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Likewise. If I can make it past 9am, I know I can fast till 2 or 3pm without much trouble. Related rant: I wish I could get my hands on one of those fancy cont

Likewise. If I can make it past 9am, I know I can fast till 2 or 3pm without much trouble. Related rant: I wish I could get my hands on one of those fancy continuous glucose monitors to correlate my findings. Damn hassle in the US with prescription and all.

bkfunk 4y ago
Not cheap, but check out https://www.levelshealth.com/ https://www.levelshealth.com/
- PcChip 4y ago
  Rant: I hate everything about that website, it shows so much marketing yet all I want to see is what the device looks like and how it works
UI_at_80x24 4y ago
I'm Canadian and recently diagnosed diabetic, and my doctor gave me one of out of his 'free sample' box. It worked great at first (for a few days) then it stopped working. I assume I had banged it too much so I went to the pharmacy and bought one (no prescription needed) and had the pharmacist apply it. It cost ~$200. That one stopped working after 2 days. So I go back into the pharmacy to request a new one and they said: Call the number on the box, they will send you a new one. So it happens often enough that they know the little arm-patch devices are not dependable. This was not one of the fancy kinds that are usually integrated with an insulin pump. It applied to the back of my arm. Now I poke my finger 2-5 times a day. It was nice having data on my phone that I could look at, but that data was still locked to my device and not exportable so it was worthless. I use Google Sheets to keep track, and I can do it anywhere AND do something useful with the data.
- snthd 4y ago
  >that data was still locked to my device and not exportable Look at the hardware lists of open source projects in this space: https://openaps.readthedocs.io/en/master/docs/Gear%20Up/CGM.html https://openaps.readthedocs.io/en/master/docs/Gear%20Up/CGM.... https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Module/module.html#bg-source https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Module/module.ht...

bkfunk 4y ago

Not cheap, but check out https://www.levelshealth.com/ https://www.levelshealth.com/

PcChip 4y ago
Rant: I hate everything about that website, it shows so much marketing yet all I want to see is what the device looks like and how it works

UI_at_80x24 4y ago

I'm Canadian and recently diagnosed diabetic, and my doctor gave me one of out of his 'free sample' box. It worked great at first (for a few days) then it stopped working. I assume I had banged it too much so I went to the pharmacy and bought one (no prescription needed) and had the pharmacist apply it. It cost ~$200. That one stopped working after 2 days. So I go back into the pharmacy to request a new one and they said: Call the number on the box, they will send you a new one. So it happens often enough that they know the little arm-patch devices are not dependable. This was not one of the fancy kinds that are usually integrated with an insulin pump. It applied to the back of my arm. Now I poke my finger 2-5 times a day. It was nice having data on my phone that I could look at, but that data was still locked to my device and not exportable so it was worthless. I use Google Sheets to keep track, and I can do it anywhere AND do something useful with the data.

snthd 4y ago
>that data was still locked to my device and not exportable Look at the hardware lists of open source projects in this space: https://openaps.readthedocs.io/en/master/docs/Gear%20Up/CGM.html https://openaps.readthedocs.io/en/master/docs/Gear%20Up/CGM.... https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Module/module.html#bg-source https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Module/module.ht...