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bluesounddirecttoday at 1:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

My wife is a t1d and has the same pump. It sucks their support staff has no idea how the thing works or what its failure modes are. My wife once had her x2 tell her it gave here a 40 unit bolis out of the blue . This would have killed her. While in the er support from x2 said something like "there is no way for it to do this .. you must be wrong.. are you reading the display correctly .." All in all the x2 plus dexcom was supposed to be a closed loop cgm plus pump. It rarely cuts insulin delivery on low blood sugar, or it does it way too late to matter .


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asyxtoday at 3:17 PM

That’s kinda why I don’t want a pump. I’d rather deal with it myself than have some garbage corporation cut every corner and save every cent they can on a device that is keeping me alive.

I’d rather have a glucose pump to be honest. I don’t need long lasting insulin so I don’t really need to care about dying in my sleep but lows scare me more than highs.

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bluesounddirecttoday at 1:43 PM

also it didn't give here 40 units the pump failed .