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Old 11-07-2008, 10:14 AM
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How exactly does your pump handle bolus types?

I have moved for some months now to a therapy of exclusively square bolus or dual wave with maximum of 1.5u immediate. The reason isn't important here, suffice it to say that avoiding immediate delivery has improved my control out of sight, strange body that I have.

My minimed is a little disgruntled about this habit I have. I spend a lot of niggling seconds every day cajoling it away from it's recomended bolusing. Here are the scenarios:

- If I bolus for carbs only, it either keeps the recommendation on square if I used it last time (cool), but if I go to a dual wave it always recommends something like 70/30, which I fully understand but which I have to keep slowly resetting back to 1.5 immediate, the rest square.

- If I bolus for carbs/correction, or just correction, it decides I can't have square (unless it deems no correction is necessary in which case it's back in the options... just to confuse things again). I do have the option for a dual, with fiddling again needed. Again I understand the reasoning for excluding square when some correction is required, mind you I think it's an overly meddlesome and restrictive decision. And most specifically for me, for whom a square works a lot faster than an immediate.

I'm not wingeing here, I do understand I'm in the minority as far as difficulties with instant subcutaneous delivery, even so I am curious if other pump types are more flexible than this. In either providing square as an option at all times, and/or better control over default settings/better at "remembering" your own dual settings. I'd be obliged for some feedback from users of other brands.
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