, alert if I am below 5.0 and the trend over the last 15 minutes is falling faster than 1 unit every 30 minutes.
I think one problem for me is that I am rarely “stable”. My BG falls quickly when I do cardio and can rise quickly when I eat (if I haven’t pre bolused far enough ahead). As a result, I usually feel hypo or hyper before the alert (which is one reason why I want the combined conditions) and the poor device isn’t sure what to use for calibration.
If I could get the NHS to fund the Libre, even occasionally, I would think more seriously about getting a Miao Miao to “play” with.
Dexcom has the fast rising and falling but it ignores the starting (or ending) values.
I wonder why there is more on the iPhone, most techies I know are anti-Apple because they stole one of the open source Linux distributions and I’d expect the geeks writing these apps to care about these things as much as the market share.
The good thing with middle age is that the younger generation can be quite gullible.
Dexcom has the fast rising and falling but it ignores the starting (or ending) values.
I wonder why there is more on the iPhone, most techies I know are anti-Apple because they stole one of the open source Linux distributions and I’d expect the geeks writing these apps to care about these things as much as the market share.
I had an amusing conversation with a dietician from my DAFNE course who asked about the libre/blucon/xdrip rig, "is this, you know, legal?"
Predictive curves based on insulin/carb ratios and insulin sensitivity throughout the day.
Those predictions are a really powerful tool in dealing with our messy little T1 friend.
They're like a bolus wizard on steroids - we can sort of almost see the future.
Paying a bit of attention to the sort of stuff xdrip tells us about pre-bolusing, how the predictions look,, has been hugely valuable for me.
Well, have you read the Ts+Cs for what we're using? Big letters strongly telling us all to definitely not even slightly do what we're doing with them
(I know why they say that, it just amuses me)
When I was at the mandatory libre induction session for getting it free on script, I ended up talking to a guy who was looping off-plan.
We both said, "risks, they're talking to us about risks? We inject stuff every day which might kill us if we get it wrong, do they really think we don't know how to assess risk?"
And they have no appreciation of science fiction where the number 42 is the answer to everything!!They’re rather good at peeing in our bonfires, aren’t they? Well done, that’s an awesome HbA1c
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