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Re:The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes by steveklabnik on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:52PM (#30379179)
> It's abit like monitoring traffic load and adding more servers as you go, except too many servers kill you.

Not even just that, but with fairly primitive monitoring tools. The built-in stuff for Dexcom can only alert on highs or lows, not on things like the rate of change, which would be much more useful IMHO.

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Re:The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes by ksaun on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:18PM (#30380084)
The Dexcom G6 is capable of alerts for rate of change, but it's about what the rate was, not what it will be. It still can be helpful.

(When looking at the app, there are "trend arrows," also, but they unfortunately are misleading in some situations. Often looking at the data points can give you a sense of your situation, though.)

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Re:The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes by steveklabnik on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:49PM (#30380382)
TIL that this must be in the main app somewhere, but not Follow. (and yeah, the arrows are all over the place, sometimes different between Follow and the main app... the data points is the best, for sure.)
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Re:The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes by pimeys on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:32AM (#30382762)
There are open source apps such as xdrip that can alert on a trend change, and androidaps that turns off insulin delivery way before you get to a hypo.

The official one from Dexcom is not very good.

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Re:The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes by steveklabnik on Friday February 18, 2022 @11:24AM (#30387718)
Yeah, if you're technical, there's options. But if you're not, it can be harder.
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