# Welcome, introduce yourself here!

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**Created:** [March 22, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145 "2017-03-22T05:07:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/chris/32/382_2.png) [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/welcome-introduce-yourself-here/145/674 "2018-03-17T16:15:08Z")

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Hey Alex, welcome to the forum. Lowering your A1c is great. There have been some good discussions on the 670G on the site. I have attached one of them. The consensus from some of our super users is that if you have an A1c in the 5’s and 6’s, then the 670G doesn’t help that much. But if your A1c is above that, then it helps a lot. Don’t be surprised if it helps you for while, then your skills get better than the pump.

> [@The Auto Mode experience: 670G two weeks in](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-auto-mode-experience-670g-two-weeks-in/2005):
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> Checking back in, here at the end of my second week on auto. Thought it might be interesting to give a more experiential version of what it’s like. First off, It looks the like a regular pump, but it ain’t. I’m just starting to get my head around that. At the macro level, the biggest difference is that you can’t wing it, the way you can with a regular pump. If you’re used to a lot of hands-on, stick ‘n’ rudder control over what your pump is doing, as I have been, this is a big adjustment. F’rin…

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