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Multiple daily injections (MDI) users: Do you use an app or other device to track your insulin dosing? Share the tools you use in the comments below!
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Inpen for Fiasp, nothing for Tresiba.
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When I was MDI I used the Jade Insulin Dose Calc app. I found it very useful
I used to use MDI but have just started on a pump and CGS Combo. When I used the Freestyle Libre, I would record doses in the comments section.
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For years I kept a logbook with pen and paper notations. I took that book to my Dr. apts and he would highlight highs and lows with colored markers. Then it went to downloading the meter numbers and now it is downloading my Abbott Freestyle Libre reader. I have given up keeping a logbook so gave my extras books to my endo and they were so appreciative because many of their seniors still ask for them. Technology is replacing paper and pencil, newspapers, mail, and bill paying. I like technology until it doesn’t work and you have to call Comcast for help! You have to be so careful with technology too.
I use a pump most of the time, but I take a couple pump breaks per year. Tresiba & Apidra by pen without the use of technology. It’s a nice break.
We my older brother was also a T1d. He was a mathematician.
InPen for Humalog is great for showing Insulin On Board. I also love the notification that appears once the last dose is no longer acting….that way I can check my BS and see if a correction dose is needed! I don’t use anything for my Tresiba.
Didn’t get to finish my comment. My older brother, a T1d from age 23 until he died at 67, was a mathematician, and designed a matrix for me for breakfast and dinner doses (I don’t eat lunch) and how much to take if I’m not eating but running higher than the norm. This was for short term insulin. Time release is one stable shot in the morning. This has worked for 25 years.
Record my inhalations in the Dexcom app. Nothing for Tresiba other than a phone reminder that reminds me nightly to take long acting injection.
Oops I answered this question wrong because I am not MDI. I am on a pump. Sorry
I use the Dexcom G6 app to enter my carbs and basal/bolus insulin dosages.
I use xDrip+.
I use my Dexcom G6 iPhone app to record insulin doses but I also still write it on a formatted blank spreadsheet. I hate to admit it, but it’s still easier for me to look at my paper to quickly identify trends and see how best to dose (basal and bolus) depending on activity, meals, BS, …
I’ve been on a pump for over 8 years, but have recently been considering being able to switch to an MDI format to use when I go scuba diving (which I was actively doing before starting on the pump). The pump protocol had effectively killed my scuba diving options.
For what it’s worth, I started scuba diving long after becoming a T1D in 1980. I’ve logged 100s of dives and even have a solo divers certificate.
I currently don’t use MDI, but I did use an app when I did. I don’t remember the name of it though. It was comparable with a Windows phone.
I’ve been on MDI since diagnosis 37yrs ago. I now log my insulin doses in my Dexcom G6 app. Before that, good old hand written log book.
I’m a T1D for 55+ years doing multiple injections each day. I gave adjustments and slides based on current and past performance. All of these are recorded the same way they were when I started, in a log book/paper chart. The algorithms I use are much more complex, but I’ve advanced a bit since I was 7 years old, too. A big issue I have with electronic recoding is ad hoc notes are difficult to use.
I still use a log, too. I gave it up for a little while when I was using the Omnipod, but picked it up again when I gave up on the pump. I make a lot of typos on the phone and get frustrated so instead I make my own log in Excel and print it out each week. It has all the ratios for my corrections in the margin on the right and if I need more space for notes I can always write on the back.
I use the DexCom IPhone app for insulin doses, exercise, carbs. Information is automatically transmitted to my provider.
I’m a T1D and an MDI user since 1981. With the switch to lowcarb (LCHF) diet 11 years ago I basically take the same number of doses and insulin units every day. 24 U Lantus (at lunch) and 2 U of Humalog for the dinner, in total. I eat only 2 times a day, with total 20 grams of carb/day.
If the bg, for some reason, gets over 8.5 mmol/l (153 mg/dL), I take 2 U extra Humalog. But that seldom happens.
By eating low amount of carbs, and keep the E% of fat and protein the same for all meals, I don’t need to adjust my doses anymore. I’ve set my doses rather fixed and adjust my food intake based on the amount of insulin I use.
A great freedom to not have to count carb and try to figure out the insulin doses for every meal and exercise.
I keep a notebook with BG, injection amts, and food eaten. I also track BP and weight weekly.
I use the Dexcom app (Dexcom Clarity is AMAZING!!! and Microsoft Excel and some Business Intelligence tools to supplement it.