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15 July 2008
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So I see someone has been working on a car which reads your blood glucose levels via an under the skin insert and a Bluetooth transmitter, here.

Interesting – but I have a couple of questions:

With the advent and increasing popularity of continuous blood glucose monitors, won’t we be able to have this functionality no matter what car we drive?
Does it stop you from driving if your glucose is too low or high when you start up the car? (a la a drink-driving gauge)
What does this car look like? (I bet it’s uuuug-ly)

Good point to raise though. I…

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By Nic on 15 July 2008 at 1.18 pm
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Liar, liar, pants on fire.

10 July 2008
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Well the grand CGMS trial of July 2008 has come to an abrupt end. After a lot of beeping in the night, then a hard core RPM class (spinning by another name) this morning, I got my twist ties at the ready and prepared for the shower routine in the changing room – only to find that the insertion was 3/4 of the way out. I have to give the unit back to the hospital this afternoon anyway so pulled it all the way out.

The good news is I got up this morning (at 5.20am, ouch) with a BM of 8.9 which is actually pretty good for me (despite the nurse who scolded me on the phone when my…

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By Nic on 10 July 2008 at 7.55 am
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8 July 2008
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Of course my first night with the monitor was completely untypical – my blood sugars dropped instead of rising. I suspected this would happen once I was wired up! Went down to low 2’s at 2.30 and got up and treated it. Was 8.5 when I left for the gym. Recently I’ve mainly been somewhere around 14 and 16. So hopefully I’ll capture these sorts of inexplicable high BMs overnight tonight so we have some data around what’s going on.

Sleeping with the monitor wasn’t tooooo bad…. I put it in the pocket of my pyjamas, and clipped it on. I had a pretty restless sleep with that and the low and then had to get up at…

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By Nic on 8 July 2008 at 7.59 am
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