I've been punching such holes in my body 6-8 times a day for the past
25 years. Don't anybody ever get the idea that they should wait around for it to get easier, it's here now and it works. Although it might seem like a big deal to you, it is a very minor deal compared to all the other aspects of having diabetes.Tim.
How about this.
"Tim Shoppa" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Well said Tim. It does become so routine, that you can do a test almost 'blindfolded', and by careful choice of sites (use the edges of the fingers, not the pads), it is basically painless. I was first diagnosed as diabetic, 39 years ago. At that time, blood glucose testing, didn't exist, except in hospitals, and even urine testing, involved a test-tube, rather than the simple strips now used. The key is to remember that much of the damage from poorly controlled diabetes, is analogous to rapidly accelerated aging, and if you don't control it, the long term effects on the eyes, and kidneys in particular, will be far worse than a few pinpricks. For the last twenty years, I have been visiting a hospital eye clinic, to check for any signs of retinopathy, and this year, they decided that there was no point in my keeping coming, since there had been no detectable signs of change in my eyes over that whole time. Touch wood, long may it continue!... My grandfather (on my mother's side of the family), was one of the first people in the UK to be treated using insulin. In those days, the needles had to be cleaned and resharpened by hand, and insulin had to be fetched every few days. Things have improved hugely, but some aspects do seem much slower than perhaps expected. Work was already being done over twenty years ago, on implanting protected colonies of islet cells in a carrier close to the liver, using a semi-permeable membrane to avoid rejection problems, and this is only just appearing in human use now...
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I suspect that if you found such a method and designed the product for it, you'd end up very rich.
Somehow the body makes the measurement. It may provide a clue as to the method for the "warning light circuit". I think there are lots of people here willing to advise you on how to use a PIC or LM555 to blink the LED once you've done the hard part.
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What have you been reading? Everyone knows that man does not live on bread alone. As for women I think they want peanut butter on theirs too.
[...]Are you going to reduce it by one any time soon?
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It would be better, wouldn't it, if you could know minute by minute.
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Forget "Nuke gay wales", just nuke Reg. Then we won't have to read any more of his incoherent babbling.
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I was just changed to the LifeScan "OneTouch Ultra" which can be used either way. The VA is switching to them because they use less blood for each test. I have a lot of trouble getting enough blood for the older LifeScan "OneTouch Surestep", even with the lancet set for maximum penetration of the skin. A lot of days I had to make two holes next to each other and squeeze enough blood for the sample before it clots. I just got the meter and supplies, so I haven't used it enough to comment on the new glucose meter.
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Oooh, looks most interesting. Wonder how accurate it is, clinical chemistry of course being something of an inexact science at it's worst. Good to see that IR absorbtion can be used for more than just O2 saturation measurement. The sensor just needs to get smaller now :-).
Steve
Ah yes, that bit I can do, the rest may take a little time.
Steve
...or quibble over the exact means of RST-ing a 4060.
wwwbrauer.in.tum.de/~trespvol/papers/IEEEbz.pdf wwwbrauer.in.tum.de/~trespvol/papers/bz2.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.1007/11427469_121
Hmmmm- this runs much deeper than taking a simple reading, it involves development of an expert system tolerant of missing data and characterized as a non-recurrent neural network. Why don't you get to the bottom of all this and submit an annotated summary of all extant approaches, techniques, methods, means, products, technologies, and prospectus to non-invasive blood glucose level measurement and monitoring not to exceed 100 pages NLT Friday 4-14-2006. Looking forward to your reply.
Well, my comment was for the benefit of a reader who might decide "hey, I'll just wait for this non-invasive meter and I'll never prick my fingers 4 or more times a day".
But... the most obvious thing to do, if you know minute by minute, is to use this to set an insulin pump (in the sci-fi world, an implanted insulin pump) to mimic a "healthy" pancreas. Here we get to employ everything we know about embedded servo stabilization.
Otherwise, minute by minute is probably just too much information. I mean, I like wide-bandwidth probes more than the average guy, but I don't know what I'd do with so much information!
Tim.
Heck, the US is just following in the footsteps of their forefathers from Hernan Cortez through the Vikings, the Ottoman Turks, the Romans, the Greeks, and so on.
I had misread your tone. Yes, poking a finger several times a day is way better than the alternative.
Actually that isn't so "scifi". The power could be delivered through the skin by AC coupling. Unlike a pacemaker, it wouldn't have to have its own batteries. If it is shut down for a few minutes nothing very bad will happen.
Actually it doesn't even really need to be "stable". It could oscillate by 10% and it wouldn't matter. I think that if I was designing such a thing, I'd add a dither to the output and monitor the input for the resulting dither. It would allow me to check that the measurement process was really working.
Your wrist watch updates every second. You deal with this by from only glancing at it from time to time. I think your mind would deal with it in the same sort of way.
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Cheers! Rich
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