CHANGING MY PUMP AND LIBRE SENSOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SLOWLY.

[mark king]

Hello all.

After one year plus of using a combo of a Libre 2 sensor and a Omnipod Dash pump with which we have had very good results and quite a bit of improvement in my A1c figures it's time to upgrade.
Bearing that in mind we discussed what Tech steps could improve my control even better.

STEP1/ Change from my Libre 2 over to a Dexcom G6, done as of 19th October this year.
I am running both sensors just now to compare and build confidence but so far I am very pleased. Special note is that that the G6 has a simple compare and set to a finger prick test strip should you wish to CALIBRATE the sensor more precisely.

STEP 2/ Shortly to change from my Omnipod Dash over to a Omnipod 5 pump.
This will allow for direct tubeless and wireless sensor to pump communications. This will mean that with this combo as my bg goes up the sensor will instruct the pump to add more insulin and if my bg drops it will reduce my insulin input, sounds very good.
I'll be interested to see how quickly the sensor to pump grab control of any rises or drops in my bg readings.

Is any one already doing this and if so what advice do you have?

www.omnipod.com/en-gb/omnipod-5-and-dexcom-g6

Best

 

[SB2015]

Hi @mark king
I am looping (using a sensor which chats to my pump and sorts out basal insulin as necessary) but on a different system. I know that there are others looping with the Omnipod and will let them fill you in on that system.

Whichever system you use I think most people find that they have to think about their diabetes a lot less.
My biggest bonus is sleep at night. I rarely get woken up by the pump and it uses its automatic corrections to sort out any highs lows and I usually wake on target with a nice flat line from about 2:00 am. Bliss.

During the day the adjustments generally reduce my work but these do not keep up with big changes happening and sometimes needs a bit of help from me. This still reduces the amount I do and when I have to get involved, or pushed back into manual for some reason, it just reminds me how much the loop does for me.

I look forward to hearing how you get on.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

I'll be interested to see how quickly the sensor to pump grab control of any rises or drops in my bg readings.

As I understand it you'll still be expected to give at least some input for eating meals and significant exercise, so the looping is more about smoothing things out, though different systems handle the details differently.

I get the impression that an important part of getting used to such a system is learning what you can (and should) leave to the system to deal with and when it's better to give some input.

 

[Bloden]

I’m really hoping I can switch to a HCL sometime soon. Keep us posted @mark king - I’d very much like to hear how you get on.
Good luck!