It’s an interesting observation and worth knowing about. The explosive decompression information is something I hope no never utilize.
On the other hand, they’re seeing just how bad things can get (sea level airport, completely full cartridge, presumably the FAA limit of internal cabin pressure at 8000’). What do typical numbers look like?
I never even half fill a cartridge, so I’m probably looking at only 1/3 of the effect or less. In my experience I need more insulin when I’m on an airplane (probably because of the lack of activity). So the shortfall in delivery when I get off matters, but I’ve never noticed it in comparison to several hours of enforced inactivity followed by suddenly walking again.
No, its confusing. Actual NON-DIABETICS, like runners in their 30’s with no family history or medical concerns are using the over the counter ones. It’s more wide spread that we might imagine. But the med device companies are actually marketing to them. I have see the ads. It’s really strange. I don’t think this fad lasts very long.
There are many things that hit blood sugar that most clinicians don’t know, and you would have to be on insulin to notice.
My sugar drops in the Shower. Heat either causes insulin to act faster, or more efficiently. I don’t know which.
Also eating fat along with carbs causes a decrease in insulin sensitivity where I once did an experiment, eating dry toast caused me to need 1.5 units to return to normal, but adding peanutbutter which is nearly all fat, doubles my insulin requirement.
A lot of people including doctors tell us to mix fat and carbs to get good control, but that makes it more difficult in practice, for me anyway.
Ketones, even the usual low levels of ketones from fasting and burning fat also slows down insulin sensitivity. So if you are fasting and your sugars are great, then you eat a small amount of carb and your sugar soars, it’s because the ketones affect your sensitivity to insulin.
So many different factors affect blood sugar, it makes my head spin.
I can eat the exact same meal 2 days in. Row and get different results.
Having a pump with an algorithm helps me for small corrections, but it can’t overcome those 200+ spikes that come from nowhere or the opposite drops for no reason, no reason that is easy to figure out most of the time.
Sometimes it’s a bad site from poor absorption more exercise less exercise, being a little sick or loss of appetite.
It’s an actual miracle that we can manage to stay in range when yo look at all the variables.
this is me too. In fact, it sometimes makes it hard to take a shower when I want to as my bg levels are too low and will bottom out so I have to wait until they are higher.
I know this was back in September, but there are those of us with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are on MDI or a pump. I am one. T2DM is progressive and while the Beta cells aren’t killed by the immune system, they die off from over secretion of insulin to combat cellular insulin resistance.
I am in my 34 year since diagnosis. 4 years ago I began MDI and while I didn’t think I qualified received a Tandem X2 pump in December 3 years ago. I have used Dexcom G6 and 7 for the last 4 years.
I tried to get some stats on both T1DM and T2DM using MDI or pumps. The NIH and other studies and reports tend to not differentiate between the two main types. They need a kick in the head. I believe that about 32,000 with T2DM are on basal/bolus insulin therapy. But who knows.
I have always rotated my sites including when I was on basal only. I do notice that I get faster response on the abdomen they other areas.
I just wanted to bring up that while there are more T1DMs using pumps, we with T2DM are not ZERO, but my C-Peptide is close to that. Having cellular insulin resistance which is ever changing is a challenge for us and for those with T1DM who unfortunately inherited the same gene variants.
This use to be called double diabetes but now I think it is T1DM with insulin resistance. However there is no code for that.
Well that’s enough pontification by this old man. I need to do some pedaling to increase my sensitivity to insulin.
