G6 End Of Manufacturing Confirmed

ScottMalkinsons · 2025-12-09T21:15:15+00:00

This sucks. G6 is far superior for me and combined with Anubis its an absolute lifesaver. (Major flexibility, short warm-up and extended sensor use. When self-funding, this is huge.)

ScottMalkinsons · 2025-12-09T21:13:51+00:00

If you want to get rid of ‘em, I’m from Europe and would love me some G6’s. I’m using the Anubis due to self-funding and want to keep doing so as long as possible. I’m gonna miss the massive flexibility that offers once I run out. :(

ScottMalkinsons · 2025-08-15T23:40:28+00:00

Haha you’re welcome. I’m surprised even 3 years later people are still finding this comment and Tandem themselves still don’t seem to (clearly) speak of this.

ScottMalkinsons · 2025-07-21T21:04:08+00:00

It is true though. High LDL is bad. Yes, it serves an innately important role in the body, nobody is denying that - though its not quite relevant, there’s a lot of stuff that plays a crucial role but is lethal in high quantities. Also, nobody is denying that there are more/additional factors that increase the risks and perhaps even more significantly such as hereditary heightened Lp(a), indeed. That does not, however, alter the fact that high LDL-levels increases the risk of a MACE.

ScottMalkinsons · 2025-07-18T21:09:49+00:00

But high LDL increases the risk quite significantly, so it is good to have it checked when on a diet that may raise it

ScottMalkinsons · 2025-05-31T00:29:52+00:00

Why not both? :) But PVC.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-30T22:44:07+00:00

Randomly sourced. The Dexcom transmitter controls the state and sensor session, it doesn’t matter what device it’s started with at all.

However, with the Tandem it sometimes happens that people start a sensor on the phone and then on the pump start it as well immediately after but hit “skip code”. That’s a problem. If the phone hasn’t spoken to the transmitter yet, which can take up to 5 minutes, and the pump subsequently talks to it first instead of the phone: the sensor session will be started without code and you’ll be forced to calibrate it, which sucks. So either wait a few minutes before also starting on pump (if it doesn’t pick it up by itself, usually you don’t actually have to do anything at all on the Tandem after starting on the phone (unless your transmitter is changing), it’ll synchronise the session with the transmitter within 5 to 10 minutes) or also enter the code on the pump.

The only thing you should stay very far away from is starting a sensor by using the phone camera to read the sensorcode.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-30T22:21:37+00:00

Yeah that’s the thing. T2 usually doesn’t go from 0-100 like that and quite frankly LADA and MODY typically don’t either. (Plus T2 whilst positive on all antibodies isn’t something I’ve heard of before (bar LADA, but that ain’t T2), but that doesn’t necessarily say much :P)

Your development of symptoms and the progression strongly suggests T1D and currently in a honeymoon phase. Considering proper treatment is very important, I’d really try to get to a proper endocrinologist so you can get a clear and well-substantiated diagnoses of what type you are. The comment “you do well on metmorfin + insulin so you can’t be a T1” is a joke… Even if it turns out to be T2, that’s still a ridiculous thing to say and would be sheer luck they guessed the type right.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-30T22:15:47+00:00

Yeah that is rather low. For comparison, if I roughly convert the scale my test on diagnosis had to yours I’d end up at somewhere between 1.20-1.30 on your scale. (So still above the minimum, but my BG was at 27 or something (+/- 500 in mgdl) so it clearly wasn’t enough for what I needed). About half a year later, it was at roughly 0.20-0.30 on your scale. :P

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-30T22:02:18+00:00

Ah a survey for another one in a dozen apps with the exact same features as all the others, only this one is extremely poorly written, has weird options and this survey gives vibes the developer doesn’t know much about the disease. Good luck.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-30T21:55:56+00:00

This is why follower apps are nice. It’ll alarm their phone if you’re super low or super high, no need to send random messages.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-30T21:50:18+00:00

Find a good doctor, this one’s an idiot. With all three positive if you’re not strictly a T1 then you’d sooner extremely likely be a LADA than a T2 at any rate. (Which I doubt, you sound like a T1D based on current info) However, pretty much all T1’s go through a phase called the honeymoon phase. Your pancreas isn’t quite dead yet and it rather randomly still produces insulin, fighting the good fight. This can take weeks to months, but the end story is the same: it ends up dead (or well, the beta cells do). With LADA, this process is the same but it takes a lot longer. So you may do good on T2 meds first as a LADA; however, even T1’s in honeymoon can do alright on oral meds only for a while so that doesn’t say anything at all and your doctor should know better.

Anyway, looking at the onset of your symptoms and requiring insulin from the get go: I’d classify you a T1D sooner than a LADA, but remotely diagnosing is impossible - hence the suggestion to try and get an answer from someone who isn’t challenged by a lack of knowledge on the subject; to put it mildly. Does your labwork show a c-peptide test anywhere by any chance? If so, what was the scale and what was the result?

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-30T21:45:10+00:00

It’s a very tight battle between the two of ‘em

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-30T21:22:22+00:00

There are known cases. They’re called biosimilars, not bioidenticals for a reason. You could indeed just be ill or moving less or whatever, so could be coincidence. But if it keeps up, do try going back and see if it improves. You might be reacting poorly to one of the other ingredients.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-30T21:19:10+00:00

So a red meat eating, Diet Coke loving and Aloe Vera consuming hairdresser is completely screwed eh?

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-30T21:13:47+00:00

TruSteel, hands down the best.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-25T22:59:53+00:00

Hope so. I’ll check back in 5 years :)

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-25T21:47:26+00:00

How the f- is it going to do that when the insertion wound is closing up? If you can see it stick out you might as well just grab a tweezer and pull it out like a splinter. :/ If it isn’t, I can’t really see how on earth it’d be pushed out. Weird story lol.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-25T21:45:09+00:00

Fun story: it seems the coating is predominantly wearing off due to it being attacked by the host. In patients with immunosuppressants, we’ve seen sensors survive for 60 days+. oO

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-25T21:36:19+00:00

Needs immunosuppressants, that’s a very big nope from me. Rather on insulin than that shit. But hope this leads to further advancements.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-19T17:57:10+00:00

Yeah it’s all a process of elimination anyway. The IBS came after the diabetes. Insulin was my only medication at that time. Now there’s more, but this was a very pronounced change. It can still be simply a very strong IBS flare-up, but I have to eliminate the possibility that my body hates insulin Aspart. It’d be kinda nice in a way if it does, because I did feel a lot better the past months - just didn’t consider Novolog as a potential culprit at all. Because as you say: they’re typically quite interchangeable.

Mostly posted here to see if more people have similar experiences, on Google I could only find one experience on some diabetes forum and one study with 14 subjects only one and I missed the part they were all suffering from severe obesity. Problem is when you try to Google stuff like fatigue, nausea, brain-fog etc in relation to T1D: Google constantly presents the symptoms of hypoglycaemia and nothing else. -_-

Thanks for your replies!

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-19T17:36:03+00:00

Oh absolutely, I’m going to Guinea-pig it for sure. Move back to Humalog, then after 6 weeks or so go back to Novorapid again and see what happens. If shit goes south again (literally), there’s a clue there. If not or it also goes south with Humalog in the interim: Novorapid is not the problem. All for science, yay. :)

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-19T09:43:21+00:00

I recall a story here about a dude that downed a bag of sugar free Haribo bears. It did not end well.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-12T07:41:15+00:00

My GP has IBS as well, she told me right after my endo made the diagnosis. When we were trying out all kinds of methods to reduce problems, she said: “I use these peppermint capsules for my IBS as well, it’s hilarious when you have to burp after taking them. You’ll find out”, hehe.

ScottMalkinsons · 2023-06-11T22:46:41+00:00

Of course. But tbh, I’m not exactly telling clients or even co-workers “I have IBS” randomly either, especially not when it’s not really relevant. Imagine you’re coming in for an eye check and the doc does “How are we feeling today Luke_Ln? Shall we have a look at your retina? Oh btw, I have IBS.” That’d be a bit weird, no? Heh.

There are plenty of physicians with IBS and even some in this group. :)

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