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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I’m almost always more informed of the reported advancements in T1 treatments than my doc. So I usually bounce ideas off the doc for his input.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I am my own advocate. I read about new devices and always investigate side effects of any new medication before starting. I usually bring up but then have good discussion with Endo before making decisions.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      With my endo, I usually have to ask. With the Diabetes Educator, she'll make the suggestion first. They're both very aware that I'm dependent on insurance covering the majority of the cost.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I wouldn't say that my T1D healthcare provider OFTEN suggests medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to my diabetes management, but they do SOMETIMES suggest options available to me. (I was privileged to be the first person, in the area that I live, to be offered CSII (Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion, or pump technology) to help control my diabetes. This was after my endocrinologist attended a diabetes conference in the United States where a former Miss America, Nicole Johnson, was demonstrating a Medtronic/MiniMed insulin pump. He asked her for more information on how these pumps work, mentioning that I had extreme difficulty in controlling my diabetes, with me spending as much time in hospital as I was at home when I was taking multiple daily injections (MDI). On his return to the UK, he offered me the opportunity to 'trial' the pump, which I accepted. This was in 1989.)
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      No, I was the one who had diabetes
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      I fell in love with an insulin-dependent Type 2 20 years ago. There’s something terribly romantic about taking Lantus together at the end of the day.
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      I never knew of anyone who had diabetes, type 1 or 2 before I was married. I became a T1D after I was married.
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      I answered “no.” I don’t think my girlfriend at diabetes children’s camp when I was 13 counts. While I think there would be a lot I would have in common with a partner with T1D, I wouldn’t want that to be what brought us together, and I don’t think it would keep us together.
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      went on one date with a T1D. she had been dx'd as a child (I was dx'd at 43) so she was very old school. she ragged on me during the entire date about my menu choices, my carbs estimation for my shot and she lost her mind when I ordered a Corona! punchline is that my sugar was less than 150 when I went to sleep.
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      When I was married, diabetes was not in the picture at all. All I knew was an uncle who died in 1929 because he refused injections. I developed LADA in my 40's, followed by my husband with Type 2, then my two daughters who had PCOS and Type 2, then my son with Type 2. Enough.
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      I have been married since 1985. My wife Susan does not have either type 1 or 2 diabetes, but rather type 3 diabetes- spouse or mate of someone with T1D...:) She has been my guardian for night lows, though she has rarely had to intervene since I started CGM in 8-2006.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I wouldn't say that my T1D healthcare provider OFTEN suggests medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to my diabetes management, but they do SOMETIMES suggest options available to me. (I was privileged to be the first person, in the area that I live, to be offered CSII (Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion, or pump technology) to help control my diabetes. This was after my endocrinologist attended a diabetes conference in the United States where a former Miss America, Nicole Johnson, was demonstrating a Medtronic/MiniMed insulin pump. He asked her for more information on how these pumps work, mentioning that I had extreme difficulty in controlling my diabetes, with me spending as much time in hospital as I was at home when I was taking multiple daily injections (MDI). On his return to the UK, he offered me the opportunity to 'trial' the pump, which I accepted. This was in 1989.)
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I think my healthcare providers learn about new medications and devices at about the same time that I do. This wasn't the case when I was first diagnosed, pre-internet. Back then, I always looked forward to seeing my CDE because I knew I'd come away with something to make my life easier/better.
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      If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
      I have been married since 1985. My wife Susan does not have either type 1 or 2 diabetes, but rather type 3 diabetes- spouse or mate of someone with T1D...:) She has been my guardian for night lows, though she has rarely had to intervene since I started CGM in 8-2006.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I may already be on the best medications and devices available to me.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I wouldn't say that my T1D healthcare provider OFTEN suggests medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to my diabetes management, but they do SOMETIMES suggest options available to me. (I was privileged to be the first person, in the area that I live, to be offered CSII (Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion, or pump technology) to help control my diabetes. This was after my endocrinologist attended a diabetes conference in the United States where a former Miss America, Nicole Johnson, was demonstrating a Medtronic/MiniMed insulin pump. He asked her for more information on how these pumps work, mentioning that I had extreme difficulty in controlling my diabetes, with me spending as much time in hospital as I was at home when I was taking multiple daily injections (MDI). On his return to the UK, he offered me the opportunity to 'trial' the pump, which I accepted. This was in 1989.)
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      beth nelson likes your comment at
      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      I think my healthcare providers learn about new medications and devices at about the same time that I do. This wasn't the case when I was first diagnosed, pre-internet. Back then, I always looked forward to seeing my CDE because I knew I'd come away with something to make my life easier/better.
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      I had to answer “other” because I just got a new endo after my other one retired so I’ve only met with him once. Too early to discuss new technology or medications.
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      I’m almost always more informed of the reported advancements in T1 treatments than my doc. So I usually bounce ideas off the doc for his input.
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    If you use a hybrid closed loop system, which of these potential benefits of these systems has been the most impactful for you?

    Home > LC Polls > If you use a hybrid closed loop system, which of these potential benefits of these systems has been the most impactful for you?
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    If you have never used a hybrid closed loop system, which of the below potential benefits of these systems would be most important to you?

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    At what point, on average, do you typically start treating a high (assuming your blood glucose is not rising rapidly)?

    Sarah Howard

    Sarah Howard (nee Tackett) has dedicated her career to supporting the T1D community ever since she was diagnosed with T1D while in college in May 2013. Since then, she has worked for various diabetes organizations, focusing on research, advocacy, and community-building efforts for people with T1D and their loved ones. Sarah is currently the Senior Marketing Manager at T1D Exchange. Sarah and her husband live in NYC with their cat Gracie. In her spare time, she enjoys doing comedy, taking dance classes, visiting art museums, and exploring different neighborhoods in NYC.

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    22 Comments

    1. TEH

      Wait, we only get to pick only one? All the top 5 for me. Hybrid closed loop has helped in all of these ways. I didn’t know what TIR was untill I went on CGM. I’m waiting for FDA to approve the 780G with a auto bolis capability to take the next step.

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      1. TEH

        780G with better sensors.

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    2. Andrew Stewart

      My one choice is the elimination of severe hypoglycemic events caused by fluctuating basal needs. My overnight Lows have ended. Hybrid closed loop systems are hame changers.

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      1. Andrew Stewart

        Hybrid closed loop systems are game changers. 😁

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    3. George Lovelace

      With Tandem X2 with CIQ I can completely eliminate overnight Lows and resulting Highs from Bounce

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    4. Drina Nicole Jewell

      There have been so many benefits. More time in range. Less highs after meals, way less lows. I can do my chores without severe crashes. Grocery shopping isn’t dangerous anymore. I spend less time on management. I sleep uninterrupted at night- I’m fact my whole family sleeps uninterrupted at night.

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    5. Cindy DeLano

      Sleeping through the night without highs or lows has been the biggest benefit of both DIY Loop and Tandem CIQ

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    6. karolinamalecki7@gmail.com

      Sleeping through the night is my favorite benefit. Last night I must have miscounted my dinner and I was tired so I went to bed shortly after eating. I spiked to 160 (my loop gave me 4 extra units, so that’s how I know I miscounted carbs) & then brought me down and I woke up in the 80s. Without a closed loop I would have had a horrible night of sugar and sleep last night (DIY Loop).

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    7. Patricia Kilwein

      Right now for me it’s not having to stick my fingers 7-10 times a day! There are many more great things about it but that’s my plus!

      1 year ago Log in to Reply
    8. Joan Fray

      My answer is really all of the above. Nuff said.

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    9. Bob Durstenfeld

      I like the Tandem Control IQ for the reduced mental load.

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    10. Janis Senungetuk

      All of them. Tandem’s Control-IQ has eased the burden of glucose management. I now sleep without fear of a crashing low during the night. Grocery shopping and going up and down two flights of stairs for laundry is no longer a hurried rush to complete. High bg spikes after dinner are far less of a worry. It’s made a tremendous improvement in my quality of life.

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      1. Daniel Bestvater

        Tandem Control IQ has done an amazing job for me at night. Virtually no nighttime hypoglycaemic events and 90% of the time I wake up between 5-6.5(90-117). If I’m at all active during the day I must turn it off or it will bolus/basal me into hypoglycaemia.

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    11. Don (Lucky) Copps

      All of the above

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    12. Janice B

      I use the Tandem with Control IQ and it helps with time in range. I just wish the algorithm was able to me more personalized or learned based on each individual instead of being set. I have found that the algorithm is not robust enough.

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    13. AnitaS

      Definitely not going super low or as often are probably my biggest advantages having the closed loop system (Tandem and Dexcom). I must add that having the night glucose control (together with adjusting basal rates for the dawn phenomena) have kept me from waking with high blood sugars several days out of the week.

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    14. lis be

      insurance doesn’t cover it

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    15. Donna Condi

      My Tandem with CIQ has lowered my A1c and gives me more time in range and keeps me from going too high and too low while I am sleeping. But the fact that it takes less effort to me to achieve those things is what makes the biggest difference to me. Before I got this pump I felt like my diabetes was a second job that I had to focus on 100% of the time all day every day without time off. Now my pump handles my diabetes in the background and I just live my life.

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    16. Greg Felton

      Sleeping through the night. Due to all of the above.

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    17. PamK

      I answered “N/A” because I no longer use a hybrid closed loop system. I tried one @ two years ago. My blood sugars were all over the place. Every time the system tried to correct for a low, I’d end up going high because it suspended my insulin for too long – – no way to adjust that setting! When I went high, the system over-corrected and I ended up going low. My A1C also went up from a 6.8 to a 7.6. So, I decided to stop using it and try to get my settings straightened out because obviously something wasn’t right.
      My settings are good now. In fact, I’ve even had several days where I was 90% in range! Unfortunately, the only way for me to do this is to NOT use a closed loop. The settings that have been approved for them keep my blood sugar too high – my normal is 80 – 100, not 120!

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    18. LizB

      I tried using it when I got my Minimed 670g pump but didn’t like how high it kept me. Currently on the 770g and I will not try again until either the 780 is approved or I move to a different pump company.

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    19. Dylan Sutton

      All of the top 5, plus less interrupted sleep, and much more comprehensive information about what the pump is doing and why.

      Managing a T1D child is SO much easier with HCL, and especially with a DIY system like Loop or AAPS.
      -The system is controlled from a mobile phone app with a much nicer user interface than any pump offers.
      -Everything is much more configurable – targets, dosing strategy (e.g. below 120 adjust basal rate, above 120 deliver boluses), overrides for activity, alerts and alarms
      -ALL the data is visible (both locally and remotely): BG, carbs, boluses, basal rates, active overrides (that can be set to affect basal rate, BG target, ISF and ICR), BG predictions, so a parent/carer can make better informed decisions about treatment when necessary.
      -Far fewer interventions are needed as the Loop automatically boluses or reduces basal to keep BG in target.
      -When interventions are required, Loop allows you to set overrides remotely, and some branches (FreeAPS-X, AAPS) even let you bolus remotely

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