A little over one week with Control IQ

A Week in Review: 

Dashboard Summary from the last week of our t:slim Control IQ trial. 

A full week + one day has passed since Cat started the t:slim pediatric trial. At first, I wasn't sure what to think about it. She had some highs and some lows over the first couple of days, to the point where I wasn't sure I'd made the right choice, having her participate in the trial.

And then school started the Monday after she started wearing the pump. I shared her graphs and how much time she was spending with her insulin suspended (because of the increased activity at school) in my last post.

But after a full week in, and I think we are settling into a new normal. The pump seems to be figuring it out. I honestly can say that this pump/CGM combo has us thinking less about diabetes than we ever have. When things are going well (no pump site failure, like earlier this week), I don't even worry about her numbers. She's had some highs overnight the last couple of nights.  Not sure why (growth hormones? Fat/Protein rise from dinner or dessert?). But I haven't had to get out of bed to correct her because the t:slim does that for me. By morning she's in range and ready to go. In fact, I haven't corrected her at all or even touched her pump except to bolus or to suspend delivery for swimming, etc.

The fact that the Dexcom G6 has NO CALIBRATIONS and NO FINGERSTICKS is more amazing and liberating than I ever thought it would be. Like, a huge stone has been lifted off of my chest. There have been so many times that I have stressed out about when to calibrate on the 670g because blood sugars need to be stable, so that means you don't calibrate after you eat. But if you forget to calibrate and then you eat....then whoops! You might be without CGM data for a few hours till your blood sugar stabilizes. With the Dexcom G6, you just don't have to worry about that at all. I know Cat's dad loves this feature because he was ALWAYS forgetting to calibrate when I was out of town, leading to increased anxiety about loss of CGM data.

Now what I don't love is the Dexcom Follow app. Yes, I know that sounds crazy. But when we were on the 670g, we used Nightscout and it was AMAZING. I could see all sorts of information from her pump besides her blood sugar graph. More about Nightscout later on, but for now, I'll share some of her graphs from T:connect. Oh, and yes, I love T:connect SO MUCH MORE than Medtronic Carelink. SO MUCH MORE. <3