I am not really the type to analyse reports of glucose data. I’ve never been like that, except for a brief period where I was overly obsessive. Or, as it is more commonly known: when pregnant. Then, I was all about entering numbers into Excel spreadsheets, (hey – it was the early 2000s), and I searching for patterns in the 15-20 BGL checks I was doing every day, circling anything even closely resembling a common theme in green. (Oh – green circles may always have been my thing…!)
These days, even with reports and graphs and all sorts of other fancy pants data at my fingertips, I don’t really do any analysis.
The reason I love Loop is because of how it makes me feel in the here and now. By reducing so many of the tasks I do, and my diabetes needing less urgent attention, plus dealing with fewer lows, fewer highs and fewer pretty much all the other shitty stuff, it means that my in-the-moment diabetes is far easier to manage.
Sure – I occasionally have a look at what my Clarity app is telling me, but it’s only ever the snapshot page: TIR, average glucose level and hypo risk.
Since being on Loop, my hypo risk has always looked like this:
Minimal risk. Take that in for a moment.
Diabetes – the condition that demands so much of us in terms of being able to complete highly complicated calculations factoring in pretty much every single variable imaginable and a million more, dosing a potentially lethal drug and really, no room for error.
Diabetes – the definition of a high-risk health condition.
And my personal risk of lows? Minimal.
So, remind me again: How is Loop (or other DIYAPS options) unsafe?
Diabetogenic 
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August 1, 2019 at 2:43 am
Secret Squirrel
This is coming from an electrical engineering student (living with T1D for 20 years), with cybersecurity training:
Just wait until hostile nation-states such as Russia, China, Iran, and/or North Korea.uses their military units to do a cyberphysical attack on insulin pumps.
Have you read the book CLICK HERE TO KILL EVERYBODY, by Bruce Schneier, which anecdotally mentions OpenAPS/AndroidAPS/Loop?
You guys are the lowest possible hanging fruit for the most devastating (and mission accomplished) type attack.
Even the package NPM, which OpenAPS uses was subjected to a cyberattack in the past week.
None of you have heeded the formal warnings about cyberphysical attacks from the US FDA and others. Nor have you taken appropriate action. This group of people, as volunteers, is completely incapable of securing their equipment against a military of a hostile nation-state.
If you do not believe me, then fine.
Nobody who is using this device actually knows what they are consenting to, which is the extremely high risk of cyberattack.
There is one word to describe people like you: DELUSIONAL.
By the way, people actually do get sub 6.0% A1cs without using OpenAPS/AndroidAPS/Loop, by just using the combination of insulin pumps and glucose sensors–and without issue.
Don’t worry, a cyberphysical attack on insulin pumps is virtually guaranteed to happen.
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August 2, 2019 at 12:46 pm
Rick Phillips
I think if you chose to do this and you know the risks, it is perfectly OK.
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