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Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands

First of all, this blogpost is kinda long. Let me prove to you reading it will actually have some payoff:

the body has its own emergency reserves of glucose, which it can sometimes decide to use (though beware, this system turns off when you’re drunk), so maybe the Snickers bar you just ate to save your life wasn’t actually needed anymore, and you end up with a hyper you’re not quite yourself during a hypo (you get slower, dumber, I’ve heard of people getting stuck in thought loops in front of an open fridge), and so even though you intellectually know you just ate enough to get back into the correct levels eventually, your brain is screaming at you “EAT! On the stairs I had the thought: why the hell is there no app into which I’d put my past X blood glucose values, my usual daily schedule, my weight, height, gender, age, whatever, and it would let me play with some kind of prediction (interactively!) Found one maintainer on GitHub and wrote them an email detailing my woes and the app I’d love to write, and whether they could point me to some existing software or good papers on modelling multiple-dose-injection treatment (as opposed to a pump / artificial pancreas).

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