Maco
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Medtronic 780G Update.
So my first training session on the 780G was last Thursday. It was a 3hr session to help dial in all your settings & to run through its features, we where also suppose to fit the guardian 3 sensor. Unfortunately due to some delays we never actually got round to fitting the sensor so I fitted it myself on Sunday instead of waiting till Thursday coming (14th of jan). I’ll give you a quick run through of what I’ve found so far.
6. This pump doesn't seem to like the gym! I set my temp target at 8.3 before training, have my pre workout & bolus for it. Go the gym, come home & boom im seeing numbers of 14-17mmol. On checking auto mode it doesnt give any micro basal or any auto corrective bolus. I am doing heavy weight training so my numbers will raise, but its strange not to see auto mode trying to stop it. Think when im lifting weights ill avoid the temp target.
Lastly from me, the pump can be quite aggressive. On MDI my carb ratios where 1:7, At the minute I am running 1:8.5 & still having regular hypos. This morning for example, readings had been a steady 7-8mmol all night into the morning. Did the bolus for my breakfast & my levels plummeted to 3.0, I always weigh out my food as sad as that is so my carb counting is pretty perfect.
All in all this pump is fantastic & once I get Dailed in with some new ratios & active insulin time I will be on the right tracks.
I will say, I’m still new to it all. So some of the things I’ve said could be wrong & others may be able to correct me.
So my first training session on the 780G was last Thursday. It was a 3hr session to help dial in all your settings & to run through its features, we where also suppose to fit the guardian 3 sensor. Unfortunately due to some delays we never actually got round to fitting the sensor so I fitted it myself on Sunday instead of waiting till Thursday coming (14th of jan). I’ll give you a quick run through of what I’ve found so far.
- The 780G now uses a Accu Check guide link meter. Like some have said you do need to do a few button presses before it sends your reading to the pump, you then also have to accept the BG reading on your pump. What I have found is that my old Caresens meter & the guardian 3 are always pretty close in readings but the Accu Check is around 1.5/2mmol higher 95% of the time.
- From what I can gather the bolus wizard has changed from the 670G, This is my first pump in 11 years so I can’t comment but from what others have said it’s different. If you don’t have a sensor fitted you have to go into the little blood drop icon & enter a BG reading. You then go back into bolus wizard where it’ll show your BG reading, you’ll then enter your carbs and bolus as normal. On the bolus wizard page you don’t have an option to enter a BG, it has to be done in the separate menu.
- This one annoys me the most. I fitted my sensor on Sunday, I’ve been told to leave it at least a week before going into automode so for now I’m still in manual mode. The pump still shows me the graph & gives me a SG reading, but in manual mode it doesn’t allow you to use a SG reading for a bolus. So again this means going to the blood drop icon, entering a reading then returning to bolus wizard. Now here is the niggle, every time you enter a BG reading on the 780G it calibrates the sensor with it. There’s no option like the 670G to not use the BG reading as a calibration. So if your felling risky & just enter your SG reading in the BG option your actually going to Calibrate your guardian with a sensor glucose reading, so if it’s out by a few mmol you could go hypo or hyper. I hope that makes sense.
- Now I have my guardian 3 set up, I have suspend before low set up with my low limit set at 3.8. My 780G seem to suspend soon as my reading hits 5.4Mmol, now I’m sure it does it because it senses I’m going to drop quite low but it can be annoying. Even if your bloods settle at around 5.0 it’ll still keep you suspended. Now unless you manually restart your pump you cant give a bolus. So today for example my pump was suspended and my reading was 5.0mmol, I was due to have my lunch but couldn’t give a quick bolus wizard as it was suspended. Me being new to the pump I didn’t feel comfortable manually restarting the basal. I now know suspend before low is only active on manual mode, I'm now in auto mode so don't have this issue.
6. This pump doesn't seem to like the gym! I set my temp target at 8.3 before training, have my pre workout & bolus for it. Go the gym, come home & boom im seeing numbers of 14-17mmol. On checking auto mode it doesnt give any micro basal or any auto corrective bolus. I am doing heavy weight training so my numbers will raise, but its strange not to see auto mode trying to stop it. Think when im lifting weights ill avoid the temp target.
Lastly from me, the pump can be quite aggressive. On MDI my carb ratios where 1:7, At the minute I am running 1:8.5 & still having regular hypos. This morning for example, readings had been a steady 7-8mmol all night into the morning. Did the bolus for my breakfast & my levels plummeted to 3.0, I always weigh out my food as sad as that is so my carb counting is pretty perfect.
All in all this pump is fantastic & once I get Dailed in with some new ratios & active insulin time I will be on the right tracks.
I will say, I’m still new to it all. So some of the things I’ve said could be wrong & others may be able to correct me.
