[stevezsa8]

My wife is a Type 1 diabetic. Here is some interesting complexity:

She has a continuous glucose monitor on her body that tells the insulin pump how to dose her basal insulin.

Basal insulin is the background dose that you have continuously delivered.

At night, if she sleeps on the part of the body with the sensor, the blood sugar reading will be lower than actual. So the pump stops insulin and starts beeping an alarm. No big deal, she just gets up and does a finger stick blood test to check for a false positive. About half the time it will be a false low-blood sugar measure.

A related issue is that when you first insert the sensor, the blood sugar reading is way off until the body calms down at the insertion site.

So long story short, I think we need better continuous glucose monitors to prevent potential wild see-sawing when there are two opposing meds, as with the insulin-glucagon combo.