Okay thanks. Just asking for my daughter who does a lot of that type of thing 
Got my email this afternoon, did my online training after dinner, then got my second email with my Control-IQ ID number minutes after I finished the online training. It only took 15 minutes to downloaded and install on my pump, everything worked flawlessly. Waiting until the morning to light it off.
I went to the t:connect portal Sunday night and started the application, my Endo sent the precription in Monday afternoon at 4 PM and 3 PM Thursday I got my approval email. I could not believe how fast Dexcom processed everything. Plus Iām on Medicare too.
January 24Got my email this afternoon, did my online training after dinner, then got my second email with my Control-IQ ID number minutes after I finished the online training. It only took 15 minutes to downloaded and install on my pump, everything worked flawlessly. Waiting until the morning to light it off.
I went to the t:connect portal Sunday night and started the application, my Endo sent the precription in Monday afternoon at 4 PM and 3 PM Thursday I got my approval email. I could not believe how fast Dexcom processed everything. Plus Iām on Medicare too.
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Very impressive. I spoke with my Endo and they advised my prescription has already been sent. I, too, tried the portal but it said they needed a script. Hope it goes as smoothly as yours. I am Medicare also.
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I started Control-IQ yesterday and Iām thrilled with it thus far. There will be some changes to my practice, like pre-blousing for oatmeal this morning resulted in basal being suspended when I was waiting for the downward trend to advise me to start eating (Sugar Surfing). But itās very easy to setup and the setting are intuitive.
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They need to set the lower limit lower for me to start using. I always try to keep tighter control then their limits.
Iām with you on this one. When I met with one of the Tandem reps pre-release she told me with Control-IQ Iād likely increase my A1c (5.4). Now A1c isnāt everything, But right now my personal target is avg BG less than 110. Besides, I LOVE Basal-IQ because I can be much more aggressive with my basals and that helps drive down my average BG,
Iām pretty sure Control-IQ would improve my quality of life by taking some of the tedious oversight out of the control process. If they ever come out with a version that includes an option to use the Basal-IQ algorithm Iāll be all over it! From what I understand right now if you upgrade, thereās no returning to the prior version. If I download Control-IQ for a test drive and find I donāt like it, Iām SOL.
Iāve been using control-iq for a couple days now. Control-iq is better at preventing lows than basal-iq was. If anything, itās more aggressive than basal-iq. Iām not impressed with how it deals with above normal BGs but that wasnāt my worry with control-iq.
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I read somewhere that it works best if you keep one standard profile, so you have your proper settings, but then create a duplicate profile with a more aggressive (lower number) correction factor. It enables the system to bolus more.
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The system doesnāt do anything unless youāre above 160. For some reason my BG was hovering around 140 today, basal-iq didnāt do anything. This is what I donāt like about it, anything between 110-160 is a void that doesnāt get addressed. It is keeping my BG at 79 for the last few hours.
Installed it Monday and am loving it especially at night as it gives me more peace of mind should I have a spike up late at night.
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Correct, if it is STABLE between 112 and 160, it will not do anything. It is only if it is predicting it to be above or below those within 30 minutes that it will react.
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The question I have is could you put yourself in āsleepā mode all day? My understanding is the target for sleep mode is something like 112-120. I understand you wonāt get the correction boluses, but if you are hovering in the 140-150 range it would at least increase your basil to bring you down to 120.
Just something ive been wondering about
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Yes, you can be in sleep mode, and it will adjust the basal to keep it under 120, but it will NOT give correction boluses.
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Cool. My theory is Iāll handle correction boluses (160+), but if Iām hoovering at 140. I would like some help pushing me down to 112.
Yes. They did have a large portion of their patients in the trial who chose to use sleep mode all the time, to get tighter control. Iām going to give that a try in a few days. I want to see how control-iq reacts during the weekend before going the sleep mode route.
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Please report 
back. Iām very interested in that approach.
This is my biggest gripe with control-iq. I donāt worry about doing correction boluses for higher than normal BGs. Having a BG hover around 140 is irritating, in my opinion, the pump should be taking care of these types of highs because they inflict the most frustration.
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I completely agree!!
