I've also been looping for years using AndroidAPS. It's changed my life entirely for the better. My A1c has never been better and I almost never have dangerous lows anymore. The looping systems are incredibly effective, and best of all I can go hours without thinking about my diabetes at all. The long-haulers know just how exhausting management can be, and AndroidAPS has taken so much of that burden off my shoulders. Thanks for making this video and spreading the word!
for a product/app that was made by a bunch of cool people, not like a big company with loads of R&D money, this is EXTREMELY well made. great job guys at Loop, well done.
My son just started Omnipod 5 two weeks ago. He has used a version of Omnipod for 5.5 years. He started 6 months after diagnosis. We love Omnipod 5 but Loop is amazing. It can do so many much more. He needs the "control" the loop system would give him. Thank you for sharing. Also I am so glad that you were able to get the correct diagnosis. So many adults are misdiagnosed as T2D. Again thank you for sharing
Love this video and LOVE to see there is so much good in the world. I am from Brazil and just got started with 780G Medtronic, but so interested in Loop getting approved bt FDA. Congrats on your video Justin
Great video and a good summary of how Loop and DIY looping can help. There are always ups and downs, and its not for everyone as its requires a high technology awareness, but for me it beats any of the off-the-shelf technologies currently available to me. Been using AndroidAPS for 8 months now, and love how much less time of T1 awareness it takes to live each day. I've been T1 for 49 years now and AAPS is a huge leap forward in lifestyle for me, currently 96% TIR and working on the last 4.....
This is a wonderful video. I’ve had type 1 for 40+ years and have seen almost no improvement in the way I care for myself. There’s been no new medications except for the transition from animal to human insulins and the transition to the new ultra-fast and ultra-slow acting insulins. Why would companies be motivated to progress the tech with all the money to be made? Companies are a living financial entity which die without income. Will our politicians encourage a different path? No. Loop could be the first real improvement. Sad situation.
I helped a friend set up a loop with their omnipod and dexcom and a rileylink, and they are having the best a1c ever and super easy for them as a non-technical person to manage... it's not approved yet better than the doctor advice I currently get... If you can, you should do it imo. I would but I can't afford a pump... or even my insulin lol
Really awesome that they started the movement to improve insulin pump technology but the big companies have taken their ideas and made them into working, FDA approved devices. Tandem pumps with control iq does the amount of this stuff that matters and Omnipod 5 algorithm is on the way. Tandem has thousands of users data too. Even though that is mentioned in the video it’s not enough to make me feel like they are promoting the safer options.
The commercial options are great and I'm excited for more people to get access to them. However, the open-source options are years ahead of any of these companies in terms of their ability to issue corrections and handle changes with minimal input from the user. If there are people who are willing to look beyond what's available off the shelf, I think the open-source community has a lot to offer.
The thing that really really sucks about being a type one is we are forced to use systems and technology that is years and decades old to LIVE normalish lives. I’m in my late 30s and have had diabetes since I was 2. I have seen growth in diabetes tech. 15 years ago. That’s about the time pumps started showing up regularly. But my first pump, was still my favorite. It had a blood tester attachment. I could plug my numbers directly to it! That was back in 2007. Medtronic has their guardian system, but that thing is a train wreck compared to the Dexcom and the libre. And I still had to jump through hoops to make the damned thing work. I have other issues that my diabetes has caused and most of it may have been partially negated if companies had sunk more time and effort to make life better for diabetics rather than just making us poorer.
Sorry if this isn't related. I'm only 13 but im the type of person to worry about everything. My diabetes had been pretty out of control for 3 years 2019-2022 but its better now. I'm worried if I'll ever get complications later in life and if that will reduce my life expectancy. Have you shown any signs of complications or do you have tips how to lower blood sugar? Sorry if it seems random im asking a sttanger on RUclips I don't really have anyone to talk to about this :(
@Cindysvibes9895 Have you considered eating low carb? Teens tend to be insulin resistant meaning that you have to take more insulin to bring down your blood sugar than you did before adolescence and than what you will need by the time you reach your 20s. Ask your doctor if Metformin could help with this temporary insulin resistance. And no, you do NOT have to get complications if you log your foods (with this Loop app or Fitness Pal or Lose It!) and dose your insulin appropriately for the carbs (and for the proteins, too, if you are low carbing. Your doctor can explain that.) There are so many tasty low carb substitutions now for sweet treats that you really don’t have to miss out. You and your friends can learn to make them with almond or coconut flour and allulose and/or stevia to sweeten them. And find an exercise that you enjoy and will stick with into adulthood. So many of us long-term Type 1s end up with insulin resistance in adulthood when we gain weight and we have to work hard to lose the weight and the insulin resistance. But if you maintain a healthy weight, keep exercising (even walking 20 min every night after dinner is a great thing to do for your blood sugar), and get enough sleep throughout your life, you should be able to enjoy a long and healthy life without complications. 😊 (I’ve been T1D for 38 yrs and so far no complications other than insulin resistance that I have finally managed to overcome through weight loss and normal BGs by low carbing. Even my ophthalmologist said he wouldn’t know I was diabetic if he hadn’t seen it in my chart because I have never had diabetic retinopathy. And my BGs were horrible in my teen years. 40s-300s mg/dL. 😢)
Sounds like Australia so far behind just started the Omnipotent dash last week had tslim for nearly 4 years and have G6 that’s even out of date here, the dash pdm is I was told and also noticed cameras a locked down android phone so that could potentially be hacked for looping etc..? just a wild guess
the project sounds great and has so much hard work from everyone, but i'm always worried about the security of these devices.. ultimately they all connect to a cell phone that has constant access to the internet.. is taking control out of the users hands good if it leaves the an opening for someone else to get in?
How do I go about looping Omnipod Dash? My 2 adult children get them soon, they're T1 since 10 years old and have been on the old Omnipod system. Don't want to have to go on Medtronic, they love the wireless. I'd love to do this for them but I'm so out of touch with technology! HELP!!!
How to download the Loop?My daughter is 5years old ,She uses dexcom G7,injection 3 times in the day time,and glargine at night. But didn't control the glucose very well. We live in HK.
ok WOW I need to know more about this and I want a Loop!!!! Thank you for this. I'm gonna click on the links, but also WHERE and HOW can I get one of these please?!
loop sounds interesting. I'm going to have to check it out. I was thinking about doing a homebrew for my tslim2 but a working framework is always better.
I wonder what is being allowed in our food that is causing so many new type 1 diabetics. when i was diagnosed at 21 i was told it was 'juvenile onset diabetes' and that i was born with it and just over time my body was no longer able to produce insulin. However there are more and more people being diagnosed type 1, like the person in this video who was diagnosed at 30 and i've also met people who were diagnosed type 1 at 47 years old. I doubt they were diabetic their entire life and just didn't know it. So, what is being put in our food that is killing off peoples pancreas'????
if you ask diabetics after a while if they think about it, there are glympses of the diabetic symptoms like lows or highs throughout our entire life & we just never put it together till we crash & end up in hospital, this was definitely the case for me
Case study in my family for nursing...grandmother had developed madhatters from nail polish while pregnant with my mom. My mother suffered hypothyroidism, passed of myxodema coma, her hypothyroidism was not treated until well after deliveries, we believe this triggered PTT, and abnormal immune development for her 2nd and me,the 4th child. We both had honeymoon in puberty after suffering enteroviral infections in middle school. Combined with both parents having type 1 run in families, predisposition gave phenotypic expression of 50% in my F.
I feel like diabetes is preventable by eating raw pancreas of healthy animals if you’re prone to developing type 1. The food and these vaccines have to be the problem. No one in nature(indigenous people) has type 1 diabetes
I have not heard of anyone having issues getting access to the older Eros pods through their insurance, so it might be worth it to call your insurance company :) There is also a way to use Dash pods, though from my very cursory look at things, it is in the beginning stages and might require a bit more work to get things set up. Best of luck!
I was diagnosed with diabetes at 16 but my insulin had to be administered manually. When I found out about pumps I inquired about using them but my doctor just said no,without giving me a reason. Do you have any idea why as I've had been using the insulin pens for 2/3 of my life and having a pump that monitors my blood sugar and applies the right amount of insulin would help me avoid Hypoglycemia attacks.
I am in Canada. I heard today from my Diabetes educator that the new pumps have been made to prevent people from hacking them in order to loop. I do not have words to express my feelings of outrage and helplessness and frustration that there is a solution to make my blood sugars stable and it is out of reach. I'm not technical, I have no idea what to do. QUESTION: WHAT IS THE BEST PUMP FOR LOOPING?
My wife's educator just put in a big plug for looping. She's already using the OmniPod (Dash) and the Dexcom G6, so it should work super slick. Sounds like it's also compatible with the new G7 as well.
@@gregphelps4963 do you really think such exists? But to proof it: ask every person who’s using such a pump, and what their troubles with this device are.
Open source gangs typically get it right faster and better. But use the Omnipod 5 since it is sanctioned (the guy did stipulate more times than I care to count that "It's not FDA approved" 😒).
i know that this new technology is exciting but why are u promoting something and do 14 minutes video on something isn’t approved yet for safety, efficacy and quality and could potentially be harmful to others.
fda approved doesnt mean that the product is safe (its always the users fault if is not btw), and they are way far away from beeing good, safe or even up on time. just look at the ui. every mp3 player from the 90s has done it better.
I've been looping for years. The risks are there, but they're also still there (and often worse) with commercial pumps and manual insulin injections. The more people who get exposed to this, the better the community as a whole will do in my opinion. Mainstream recognition could also lead to FDA approval of these looping algorithms, which are moving much faster and delivering better results than most hopsital-based research operations.
Here's medical advice: Don't do this. One mistake and you're dead. If you are sleeping and your "hacking" gives you too much insulin... well, that's that. I'm a T1 x 30 years. I'm also an NP and a diabetes educator. Let the flames begin...
all of these systems (Loop, AndroidAPS, OpenAPS) have set insulin constraints and predictions that make it so that regardless of any insulin given, it can always back out of the treatment decision. Granted, it is entirely up to the user to set these things like with normal diabetes management. A lot of work by the community and thousands of man hours have been put in the creation of these systems to ensure safety. I would even go as far to say that these systems are safer than manual treatment. For example, OpenAPS and AndroidAPS have a feature known as Autosens. Autosens calculates your sensitivity to insulin based on blood glucose deviations per insulin given. Insulin resistance is varied day to day and Autosens has saved me from random hypos and even high resistance days.
Read the documentation for these open-source projects. They are designed to be safer than injections or un-looped pumps, with redundant safeguards to prevent insulin overdosing. I use AndroidAPS and I've had a low blood sugar less than 1% of the time in the last week: significantly better than when I was manually bolusing and changing basal rates.
These Loop systems are simply copies or predecessors of the hybrid insulin pumps currently on the market. Such as Medtronic 670/770 and Tslim and the new Omnipod 5. None of them are foolproof. You can kill yourself with any of them. You can make mistakes with all of them, including the Loop method. But the Loop system seems to allow more options for independent control of the parameters. Such as setting a lower target blood sugar of 100. None of the official pumps allow that low of a target. Good and bad with all of them. But it really depends on how the user manages the system.
For me the leap in tech means more safety rather than less - 49 years as a T1 and pretty well controlled through all of that. Even having alarms on my watch when I drop low means no-matter what happens in nighttime low BG I'm woken up before I get dangerously low. AAPS has meant I have a constant nighttime BG and don't fear sleeping (like I did on MDI when I had life events hitting high stress levels etc). My watch now stays quiet and I have glucose tablets in my pocket that are going out of date..... DIY looping is for those of us who are technically switched on enough to understand it, and accept their own risks. The FDA approved systems are available and are regulated but not as advanced, plus will be outside the financial capabilities of lots of people. The benefit of Loop and AAPS is that they drive innovation in the commercial products which benefits everyone that gets stuck with Type-1 life
Hey Dude. First of all i would like to give you my props for that video from a technical Viewpoint. Very well made. Good Visuals. Good on Cam Performance. In short great Production Value. But !! I believe you are promoting the wrong message. I started Looping back in the days around 2016. I had the same level of enthusiasm about that stuff as you are now. And that is absolutly fine. I was diagnosed in 2008 with age of 37. It took me years to learn about my diabetes and how to deal with it utilizing the available Tools and treatments. In 2016 i discovered the benefits of looping and (as is said) was blown away. So far so good. Dont get me wrong. Your diagnosis is not so long ago. Almost one year ago. Do you really think its a good thing to promote Looping to potentional "newbies" while being a Newbie by your self ? "I hacked my Insulin Pump". Sorry No you dont. You just copied & pasted some work that other great Folks from our Community were great enough to share. And so did i back in the days. Long story short. In my opinion your video sells the message: Hack your Pump and your T1D runs on Autopilot. And that is for me more than risky. Because it isnt that easy. Sure you can get into looping very easy. There is al lot of help on the webs that will guide you there. But guess what. Using Loop and other DIY Systems is still a risk that you take for yourself. No matter how well those System are performing. In the end of the Day you are responsible for what your are doing. When my Loop fails or stops working for whatever Reason i know how can handle my T1D manually. Because i was used to do it for years. And i assume (dont take it personally) after one year of living with T1D your not at this stage. Maybe im wrong. I hope you get my points.
Fair comment, i totally understand and look you’re right, from a diabetic point of view and 25 y of living with it, if you’re a newbie you absolutely need to understand how it works and BE IN CONTROL if something unexpected happens… but i guess when you lived your life almost normally for the past 30 y is difficult to don’t try to have the simplicity back as fast as possible
Fellow T1D here. As good as those new gadgets get, the very best hack still is managing your diet. I can recommend the ketogenic diet 100%, it helped me get my hba1c below 6.0!
I keep telling my wife (20+ years T1D) to try keto/carnivore, but she just says "well what if I get low?". Maybe the combo of a closed loop system and a zero/low carb diet would be the key.
@@warrenandliane Well you can still use dextrose if you are low. Once you are back on track you can return to the diet. But i promise you she wont get as many lows, because her bloodglucose levels will be much stable. At least that is what happened to me :)
@@Justin_tech 1.5 is bs from dumb MDs who say diabetes is a "spectrum". But yes LADA is almost T1. T1 = autoimmune T2 = sugar overloading the body thru poor diet and activity levels
Loop is a different product to AndroidAPS - they both use similar algorithms but have different options and ways of working. Loop is iPhone and AndroidAPS is android, but the differences are deeper than phone type - its whichever one works best for you (or whatever phone you have to start with)
If you've got any questions about my type 1 diabetes diagnosis or experience with Loop, drop them here ⬇️
How do I get information about loop?
Hey Justin, when do you think the first smartwatch with built in glucose monitor will be available? Thx
Hi did you use the Omnipod dash with the orange link pro ?
Will loop work with omnipod 5?
@@amywright7264 Im going to start that soon! :) Already have the dash pods waiting for me.
T1D community around the world is a kind of a brotherhood. They don't back down. They help each other the most I'm so proud of this community
Dead Pancreas Gang!! ☠️🤘🏼
I like that "Dead Pancreas Gang" or DPG 😁
@@infg0753 same
Everyone here lol
@@tzar790 i am here lol
Here 😂 type 2 with a Dexcom G6 and Omnipod 5
I've also been looping for years using AndroidAPS. It's changed my life entirely for the better. My A1c has never been better and I almost never have dangerous lows anymore. The looping systems are incredibly effective, and best of all I can go hours without thinking about my diabetes at all. The long-haulers know just how exhausting management can be, and AndroidAPS has taken so much of that burden off my shoulders. Thanks for making this video and spreading the word!
for a product/app that was made by a bunch of cool people, not like a big company with loads of R&D money, this is EXTREMELY well made. great job guys at Loop, well done.
Gotta love the open source community ❤️
My son just started Omnipod 5 two weeks ago. He has used a version of Omnipod for 5.5 years. He started 6 months after diagnosis. We love Omnipod 5 but Loop is amazing. It can do so many much more. He needs the "control" the loop system would give him. Thank you for sharing.
Also I am so glad that you were able to get the correct diagnosis. So many adults are misdiagnosed as T2D. Again thank you for sharing
You got it! Yea im happy I got diagnosed too - happens all too often...
This is fantastic! If you want something done you have to do it yourself.
Love this video and LOVE to see there is so much good in the world. I am from Brazil and just got started with 780G Medtronic, but so interested in Loop getting approved bt FDA. Congrats on your video Justin
Right!?
I've got my own channel now :)
Loop + Low carb = truly normal, nondiabetic blood sugars. Nice.
100%
Great video and a good summary of how Loop and DIY looping can help. There are always ups and downs, and its not for everyone as its requires a high technology awareness, but for me it beats any of the off-the-shelf technologies currently available to me. Been using AndroidAPS for 8 months now, and love how much less time of T1 awareness it takes to live each day. I've been T1 for 49 years now and AAPS is a huge leap forward in lifestyle for me, currently 96% TIR and working on the last 4.....
So happy to hear that!
This is a wonderful video. I’ve had type 1 for 40+ years and have seen almost no improvement in the way I care for myself. There’s been no new medications except for the transition from animal to human insulins and the transition to the new ultra-fast and ultra-slow acting insulins. Why would companies be motivated to progress the tech with all the money to be made? Companies are a living financial entity which die without income. Will our politicians encourage a different path? No. Loop could be the first real improvement. Sad situation.
Woah! What a community!!
I helped a friend set up a loop with their omnipod and dexcom and a rileylink, and they are having the best a1c ever and super easy for them as a non-technical person to manage... it's not approved yet better than the doctor advice I currently get...
If you can, you should do it imo. I would but I can't afford a pump... or even my insulin lol
Really awesome that they started the movement to improve insulin pump technology but the big companies have taken their ideas and made them into working, FDA approved devices. Tandem pumps with control iq does the amount of this stuff that matters and Omnipod 5 algorithm is on the way. Tandem has thousands of users data too. Even though that is mentioned in the video it’s not enough to make me feel like they are promoting the safer options.
The commercial options are great and I'm excited for more people to get access to them. However, the open-source options are years ahead of any of these companies in terms of their ability to issue corrections and handle changes with minimal input from the user. If there are people who are willing to look beyond what's available off the shelf, I think the open-source community has a lot to offer.
Does loop work with Medtronic 780???
The thing that really really sucks about being a type one is we are forced to use systems and technology that is years and decades old to LIVE normalish lives.
I’m in my late 30s and have had diabetes since I was 2. I have seen growth in diabetes tech. 15 years ago.
That’s about the time pumps started showing up regularly.
But my first pump, was still my favorite. It had a blood tester attachment. I could plug my numbers directly to it! That was back in 2007. Medtronic has their guardian system, but that thing is a train wreck compared to the Dexcom and the libre. And I still had to jump through hoops to make the damned thing work.
I have other issues that my diabetes has caused and most of it may have been partially negated if companies had sunk more time and effort to make life better for diabetics rather than just making us poorer.
Sorry if this isn't related. I'm only 13 but im the type of person to worry about everything. My diabetes had been pretty out of control for 3 years 2019-2022 but its better now. I'm worried if I'll ever get complications later in life and if that will reduce my life expectancy. Have you shown any signs of complications or do you have tips how to lower blood sugar? Sorry if it seems random im asking a sttanger on RUclips I don't really have anyone to talk to about this :(
@Cindysvibes9895 Have you considered eating low carb? Teens tend to be insulin resistant meaning that you have to take more insulin to bring down your blood sugar than you did before adolescence and than what you will need by the time you reach your 20s. Ask your doctor if Metformin could help with this temporary insulin resistance. And no, you do NOT have to get complications if you log your foods (with this Loop app or Fitness Pal or Lose It!) and dose your insulin appropriately for the carbs (and for the proteins, too, if you are low carbing. Your doctor can explain that.) There are so many tasty low carb substitutions now for sweet treats that you really don’t have to miss out. You and your friends can learn to make them with almond or coconut flour and allulose and/or stevia to sweeten them. And find an exercise that you enjoy and will stick with into adulthood. So many of us long-term Type 1s end up with insulin resistance in adulthood when we gain weight and we have to work hard to lose the weight and the insulin resistance. But if you maintain a healthy weight, keep exercising (even walking 20 min every night after dinner is a great thing to do for your blood sugar), and get enough sleep throughout your life, you should be able to enjoy a long and healthy life without complications. 😊 (I’ve been T1D for 38 yrs and so far no complications other than insulin resistance that I have finally managed to overcome through weight loss and normal BGs by low carbing. Even my ophthalmologist said he wouldn’t know I was diabetic if he hadn’t seen it in my chart because I have never had diabetic retinopathy. And my BGs were horrible in my teen years. 40s-300s mg/dL. 😢)
Sounds like Australia so far behind just started the Omnipotent dash last week had tslim for nearly 4 years and have G6 that’s even out of date here, the dash pdm is I was told and also noticed cameras a locked down android phone so that could potentially be hacked for looping etc..? just a wild guess
Loop should form a company and get FDA approval
At the end of the video I explain how Tidepool has taken loop under their wings and applied for FDA-clearance for Loop! :)
Thanks man. Video was helpful.
What an excellent all around video - giving credit where credit is due 👍👍
I was diagnosed with type 1 at 30 years old as well
twins!
Same, this year.
the project sounds great and has so much hard work from everyone, but i'm always worried about the security of these devices.. ultimately they all connect to a cell phone that has constant access to the internet.. is taking control out of the users hands good if it leaves the an opening for someone else to get in?
How do I go about looping Omnipod Dash? My 2 adult children get them soon, they're T1 since 10 years old and have been on the old Omnipod system. Don't want to have to go on Medtronic, they love the wireless. I'd love to do this for them but I'm so out of touch with technology! HELP!!!
tell me if you did ok with the dash and loop! Im in the same boat right now...
No mention on compatibility of the various CGM's I presume we are shackled to the Dexcom 6 and that Eversense or libre 3 are not compatible?
How to download the Loop?My daughter is 5years old ,She uses dexcom G7,injection 3 times in the day time,and glargine at night. But didn't control the glucose very well. We live in HK.
ok WOW I need to know more about this and I want a Loop!!!! Thank you for this. I'm gonna click on the links, but also WHERE and HOW can I get one of these please?!
Can I get your diabetes educator’s contact so that I can hire her for help? I am interested in starting the Loop program. Thanks
Look up Mary Rose Los Angeles
Justin, I cant thank you enough. By any chance, do you know any channels similar to your in Spanish? Appreciate your help :)
Thanks very much for this.
i love this a lot but wish i can use it , it’s not available here in dubai
loop sounds interesting. I'm going to have to check it out. I was thinking about doing a homebrew for my tslim2 but a working framework is always better.
I wonder what is being allowed in our food that is causing so many new type 1 diabetics. when i was diagnosed at 21 i was told it was 'juvenile onset diabetes' and that i was born with it and just over time my body was no longer able to produce insulin. However there are more and more people being diagnosed type 1, like the person in this video who was diagnosed at 30 and i've also met people who were diagnosed type 1 at 47 years old. I doubt they were diabetic their entire life and just didn't know it. So, what is being put in our food that is killing off peoples pancreas'????
if you ask diabetics after a while if they think about it, there are glympses of the diabetic symptoms like lows or highs throughout our entire life & we just never put it together till we crash & end up in hospital, this was definitely the case for me
Case study in my family for nursing...grandmother had developed madhatters from nail polish while pregnant with my mom. My mother suffered hypothyroidism, passed of myxodema coma, her hypothyroidism was not treated until well after deliveries, we believe this triggered PTT, and abnormal immune development for her 2nd and me,the 4th child. We both had honeymoon in puberty after suffering enteroviral infections in middle school. Combined with both parents having type 1 run in families, predisposition gave phenotypic expression of 50% in my F.
I feel like diabetes is preventable by eating raw pancreas of healthy animals if you’re prone to developing type 1. The food and these vaccines have to be the problem. No one in nature(indigenous people) has type 1 diabetes
I would love to loop, but I have no idea how to get started.
Neither do I I can’t find how to do it
What is loop exactly? I'm looking in to getting a OMNIPOD, can I use LOOP with my Motorola?
Good explanation:)
Thanks! :)
Nice! Where do you get the Omnipod Eros pods? Are they still covered by your insurance? Thank you.
I have not heard of anyone having issues getting access to the older Eros pods through their insurance, so it might be worth it to call your insurance company :) There is also a way to use Dash pods, though from my very cursory look at things, it is in the beginning stages and might require a bit more work to get things set up. Best of luck!
Yes
I was diagnosed with diabetes at 16 but my insulin had to be administered manually.
When I found out about pumps I inquired about using them but my doctor just said no,without giving me a reason.
Do you have any idea why as I've had been using the insulin pens for 2/3 of my life and having a pump that monitors my blood sugar and applies the right amount of insulin would help me avoid Hypoglycemia attacks.
So loop can only work on an apple device, right?
I started to use the Omnipod 5 and it seems is close to a closed loop system
There is AAPS for Android.
Praying for you hope you get better .
It effing sucks. I was diagnosed at 21. Sister was diagnosed at 32.
Hi, will it work with libre 2, iPhone and omni pod dash? If not is there another system that will. Thankyou
No, not yet.
Tidepool FTW!
Yesssss
any idea how to get omnipod from outside the US?!
Hi did you use the Omnipod dash with the orange link pro?
Dash doesn't need the link device!
I am in Canada. I heard today from my Diabetes educator that the new pumps have been made to prevent people from hacking them in order to loop. I do not have words to express my feelings of outrage and helplessness and frustration that there is a solution to make my blood sugars stable and it is out of reach. I'm not technical, I have no idea what to do. QUESTION: WHAT IS THE BEST PUMP FOR LOOPING?
Omnipod dash. Available in Canada.
My wife's educator just put in a big plug for looping. She's already using the OmniPod (Dash) and the Dexcom G6, so it should work super slick. Sounds like it's also compatible with the new G7 as well.
im a type 1 for 20 years just got me a pump, medtronic 780g how do i loop with this , ima going hunting
How and where do I get what I need to put together a Closed Loop System? Also, what do I need in order to build a Closed Loop System myself?
Hey what are the Gameboys behind you on the wall. Looks cool
Grid studio
Can relate
Insurance companies hate pumps 😂
I looked in the iPhone App Store, but it’s not there? Help!
What Pioneer controller do you use?
This is revolutionary omg
this is awesome ty for this info
💯
Is tandem x2 pump can I you loop with it
great!
What is the application name on android? Searched with the name loop but not there!!
AndroidAPS
Can i use libre 2 with omnipod to loop?
I guess so. At least it works with AndroidAPS
Won't be hacking my pump love it just the way it is good video though
Will loop work with Omnipod 5?
No, Dash or the prior version only for now.
And why is CNET promoting a NON FDA approved method when Omnipod 5 which is FDA approved will do this on its own?
because it is not working. it claims it does, but not in a working way and way not as good at all.
@@notofinterest Please by all means point me to the peer-reviewed scientific papers proving that "not in a working way and way not as good at all".
Are they not allowed to share interesting news?
They stated multiple times in the video that it's not FDA approved
@@gregphelps4963 do you really think such exists? But to proof it: ask every person who’s using such a pump, and what their troubles with this device are.
Open source gangs typically get it right faster and better. But use the Omnipod 5 since it is sanctioned (the guy did stipulate more times than I care to count that "It's not FDA approved" 😒).
Sugar/ carbs = liver issues
Did you get the COVID vaccine? Asking, because I got Type 1 in 2021 and find it extremely suspicious.
i know that this new technology is exciting but why are u promoting something and do 14 minutes video on something isn’t approved yet for safety, efficacy and quality and could potentially be harmful to others.
fda approved doesnt mean that the product is safe (its always the users fault if is not btw), and they are way far away from beeing good, safe or even up on time. just look at the ui. every mp3 player from the 90s has done it better.
I've been looping for years. The risks are there, but they're also still there (and often worse) with commercial pumps and manual insulin injections. The more people who get exposed to this, the better the community as a whole will do in my opinion. Mainstream recognition could also lead to FDA approval of these looping algorithms, which are moving much faster and delivering better results than most hopsital-based research operations.
After a Vaccination? Got mine at 21 after a booster shot for TB.
Why would you hack it , really
Here's medical advice: Don't do this. One mistake and you're dead. If you are sleeping and your "hacking" gives you too much insulin... well, that's that. I'm a T1 x 30 years. I'm also an NP and a diabetes educator. Let the flames begin...
all of these systems (Loop, AndroidAPS, OpenAPS) have set insulin constraints and predictions that make it so that regardless of any insulin given, it can always back out of the treatment decision. Granted, it is entirely up to the user to set these things like with normal diabetes management. A lot of work by the community and thousands of man hours have been put in the creation of these systems to ensure safety.
I would even go as far to say that these systems are safer than manual treatment. For example, OpenAPS and AndroidAPS have a feature known as Autosens. Autosens calculates your sensitivity to insulin based on blood glucose deviations per insulin given. Insulin resistance is varied day to day and Autosens has saved me from random hypos and even high resistance days.
Read the documentation for these open-source projects. They are designed to be safer than injections or un-looped pumps, with redundant safeguards to prevent insulin overdosing. I use AndroidAPS and I've had a low blood sugar less than 1% of the time in the last week: significantly better than when I was manually bolusing and changing basal rates.
These Loop systems are simply copies or predecessors of the hybrid insulin pumps currently on the market. Such as Medtronic 670/770 and Tslim and the new Omnipod 5. None of them are foolproof. You can kill yourself with any of them. You can make mistakes with all of them, including the Loop method. But the Loop system seems to allow more options for independent control of the parameters. Such as setting a lower target blood sugar of 100. None of the official pumps allow that low of a target. Good and bad with all of them. But it really depends on how the user manages the system.
An NP with no coding knowledge
For me the leap in tech means more safety rather than less - 49 years as a T1 and pretty well controlled through all of that. Even having alarms on my watch when I drop low means no-matter what happens in nighttime low BG I'm woken up before I get dangerously low.
AAPS has meant I have a constant nighttime BG and don't fear sleeping (like I did on MDI when I had life events hitting high stress levels etc). My watch now stays quiet and I have glucose tablets in my pocket that are going out of date.....
DIY looping is for those of us who are technically switched on enough to understand it, and accept their own risks. The FDA approved systems are available and are regulated but not as advanced, plus will be outside the financial capabilities of lots of people.
The benefit of Loop and AAPS is that they drive innovation in the commercial products which benefits everyone that gets stuck with Type-1 life
There are 2 types of carbohydrates. Simple and complex. Simple is unhealthy.
I would say mostly complex are better, except for hypos, in which case simple can save a life :)
Don't forget the protein
Stop faking
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Hey Dude.
First of all i would like to give you my props for that video from a technical Viewpoint.
Very well made. Good Visuals. Good on Cam Performance. In short great Production Value.
But !!
I believe you are promoting the wrong message.
I started Looping back in the days around 2016. I had the same level of enthusiasm about that stuff as you are now. And that is absolutly fine. I was diagnosed in 2008 with age of 37. It took me years to learn about my diabetes and how to deal with it utilizing the available Tools and treatments. In 2016 i discovered the benefits of looping and (as is said) was blown away.
So far so good. Dont get me wrong. Your diagnosis is not so long ago. Almost one year ago. Do you really think its a good thing to promote Looping to potentional "newbies" while being a Newbie by your self ?
"I hacked my Insulin Pump". Sorry No you dont. You just copied & pasted some work that other great Folks from our Community were great enough to share. And so did i back in the days. Long story short. In my opinion your video sells the message: Hack your Pump and your T1D runs on Autopilot. And that is for me more than risky. Because it isnt that easy.
Sure you can get into looping very easy. There is al lot of help on the webs that will guide you there. But guess what. Using Loop and other DIY Systems is still a risk that you take for yourself. No matter how well those System are performing. In the end of the Day you are responsible for what your are doing. When my Loop fails or stops working for whatever Reason i know how can handle my T1D manually. Because i was used to do it for years. And i assume (dont take it personally) after one year of living with T1D your not at this stage. Maybe im wrong. I hope you get my points.
Fair comment, i totally understand and look you’re right, from a diabetic point of view and 25 y of living with it, if you’re a newbie you absolutely need to understand how it works and BE IN CONTROL if something unexpected happens… but i guess when you lived your life almost normally for the past 30 y is difficult to don’t try to have the simplicity back as fast as possible
Fellow T1D here. As good as those new gadgets get, the very best hack still is managing your diet. I can recommend the ketogenic diet 100%, it helped me get my hba1c below 6.0!
I keep telling my wife (20+ years T1D) to try keto/carnivore, but she just says "well what if I get low?". Maybe the combo of a closed loop system and a zero/low carb diet would be the key.
@@warrenandliane Well you can still use dextrose if you are low. Once you are back on track you can return to the diet. But i promise you she wont get as many lows, because her bloodglucose levels will be much stable. At least that is what happened to me :)
I started this diet when i was a 15 year T1D btw.
Youre not a type 1, you have LADA
LADA is 1.5 which is basically 1.
@@Justin_tech 1.5 is bs from dumb MDs who say diabetes is a "spectrum". But yes LADA is almost T1. T1 = autoimmune T2 = sugar overloading the body thru poor diet and activity levels
Did you have covid? If yes, did you get T1 after? Is Loop > AndriodAPS?
Loop is a different product to AndroidAPS - they both use similar algorithms but have different options and ways of working. Loop is iPhone and AndroidAPS is android, but the differences are deeper than phone type - its whichever one works best for you (or whatever phone you have to start with)
I had covid back in Nov 2021 and was diagnosed T1 in Feb of 2022 at age 26. I think it was covid that triggered the immune response.
Amazing Vidéo. Thank you @justin_tech