How to share looping data with doctors

“Except she is not actually using Dash. She is using Loop (with the Dash pods). So she does not have anything on her Dash PDM.”

This is where my mind was short-circuiting @Elver: I don’t use the Dash PDM at all, like @Eric says! I forgot the Apple Health piece. Yes @Eric, I think somehow overlaying insulin delivery with a blood sugar plot is what I would be looking to share with my dr. @Eric I would love to work on this. I did get the Dexcom info into Tidepool! Thank you everyone. :heart:

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@JessicaD
I just tested it out. Apple Health has everything, both CGM and insulin delivery. You can give it all to your doctor this way.

You can export it as a xml file. It contains ALL the raw data.

If you want to make it presentable, you would have to run some software or script to clean it up and make it something they can look at.

But it’s all there. Here is an example of one line of bolus data, to show you what it looks like:

<Record type="HKQuantityTypeIdentifierInsulinDelivery" sourceName="Bane" sourceVersion="159" [SNIPPED FOR BREVITY] startDate="2025-07-12 17:43:17 -0400" endDate="2025-07-12 17:43:57 -0400" value="1">

But what is all of that?!?! :up_arrow:
:face_with_spiral_eyes:

On July 12th at 5:43 PM (shown above as "startDate=“2025-07-12 17:43:17”), I gave myself 1 unit (shown above as "value=“1"”).

So it’s all there. You’d just need to parse it into something that can be made easy to read. This could be done with many different types of software.

(I think the easiest would be Excel, since you probably already have that, rather than getting you up to speed on something like Python.)

Make sense?

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Are you using DIY Loop? If so, you just need to add your Tidepool login credentials to the Loop Tidepool Service via the Loop app on your phone. Here are the Loop doc links:

Loop Services

Tidepool Mobile App - if you use it, make sure you disable its connection to Apple Health or you will get double uploads.

Loop Tidepool page

@JessicaD I just DM’d you instructions with a few screenshots.

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She does not have Tidepool as a service option in her Loop version.

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Maybe just upgrade to the latest version?? :thinking: It is easy to do, especially with the browser build.

@Eric you forget, you no longer need to learn Python with AI to do the parsing for you, lol

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Most of the engineers in my company are now EXPECTED to use AI tools (Cursor mostly) for writing code. The days of heads down development are gone, or will be gone, in the next 5 years.

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In the next 5 years a coder’s job will be to ensure the LLM is not hallucinating - to validate the code output by a redundant means or an offline source.

Or perhaps we will all be governed by AI programs like Reflection’s Asimov. Things are changing very fast..

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And SKYNET is born! (Sorry, I’m sure its helpful to coders and builders, but I can’t help thinking the number of people that “know” what the code does is dropping from the face of the earth…just a little scary!).

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LOVE the reference! The sad part is that at some point in the future no one will actually know how the code actually works (I assume), it’s just a SAS. What happens when the code works or hallucinates like HAL? Or we suddenly are in the middle of a war game simulation that isn’t simulated? Knowing how it works and how to disable said program will be valuable going forward IMHO

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I will need your clothes, your shoes…and some knees would be nice too.

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There are a bunch of real companies named Skynet. One is actually an AI company that was formed a 2 years ago.

It’s a little bit crazy to pick that name. Are they just not up on cultural references?!?

I mean, nowadays if you last name was “Dahmer”, and you were going to have a boy, and you were picking the first name, would you choose “Jefferey”?

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Just like the company that does meal replacements called “Soylent”. As in Soylent Green (are people)…

Soylent.com

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@elver You didn’t even have to say “green”!

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