[Diabetes-Talk] re i let insulin pump from beta bionics

[Patricia Maddix]

I have not used this pump personally as I use the Tandem Mobi
But when I had my training for this pump, I chatted with the diabetes educator about her experiences with some of the other pumps. She said that the patients that she and her colleagues had been dealing with using the eyelet pump were encountering quite a bit of hypoglycemia, so their solution was to have them put it on exercise mode or whatever That pump calls it and then they did better.
Patricia
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> On Sep 20, 2025, at 5:31 PM, Veronica Elsea via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Gary, I have not seen the smart phone app because when it first came out, everything was buried deep in menus in the pump and definitely not accessible. I know some people who used it but didn't stay with it because of how it behaved. Here's an example. She kind of figured out how to enter the basics and her meals were pretty much all the same size. Then on a week end, she attended a kids' birthday party. So, as you can guess, what she ate was really different. All during the next week, this pump was blousing based on how she ate over the week end. She was crashing so badly all week that she abandoned the pump. I've heard that some people have better luck if they don't tell it anything about meals.
> I haven't known of a blind person using this pump. Did your endo give any specific reason for wanting you to use this pump? I'd be curious.
> Veronica
> 
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> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] re i let insulin pump from beta bionics
> 
> Hello I would  like to  ask if any one has experience with the I let pump
> from beta bionics.
> https://www.betabionics.com/ilet-bionic-pancreas/ilet-adults/#:~:text=The%20
> iLet%20Bionic%20Pancreas%20automatically,color%20screen%20and%20brighter%20d
> isplay.     I was  recommended this pump by my endo today.  I don't have
> that  much knowledge about this one.looks that there  is not tha much you
> have to do enter your weight and what kinds of meals your having through the
> day and the rest is done through the algrythm of the  pump.there  is an app
> that  can be used on a smart phone. So I will be getting more info from
> their rep next week. Figured I would ask if anyone had any knowledge about
> this pump or experience with it .   before I met with  the educator next
> week.  
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