Oh, here's a virtual pump you can play with.
Here's the
Animas 1250 Virtual Pump.
Now some of what it can do isn't exactly supported in this virtual pump, for instance, you can turn on the advanced bolus features, but until you actually hook up to your pump via IR interface (from your laptop or PC) you won't have the carb counts from your favorite foods loaded on it (that feature won't do much on the virtual pump).
Go into set up, and turn on Advanced Bolus. Try entering my settings. Remember, the advanced set up stuff you'd only have to do once, and when you/your doctor make changes. Otherwise it's fairly idiot-proof.
Try putting in the settings from my pump. Audio bolus is turned off, Adv Bolus is on, Reminders are on. Max basal 1 unit, max bolus is 12 u. Max daily is 50U.
Set the auto-off if you tend to have reactions when you sleep in.
Insulin to carb for me is 1U to 15g carbs.
ISF is 57 (one unit for every 57 mg/dl it is away from my "normal range."). My Target range is 110 mg/dl +/- 20. Feel free to change that if you'd have it set differently. Mine ends up being 9-130 as "normal." YMMV, of course.
I have IOB-2 turned on, the duration is three hours. What that does is impact how much it subtracts from your correction boluses for Insulin On Board. In other words, boluses you gave in a certain time range (in my case, three hours, YMMV).
Once you get that all entered (that'll get you used to interface pretty well), try giving a bolus. Go to the menu, pick Bolus. From there, pick CarbSmart if you're having a meal, or ezBG if you're testing after a meal to apply a correction dose. Enter the number of carbs and/or your blood sugar. It'll give you a total and show you how it calculated it. Then you enter that dose (or more or less if you don't agree) and tell it to give it to you.
