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60 days in: a comparison of two pumps

NB this is not teaching you what pumping is and expects you to be familiar with some of the terms.  It is a breakdown of the operational and design features of some of the insulin pumps on the market with an in depth view on the Accu-chek DTron, Early Medtronic Paradigm and Animas Vibe pumps. […]

Big changes

So the DTron is no more 🙁 I’ve been coping OKish on multiple daily injections of insulin and have (touch wood) finally got a combination which almost works… Time Actions 0640-0700 Test then potentially bolus now for breakfast at 0800 (or later depending on how high or low I am). 0800-0830 Long acting dose, insulatard, […]

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The outlook is not good. In 1993, on the back of a piece of paper I drew what I thought a pump should look like: a motor, a casing and a pen cartridge, some tubing and the cannula.  In 2002, I got my first pump and it looked like that, albeit with a 3ml cartridge […]

It’s the way you look at it

I have just finished listening to an interview of Tanni Grey-Thompson by Aled Jones: what a terrific person.  Someone I would definitely want to talk to if I ever met in a pub or on a train. One of the most interesting things Tanni talked about was when she got her first wheel-chair.  This isn’t […]

The figures matter

I’ve been a type 1 diabetic for a long time – I was diagnosed in the Silver Jubilee year, so do the math! Figures matter: my life is spent watching blood sugar results and ensuring they fall between the magic 4-8mmol/l (72-144mg/dl) to give me a great chance of not developing serious complications from diabetes.  […]

It’s not science….

If all is going well, there’s nothing unusual going on, diabetes can be  straightforward. The continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion device (an insulin pump to you and me) makes this easier by stripping out the least configurable and predictable part of insulin replacement therapy – the long acting insulin. Instead, your body receives a closer match […]

Writing an android app – going from JSP to Android app

I wrote the original pump tools back in 2002 as a JavaScript calculator.  As I moved into web service development, I ported the crude calculations library to a Java bean interface to a set of libraries.  I put a jsp front end to collect data from the user. This is great and one of the […]

Happy feet

I woke up on Wednesday morning and groaned at the latest “diabetes” story on the radio 4: Diabetes amputation rates show huge regional variation. Rather than teach the newly diagnosed that actually, checking your feet regularly (and if you have a diagnosis of neuropathy, daily) is an effective way  of picking up infections that may lead […]

Celebrating 90 years of insulin

This year celebrates 90 years since insulin was first given to a type 1 diabetic: before then the only treatment for patients was a strict starvation diet which prolonged lives by not more than a year in teenagers and much less in younger children. Often these children died from malnutrion as well as complications from […]