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10-07-2007, 11:54 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston
Posts: 45
| | | Keeping track: Diabetites management
So I started using Onetouch Ultra2.
I am writing down the glucose level, what I eat, the details of exercise, the feelings throughout the day in my notebook.
I know that there are software that I could buy that I can just connect to the computer for OneTouch.
How do you guys usually keep it track? |
10-07-2007, 04:36 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Bucks County, PA, USA
Posts: 1,067
| | | I use the One Touch UltraSmart, so it keeps track for me (last 250 entries). Before that, I used the free logbooks. I've not found software to be all that useful, except for my Endo so he can see what's been going on lately. He just downloads from my meter.
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10-07-2007, 07:06 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio
Posts: 174
| | | I use the same meter, but not the software. I use Diabetes Pilot and love it. It's on the web. |
10-07-2007, 07:21 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Royal Oak, Michigan
Posts: 927
| | | I have used software since 2007. I was horrible about writing things down. I love the scatter plot graphs as I can see patterns much more easily.
Currently I use the CareLink on MiniMed's website. It combines EVERYTHING for me into various charts. Readings from my meter, insulin and carbs from my pump all organized for me. You can also add your own stuff into it like infusion site changes, exercise, HbA1c's, ketones etc.
My doc loves the print outs and it is very convienent. I typically upload every Sunday evening and review. More frequently if I'm looking for something specific.
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Type 1 Est.1984
MM 722 and CGMS; Humalog & Symlin
a1c Trying to get below 6... 
6.8 (9.10.08) 
Vitrectomies May 2007 & July 2007
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10-07-2007, 07:31 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 7,314
| | | I use the One Touch software with my UltraSmart. I love it.
__________________  Rest In Peace Jack- 5/1/08. You may be gone from us but you will never be forgotten. Our love goes with you.
Pumping ain't easy but it's well worth the effort to me.
I am a person. I WILL NOT allow myself to be defined by a number!!!!
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10-07-2007, 09:23 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston
Posts: 45
| | I was looking at the site. I was a bit confused. How does it cost? Quote:
Originally Posted by RobiJo  I have used software since 2007. I was horrible about writing things down. I love the scatter plot graphs as I can see patterns much more easily.
Currently I use the CareLink on MiniMed's website. It combines EVERYTHING for me into various charts. Readings from my meter, insulin and carbs from my pump all organized for me. You can also add your own stuff into it like infusion site changes, exercise, HbA1c's, ketones etc.
My doc loves the print outs and it is very convienent. I typically upload every Sunday evening and review. More frequently if I'm looking for something specific. | |
10-07-2007, 10:56 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sacramento California
Posts: 2,515
| | Might want to look at Diabuddies - For Diabetics, From Diabetics as well. Still a work in progress. |
10-08-2007, 08:35 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston
Posts: 45
| | | This is really hard to figure out! |
10-12-2007, 07:34 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,740
| | | Have you gotten the software and cable yet? Without the cable, you will have to write evereything down
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10-12-2007, 09:51 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: B.C., Canada
Posts: 1,879
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Originally Posted by glashalful I use the same meter, but not the software. I use Diabetes Pilot and love it. It's on the web. | Thanks for this link! Looks really good - I just saved it to my favourites to look at it later when i have more time.
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Last A1C - 5.9
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10-12-2007, 11:54 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 10
| | | I was about to start a new thread until I saw this pop up today. I was wondering how others was "manage" their results and their meters.
I'm using three meters at the moment:
At Home: OneTouch UltraSmart (picked up "free" at the TCOYD conference in San Jose last month). I use this meter when I test in the morning, before bedtime, weekends and any other time I need to test at home.
At Work: OneTouch Ultra2 (received "free" from my provider). This is actually my first OneTouch-brand meter and used it as my primary until I received the UltraSmart. I used to carry this back and forth but keeping a meter at work seemed to be more sensible.
On-The-Go: OneTouch UltraMini (received free from Lifescan's web page). I typically carry this one in my briefcase/backpack when I'm out and about or travelling.
For logging, I'm using a paper-computer hybrid. When I was first diagnosed, I logged in one of those school-type paper notebooks-- not only recording my BG levels throughout the day but also my BP, what I was eating and when I was excercising. The smaller/pocket-sized log books didn't have enough room to log everything so I bit the bullet and did it in the big book.
At the end of each week, I'd transfer only the BG readings to an Excel spreadsheet to plot out trends over the following periods:
- weekly
- the last two weeks
- monthly
- since Dx'ed
- and at various points (e.g. since last Dr visit or change in medication)
For the longest time, I would carry the paper notebook back and forth from work. But I've recently started to leave the paper book at home and log my work-readings in Google Notebook. Later (which may be that night or that weekend), I'll transfer the readings from Google Notebook to the paper notebook and Excel).
I recently obtained a cable and downloaded the OneTouch Diabetes Management software and giving that a try.
There may be a point where I'll stop the detailed paper logging and go completely computer-based. But the paper logging did help me with starting up and keeping up with the control.
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A1C
Feb 07: 11.4
May 07: 7.4
Aug 07: 6.5
Oct 07: 6.2
Jan 08: 6.1
Apr 08: 6.6 (but I was dealing with hyperthyroidism)
Aug 08: 5.9
Metformin, Glipizide, Lisinopril, Lovastatin, low dosage aspirin (as well as PTU for hyperthyroidism), walking and watching what I eat! |
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