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  • The same reason you don’t carry a camera, a music player, a phone, etc as separate devices in your pocket. Because it’s wildly inconvenient and super frustrating to swap between them. For diabetics in this case, you generally have two separate companies making the pump and the glucose monitor. So at that point you are carrying a phone around, a monitor for your glucose levels, and a controller for your pump. That’s three devices that you need to keep charged and on your person at all times. Not to mention they are generally not slim and sleek and easy to pocket.

    The ability to swap between these from a single device and the mental offload that brings can’t be overstated.

    That being said, people that use medical services on their phones should not do OS upgrades until they are notified by their makers to be verified and working and should be heavily tested before any updates go out.
















  • I’ve been using it since it came out. Warm up period is 25 minutes and is the size of a couple quarters stacked together.

    The whole thing is disposable, so no need to transfer over your transmitter between sensor changes. Definitely (not the greatest thing for the environment, but I won’t deny how much I love the low profile that grants it). The injector is much smaller and the application process much smoother.

    It’s a huge improvement over the G6, but is still unsupported for closed loop systems like the Omnipod 5. You can use it with the Omnipod Dash or another supported pump using Loop to achieve a closed loop system if you’re into that.