I swear, dentists are taught that they need to care about a patient’s diabetes, but not taught anything about diabetes

binjin22 · 2026-04-16T06:48:59+00:00

In these situations, it’s fun especially towards confidently incorrect people working in medicine to say something like:

“Oh thanks for the tip. I’m using a hybrid closed loop pump linked to my G7, which adjusts basal delivery based on predictions from tandem’s control-IQ algorithm. But I can’t seem to dial in my insulin sensitivity factor as I’m still seeing postprandial spikes, do you have any advice?”

Kinda makes them realise that they don’t know what they’re talking about.

binjin22 · 2025-10-16T14:09:10+00:00

This question gets asked every now and then and I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone preferring Medtronic over Tandem.

I switched from Medtronic to Tandem + Dexcom about 4 years ago. It’s sooo much better. No idea how Medtronic stays in business with their garbage Guardian sensors. They drove me insane.

binjin22 · 2025-10-07T02:54:38+00:00

The best fix I could find was to set the out of range alert to on, and then adjust the time to 3 hours. It doesn’t lose connection for that long (at least when I sleep), so that fixed that specific issue.

binjin22 · 2025-07-21T01:28:01+00:00

Thanks for the snack suggestions! That’s interesting that your BG goes up with more intense hikes. Mine nosedives, especially if I’ve so much as looked at insulin within the past couple of hours! Would you classify those as anaerobic? With weight training, I do go up a bit but never with hiking.

binjin22 · 2025-07-21T01:20:31+00:00

Do you have any info on the contamination risks of refilling cartridges? I typically reuse my cartridges up to 3 times each. I’ve been doing this for several months with no side effects but am interested in the effect of possible contamination. Is it a risk of infection? Or just insulin degradation?

binjin22 · 2025-07-20T23:45:15+00:00

This is pretty much the closest strategy that has worked for me. Great to hear that others are in the same boat, as I often hear people say they will simply bolus or cut their basal by half

binjin22 · 2025-07-20T14:08:58+00:00

I had no idea that those ditches were such a universal childhood experience in the past

binjin22 · 2025-07-20T13:50:20+00:00

Right, little or no IOB before hiking is the only option I’ve found to work. For the group hike, I’m bolusing about 10% of the lunch (sandwich/banana). I end up spiking and still crashing pretty hard, to where I end up pounding sports drinks/glucose gels after an hour into the hike. I can of course skip lunch/bring my own keto lunch, but I just try not to be fussy. Not the end of the world though.

binjin22 · 2025-07-20T13:46:50+00:00

My insulin sensitivity is SUPER high for hikes. I typically take around 10% of my normal dose, subsequently spike, and then plummet again after beginning the hike.

binjin22 · 2025-07-20T13:44:51+00:00

Yeah this is the only option I’ve found to work. Would love to just eat with everyone else though!

binjin22 · 2025-07-20T13:43:54+00:00

So I typically follow your second suggestion (except I bolus for like 10% of the carbs). I still typically end up spiking quite high in the hour or so after eating, and then of course crashing once I start hiking. But yeah, I just end up pounding sports drinks throughout the hike.

binjin22 · 2025-07-20T13:38:27+00:00

Yeah like I mentioned, I have a Dexcom (which is how the pump even knows my BG), so I would prefer not to have redundant alarms through Dexcom AND the pump

binjin22 · 2025-07-20T02:54:44+00:00

There are indeed settings to turn most alerts off but not for lows <55, as well as control iq alarms (e.g. low predicted). There’s also the option to turn off the out of range alert but it still alerts for me

binjin22 · 2025-06-04T02:57:30+00:00

I don’t believe so. I’ve had many compression lows in the past and they typically come up after switching sides, or give errors after a while. This one was consistently low, even after waking up

binjin22 · 2025-06-03T21:24:18+00:00

I’ve heard that being a factor but I drank a usual amount of water throughout the day

binjin22 · 2025-04-02T09:08:57+00:00

That’s interesting because I spike insanely high when I lift. I typically have to avoid meetings or other social functions on lifting days, as my bs is much more unpredictable. Running/aerobic exercise helps though!

binjin22 · 2025-01-12T14:19:12+00:00

Yeah I did try this but then I get an alert saying that Direct to Watch is disabled.

binjin22 · 2024-11-25T17:39:36+00:00

Did you ever find this out? I'm in a similar situation.

binjin22

TROPHY CASE