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

Sun Sep 21 21:11:40 UTC 2025

Gary, did you ever get your hands on the pump itself? I wonder about filling the cartridge and such. I’ve heard that the people who did the best with it didn’t bowl us for meals at all. It really seems to assume that your patterns are going to be the same every day. If you vary it, that’s when you start crashing. that part did not interest me much. Having said that, I’d love to get my hands on it, though. At least now it’s starting to be paired with some CGM‘s, I forget which ones. But for a long time it wasn’t. But I’m glad there are lots of different kinds of pumps to meet the needs of different people. That’s as it should be.
Veronica.

Veronica Elsea, owner, Laurel Creek Music Designs

> On Sep 21, 2025, at 1:45 PM, gmelconian619 at gmail.com wrote:
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> Veronica, I did play with  the app, the app was accessible on android.  What could be accessible on android may not be accessible on I O S  and vise versa. When added up all the cost it was not going to  be worth it in the  long run. My endo was trying to  make life a bit easier with insulin pumps and doing all the  hard core heavy calculation lifting . the advantage  of the I let pump , was that  you could enter in your weight , the amount of the meal whether it was breakfast, lunch , dinner , or snack, then give it the  amount or size and it  would doo all the heavy lifting of carb ratios carb counting and adding or subtraction of insulin ,   and all that messy stuff,  that  I sometime get and don’t get right .   that was  the only reason,  we decided to  take a look at the I let pump from beta bionics.
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> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] re i let insulin pump from beta bionics
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> 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
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> 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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