So we finally got control IQ in Australia this week.
I have a few questions I can’t seem to work out:
When CIQ kicks in, how do you know how much reduction or increase it applied. There is nothing obvious I can see. I checked the pump status screen and i guess you can work it out by looking at that figure and then going into your pump settings to find what the setting should have been. The pump status screen is hard to access, its too tiny at the top.
What are those square boxes on the pump screen along the bottom of the graph. The light blue ones, sometimes i see it join to another blue box. I presume its an indication of CIQ but no idea what its for.
When CIQ suspends the Basal, is there a way I can override that?
On the pump screen, where the IOB is listed, sometimes, the duration left is not shown, why?
On BIQ, when BG starts rising, insulin suspension is lifted immediately, But with CIQ, even though my sugar is increasing, its still in suspension mode. I think this would likely cause me some issues with post meal readings because its too slow to react.
Tandem could have done more user interface studies. There are a lot of things I think could have easily been better thought out -
For example
I think the symbols could be more differentiated, a light blue B and a dark blue B icon completely does not help me remember which is which.
The marking are not intuitive enough. When insulin suspends, it marks it with a red line which is great, I think it should do the same when CIQ kicks in on the graph with another colour to make it more intuitive to tell whether it was a basal change or an auto bolus.
Are you using the T:Connect app? I usually just check there for most of the things you mentioned, rather than pump.
Most of the data is easier to see on app.
IOB, current and past basal rates, cgm bg on graph, last bolus, time in range, battery status, cartridge level.
On pump screen, the bars on bottom line (you refer to as boxes) are to show the time segments. So 1 hr view has one bar, screen shows 1 box (segment) for each 30 min period. On the 6,12,24, the bars just give indicator to estimate the time/hour aligned to trend. To change 1,3,6,12,24 view, press the X HRS icon. It will make more sense. Note this can be done even without unlocking screen.
Pressing top right gives a summary current status.
No not the vertical lines, there is a tiny box almost like a dot at the bottom… its a blue box. I haven’t seen it in the manuals or videos. It may also be a new version feature. Apparently we are the first to get this latest version of CIQ. Any connection line run horizontally from box to box.
Yes, by turning off CIQ (in the “My Pump” menu). Just remember to turn it back on again when you want it.
That’s a shame. It displays more information in a better format. You can see at a glance autocorrect boluses and basal changes. I’m perplexed as to why they wouldn’t allow it in Australia. It is a phone app that shows data. It doesn’t control the pump. Perhaps you could ask Tandem about allowing you to use it.
Haha yes and no. It’s not intuitive enough to be of any use hence the question . I suspect that it’s to indicate when you do a manual bolus but then it’s not quite that.
Agree, this happens too often. My solution is to enter carbs, to force a small bolus. Within a few minutes the basal usually goes back to the profile setting. Not sure if fast down trend would make it respond differently, based on prediction of carbs. I don’t always eat the carbs, unless it continues to trend down. (Hope that makes sense, you won’t find that in the training docs/videos.)
Looks like Tandem has responded to complaints that duration of IOB was not displayed. Does this display only the duration of the latest bolus? Seems to. I assume that this plus other changes will come with the CIQ update promised early summer 2022. Australia seems to have gotten it along with CIQ earlier that we will in the U.S. Please keep us informed on how it goes for you.
I don’t think this is something that CAN be done. I think learning to adapt to not having a countdown timer anymore is a tradeoff with these constantly changing insulin systems. There’s no single dose you can track anymore. Since Control-IQ can adjust your insulin every 6 minutes, you would basically need up to 50 countdown timers running at any given time.
These icons sound very familiar to the droplets that are displayed on T: connect in different colors to distinguish between bolus types.
. I suspect that it’s to indicate when you do a manual bolus but then it’s not quite that.