Aotearoa Diabetes Collective

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Some tips and tricks for maintaining Bluetooth connections between your phone and diabetes devices. We know how annoying...
30/12/2025

Some tips and tricks for maintaining Bluetooth connections between your phone and diabetes devices.

We know how annoying it is to struggle with constant signal loss alerts even when your devices are well within the recommended distance for Bluetooth connectivity, so we thought we would share some tips to help maintain a strong Bluetooth connection between your devices.

Did you know insulin and GLP1 receptor agonists (like Trulicity, Victoza, Saxenda and Wegovy) can degrade if they get to...
22/12/2025

Did you know insulin and GLP1 receptor agonists (like Trulicity, Victoza, Saxenda and Wegovy) can degrade if they get too hot! This can lead to unexplained high glucose levels and ketones for those with type 1 diabetes or type 3c diabetes.

If you’re heading away, or going to be out for the day in hot weather with your insulin, make sure you have a way to keep your insulin and/or GLP1RA cool.

Meri Kirihimete from our growing team at Aotearoa Diabetes Collective! We are so proud of your team and incredibly grat...
18/12/2025

Meri Kirihimete from our growing team at Aotearoa Diabetes Collective! We are so proud of your team and incredibly grateful for the opportunities we have had this year to support people with diabetes and healthcare professionals! We are also so grateful for our online community and the support we get from so many of you! Have a wonderful, safe and happy holiday break with your whānau and friends.

We are soooo close to the end of the year and with that comes a lot of extra events, pressure and expectations… We know ...
18/12/2025

We are soooo close to the end of the year and with that comes a lot of extra events, pressure and expectations… We know this is a time of year where people living with diabetes and caring for people with diabetes have a whole other mental load.

This post is about being kind to yourself, some ways to focus on small wins & a few tips to prep for the holiday break.

Control IQ+ update for Tandem t:slim X2 pump - what you need to know! From today new Tandem pumps are coming out of the ...
05/12/2025

Control IQ+ update for Tandem t:slim X2 pump - what you need to know!

From today new Tandem pumps are coming out of the box with the Control IQ+ update, and from 10th December (next week), you will be able to do the update!

What are the key changes?
- More CGM options, specifically the long awaiting Freestyle Libre 3 Plus CGM compatibility*
- Temporary basal rates are back
- Longer extended bolus options (up to 8 hours)
- Wider indications for age, weights and total daily insulin dose requirements.

Let us know if you use a Tandem pump what are you most excited about?

*to use Freestyle Libre 3 Plus CGM with Tandem t:slim X2 you will need to do the Control IQ+ update, and have a compatible mobile phone with the full bolusing features of the Tandem mobile app (and NFC). You can still use Dexcom G7 or Dexcom G6 with or without a compatible mobile phone.

There is an urgent product recall for some FreeStyle Libre 3 plus sensors that are reading falsely low! This may affect ...
26/11/2025

There is an urgent product recall for some FreeStyle Libre 3 plus sensors that are reading falsely low!

This may affect people who are using the FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensor with YpsoPump and CamAPS FX.

It can be dangerous if the sensor is reading falsely low and the insulin pump algorithm is reducing or not delivering insulin. Please always check your glucose with a finger prick capillary blood glucose check if your symptoms don’t match the sensor reading.

Follow the instructions in this post to check if your sensor/s are affected by the recall.

Website link: https://www.freestylecheck.com/nz-en/home.html

Mediray Technical Support:
0800 106 100 option 2

If your sensors are affected you will be provided with replacements. Please follow the instructions on the website or call Mediray if you have extra questions or have experienced problems from an affected sensor.

This is another post where we challenge kōrero around diabetes such as this myth that ‘you will go blind’ if you get dia...
18/11/2025

This is another post where we challenge kōrero around diabetes such as this myth that ‘you will go blind’ if you get diabetes. Unfortunately so many people hear statements like this, and often it’s when they are first diagnosed with prediabetes or diabetes.

While these comments often come from a place of wanting to motivate people to ‘look after themselves’ it’s often unhelpful and causes a lot of fear.

Yes diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in working age adults and we should do everything we can to prevent complications. But blindness or diabetic retinopathy is not inevitable and preventing diabetes complications like eye damage is a team effort between you/your whānau AND your healthcare team.

In this post we have provided some information about screening and how we can prevent and manage eye damage from diabetes (diabetic retinopathy).

Key messages:
- Eye damage (diabetic retinopathy) is not inevitable.
- Eye screening is free, quick and doesn’t hurt.
- Early damage often doesn’t have any symptoms which is why screening is so important.
- Aiming for an HbA1c less than 53 mmol/mol is helpful in preventing and slowing eye damage.
- There is a legacy effect from having tight glucose control in prevent eye damage (even if glucose levels rise later).
- Blood pressure control is just as important as glucose control in people with diabetic retinopathy.
(The goal blood pressure is less than 130/80 mmHg)
- It is important to keep LDL cholesterol low (below 1.4 mmol/L) in people with diabetic retinopathy. (Some cholesterol medications also have extra benefits for eye conditions caused by diabetes).

If you or a loved one has low vision or blindness caused by diabetes (or anything else) check out the Blind Low Vision NZ website for information and resources.

The focus of Diabetes Action Month in Aotearoa is around the increasing rates of diabetes in rangatahi (young people). T...
17/11/2025

The focus of Diabetes Action Month in Aotearoa is around the increasing rates of diabetes in rangatahi (young people). This post shares some information about when young people should be screened for diabetes and also why.

Not all young people need to be screened for diabetes, but any young person who has symptoms of high blood glucose levels (hyperglycaemia) needs an urgent assessment. More commonly young people that present with symptoms will have type 1 diabetes, but sometimes they will have type 2 diabetes or another form of diabetes such as Monogenic diabetes (MODY).

Often type 2 diabetes doesn’t present with a lot of symptoms, and there are some young people who are considered higher risk who should get regular screening from the age of 10.
It seems really young, but certain factors, especially having a strong family history can hugely increase young people’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

The reason this matter is because through big studies of young people with type 2 diabetes, we now know that when young people develop type 2 diabetes, it is more aggressive and leads to complications earlier in life!

All young people with any form of diabetes deserve good quality, wrap around care!

It is super important that we know the signs of high blood glucose levels, but also the times when we should think about screening rangatahi.

World Diabetes Day 2025! It feels a bit weird to say ‘happy’ diabetes day, so instead we thought given the theme is diab...
14/11/2025

World Diabetes Day 2025!

It feels a bit weird to say ‘happy’ diabetes day, so instead we thought given the theme is diabetes in the workplace we want to celebrate ALL of the people living with diabetes AND the whānau supporting people with diabetes for how they do all of this while still doing their paid and/or unpaid mahi in their homes and communities. Because not everyone has paid employment and that doesn’t mean they aren’t also doing important mahi and contributing to their whānau and communities!

We are in awe of the people we work with and we think you are all incredible!

Challenging kōrero we often hear around diabetes - this is a classic one! “Type 2 diabetes is caused by lifestyle” Truth...
10/11/2025

Challenging kōrero we often hear around diabetes - this is a classic one! “Type 2 diabetes is caused by lifestyle” Truth: It’s not that simple.

In this post we discuss how harmful this type of comment can be, how it contributes to blame, shame, stigma and ignores all of the other factors that contribute to someone’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes. And nobody needs to be told that they caused their diabetes! What people do need is kind, compassionate and evidence-based care.

The key thing we want to do is offer some alternative ways to discuss this topic and remind everyone that nobody ‘chooses’ to get any form of diabetes. Everyone deserves care that is free from blame and shame!

This is one for the people who have ever been told that they shouldn’t eat fruit because they have diabetes! Just becaus...
09/11/2025

This is one for the people who have ever been told that they shouldn’t eat fruit because they have diabetes!

Just because you have diabetes, doesn’t mean you should miss out on fruit! Fruit IS a part of a healthy, well balanced diet! This post explores some of the facts about why we should have 1-2 serves of fruit per day and that this is in fact recommended by our nutrition guidelines.

https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/assets/For-the-health-sector/Health-sector-guidance/Active-Families/eating-activity-guidelines-new-zealand-adults-updated-2020-oct22.pdf

Throughout diabetes awareness month we are going to challenge some of the damaging kōrerō we hear about diabetes. We all...
03/11/2025

Throughout diabetes awareness month we are going to challenge some of the damaging kōrerō we hear about diabetes.

We all hear many things about diabetes and while knowledge is growing, there is still plenty of shame, stigma, and many many myths to contend with both within the community and the healthcare system.

So this month we are going to be debunking myths, and challenging some narratives by offering alternative kōrerō for how we speak about diabetes..

Feel free to comment or send us a DM to share some of the kōrerō you would like us to feature this month!

*edit: Thank you to the person who corrected our use of te reo Māori, kindly calling us forward to correct our double tohutō (macron) on the word kōrero. Ngā mihi!

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