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10113r114m4 t1_j1iqnf8 wrote

I wasnt saying CGM was a huge improvement to diabetic life, it is. However, to engineer something like a CGM, especially in the mid 2000s wasnt difficult. Im an engineer not related to this field, but I feel like in 2 years, I could make a CGM machine, and that's me being generous with the time. All Im saying is there should be more innovation in this field, but yet, things crawl at a snails pace.

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10113r114m4 t1_j1f2nn9 wrote

Honestly, diabetic technology hasnt improved all that much in the last 30 years. Yea, we have CGM and the pump, which is nice, but honestly I would have thought some automated pancreas would have been invented by now. Like technology flew off to space and diabetic technology seemed to slowly invent new stuff. Comparing the first introduction of the pump to now, it hasnt even changed all that much. There's now a new pod pump with no tubes but that literally just got FDA approved last year. It's ridiculous how slow these innovations come out. As an engineer with diabetes, it just blows my mind how slow innovation is for this disease.

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