iAPS Take Two (or 3) – a review of the app after a week of using it
I decided to give the iAPS app another go because I felt like the first time I didn’t give it enough of a chance and the same can be said for when I tried it previously as FAX.
Essentially, I love loop so something would really have to blow it out of the water to motivate a full changeover. With loop, I feel my diabetes life is “easy”. I don’t think about my personal diabetes much at all and can just glide on by with an average of at least 87% in-range. I do use physical activity, specifically walking, a lot to keep glucose in range. I (along with Jenny and Dana on the IDS team) have an under-the-desk treadmill that I use throughout my workday.
Here are my pros and cons list of the iAPS app after one week of using it:
- I really like that I have the ability to disable super micro boluses and not have the adjustment also impact (insulin sensitivity factor and correction range (target))
- with an override on (or I can, the decision is up to me on what I want to toggle on/off) with the override.
- The “target settings” where autosensing detects resistance or sensitivity and adjusts the target
- Dynamic settings (insulin sensitivity factor and correction range (target)) worked nicely for me, especially in combination with sigmoid function
- Ability to enter protein and fat at mealtime
- Save foods as pre-sets (which is currently in loop dev)
- Can have multiple profiles (can customize into loop)
- Can click on the information to get how meal boluses are calculated
I’m excited to see the new iAPS app and will definitely do a more extensive review when we have that.
- The clunky look of the app – especially the prediction graph
- Sooooo…many……preferences….. (I’m a dial my settings in kinda person I guess you can say)
- It took me a long time to figure out where to find things (such as how to stop the pod expiration reminder)
I’m excited to see the new iAPS app and will definitely do a more extensive review when we have that.
How has the iAPS app performed?
Overall, for the week my TIR is at 74% and my low percent is way up at 6%.
But, really to blame for the steep decrease is that I’ve switched back to an orange link and the eros pods because I was able to get them free of cost (thank you kind donors!) and I’m losing connection constantly.
I have to figure out if it’s the pods or the link causing the issue. I switched back to loop for 3 days thinking maybe iAPS was the problem but that proved to be untrue as the problem persisted.
Overall, I think I’ll stick with iAPS for a while longer. Stay tuned!
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