Hypo Manager

[Funnygrl]

On the hypo manager, on the Cozmo 1800, are you suppose to be able to scroll down to over rule the suggested carb intake? Cause when I do, it takes me back to a screen to start the process over again, and again, and again...etc forever.

[Lloyd]

On the hypo manager, on the Cozmo 1800, are you suppose to be able to scroll down to over rule the suggested carb intake? Cause when I do, it takes me back to a screen to start the process over again, and again, and again...etc forever.

I just look at the suggestion, and if I don't agree with it or its too small to bother with, I cancel out. If you agree with it, and you are doing a meal bolus, it subtracts the recommended carbos from the amount of carbos you say you are eating, and figures a bolus for the result.

But no, you can't change it's recommendation. The recommendation does take into account insulin on board, so I usually only cancel out if it says to take 2 grams of carbo and it's not mealtime.

I think I'm not explaining this well.... LOL

-Lloyd

[Funnygrl]

I think I just need to disable it. The problem for me is that my correction factor is 50-60, depending on time of day, while my carb ratio is only 10-13 depending on time of day. So say I had 50 grams for dinner. That's 5 units. So I wait 2.5 hours (my time out for hypo manager) and it still says I have, say, 2 units on board. I made that up, I didn't figure it out. Well, hypo manager thinks that 2 units it gonna drop me by 100. If I just took 2 units for the heck of it, yeah, that might happen. But if I took it to cover a meal 2.5 hours ago, that's not gonna happen for me. I tried changing the time out to 3 hours, we'll see.

[Lloyd]

The way I look at it, the pump is a way cool tool, but it's not magic. You still have to figure things out, and try things out like you are doing.
I still don't have my correction ratio right, but I don't have to use the correction all that much (<3%) and many of the corrections are small enough that an error doesn't matter.

I am taking 80% of the insulin I did on 70/30, eating a lot less, exercising more, and still not loosing weight; likely because I am using food more efficiently. Loosing weight will be the big challange for me, as it's always been. Every one of my diabetes oral meds + insulin lists weight gain as the #2 side effect. *sigh*

-Lloyd