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Multiple daily injections users: Do you use a diabetes-specific app on a smart phone to track your insulin dosing?
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When I use MDI, such as a break from pump use, I just kept track mentally. After nearly 60 years of living with T1D in my body it is second nature for me.
I agree… I call it part of life.. going on 70 years now..
I use the InPen app for my Humalog and love it! It shows when I took the dose, how much insulin I have on board, and sends me a reminder to check my glucose once the insulin is no longer working.
I have not gone to an app yet…still using CGM/Medtronics pump. Need to make the cross over!
And all my 45 years of being diabetic I’ve never been able to afford the pump and accessories because the copay and deductibles were way too high.
I accidentally pushed enter before I finished my comment on the keeping track of the multi doses I have to take a day. I did try the Inpen for a while, but it wasn’t registering the amount of insulin I was taking if I didn’t use the carb recommendation setting for each of my meals. If I eat the same thing every morning and every afternoon, I don’t have to use the carb recommendation option, but found it wasn’t registering the insulin intake without using that option so I stopped using it.
I am not sure if I am answering this correctly or not. On Omni pod there is the Display and View apps that show insulin dosing
I have a paper logbook in which I write what I ate and how much and when I took both insulins. This allows me to note what changes to make (take less for this meal, raise or lower basal, move timing of basal). Sometimes I also log carbs and insulin into Dexcom a month before an endocrinologist appointment.
i enter the insulin dose into the scanner for my libre.
Stopped MDI in 2007, went to pump systems through 2018. Started new generation 1x/day basal and Inhaled for everything else for the past 3yrs.
I don’t miss the slow MDI insulin!
I use the InPen and love it! Lately, I feel a pull towards the Omnipod 5, but…..I just think MDI is for me and the smart pen makes it easy to dose!
I use the Dexcom G6 Clarity app
My pump controller (PDM) records all insulin delivery and blood sugar data.
I both write them down and use the DEXCOM logging feature.
I log my insulin doses in my CGM. When I download my receiver it shows a nice graph of insulin dose to sugar response.
The app for Dexcom is really limited to Apple phones and Samsung Galaxy phones. I can’t afford either, so I use the receiver.
I enter each insulin dose on the Dexcom app on my iPhone. This information is forever accessible on the Dexcom Clarity recording app.
My older brother was a mathematician, and he became a T1D at 23. He died at 67. I was 5 years younger but was diagnosed at 40 and started insulin at 45 when the doctor realized the Draconian diet he had ordered wasn’t working. My brother designed a mathematical matrix for calculating how much insulin to take based on my weight, blood sugar, and carb intake. I’ve successfully used this for 30 years. My endocrinologist has a copy.
The Dexcom app allows recording ‘events’ — fast acting insulin, long lasting insulin, and carbohydrate intake. The latter is inadequate to capture diet in my view.
use a spreadsheet to track dosage / carbs / exercise / weather conditions. I’m an avid cyclist so recording above greatly assists potential glucose fluctuation.
I use the Dexcom G6 app like I see many others use.
I am on an insulin pump
I use the menu in the Dexcom receiver.
I use a 3 event timer. I can mentally keep up with dosage but timing is so critical. Know the timing of prebolus, meal . Looking at cgm value and time from meal whether a correction is required. I get great results.
I feel like I should track it on my cgm app, but I track it mentally unless I’m having stress or an illness, then I usually end up writing down my doses in a notebook where I sometimes track new foods/meals and new exercise regimens
I use the InPen and love it!!
I use an insulin pump
No, all these apps are only allowed to use if you live in the US !!!
So much for co-operative TD1 relationships !!!
I use my phone to enter the dose, so yes, absolutely. (DIY Loop)
Whoops, missed the part about MDI in the question. 🫠