I’m currently using a Paradigm 751. It’s 5yr warranty runs out this summer, so I’ll be switching to the latest closed loop system from Medtronic.

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Originally posted by gw3971:

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Originally posted by wrightd:
Get a Dexcom G6 continuous. Requires NO blood calibration. If it doesn't beep me I know I'm within the control limits I set. Different beeps tones and cadences tell me exactly what's going on. Updates your blood sugar graph every 5 minutes. You can't beat it.

This! I have been using the Dexcom system for years as a type 1. I'm single and live alone. With the Dexcom I can set high and low blood sugar level alarms. The alarms are loud enough to wake me during the night in case of dangerous low blood sugar levels. In my case the Dexcom is a life saver.

Amen brother. I wish they had these back then when I was in college. I was power lifting and getting gobsmacked in my sleep and waking up in the hospital. I could not survive that now. Though my wild diabetic college days are long over, this Dexcom wakes me up each and everytime I want it to without fail. I have avoided many crashes since getting it, and I'm doing better by avoiding them. I can also watch the nature of a rise over time before I decide to take insulin, when before I had to check it after I was already feeling bad. Diabetics never had it so good and I'm grateful for the advances. It won't be long before the sensors and algorithms and pumps are sophsitciated and reliable enough to combine them in a closed system. That will be really GREAT stuff. Someday diabetics may be able to fly passenger airplanes and perform brain surgery. These are good days for older type 1s who welcome the end of suffering and worse. God bless capitalism in medical science. There's no way in hell government health care could or would ever produce anything good like this. The anti-capitalists, medical socialists, and democratic marxists can kiss my diabetic ass. So in conclusion just get a Dexcom G6.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
I’m currently using a Paradigm 751. It’s 5yr warranty runs out this summer, so I’ll be switching to the latest closed loop system from Medtronic.

Warranty is 4yrs. The latest system is 670g w/ Guardian 3 sensor. This will be the pump still offered. Ensure there's an upgrade program in place for the 780g to be released next spring. If not, seriously consider waiting.

670g is worlds different than the 751 AKA 530g. The enlite sensor from the 530g is garbage compared to the G3.

I had the 630g for 5 months before upgrading to the 670g. Cost was $300 which would be waived for completing 3 surveys and a written/video testimonial. Less than one he total of my time for all.

https://diatribe.org/news-medt...med-780g-closed-loop