MM check glucose timer

JanTx · #1 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 03:50 PM

I use the Bolus Wizard to put in BG, carbs, and to set a timer to remind me to check my BG in 2 hours. If I decide to check it in 1 hours and 45 minutes the pump doesn't seem to know that I've done that and the alarm will ring at the 2 hour mark anyway. That doesn't make sense to me. No, it's not a big deal, but there should be a time frame in which the alarm would be cancelled because I've entered BG numbers shortly before the deadline. It could even say "cancel alarm?" so I could push a button to cancel.

Also, I wish there were a way to enter hypo info in Wizard and to set the alarm for 15 minutes for a recheck. I know I can go to the alarm clock and do that there, but I wish the pump retained BG numbers even when I'm not bolusing.

Does either of those make any sense? Is there a pump that does either? Does mine, but I haven't figured it out yet? MM722

xMenace · #2 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 04:16 PM

I've complained of not recognizing the BG tests before. I find it very annoying.

Funnygrl · #3 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 07:25 PM

The not recognizing glucose checks thing would annoy me. I don't know why minimed set it up that way. Cozmo has the hypo alarm that you can set to alarm a set time after a below target reading. They have the same for high glucose. Maybe Minimed will add it in an upgrade.

JanTx · #4 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 07:43 PM

I may work better if you're using their meter and letting the pump read the meter. I did that for a week and really liked the idea. But I still don't think it had an alarm after a low reading. Please don't think I'm unhappy or trashing this pump. I'm just trying to learn to use it to its best advantage and hoping that some of these things I think of are really in there - I just haven't found them yet. I'm at my two week anniversary and feel so comfortable. I LOVE taking a smaller purse because I don't have so much junk. I LOVE being able to leave my purse in the car if I want. In south Texas you don't do that with vials and pens in there because of the heat. Now that my only insulin is with me - no purse! I love not getting out a pen and alcohol pad when I'm eating in public. Push a few buttons and I'm good to go. I love not having a day's range go from 46 to 346. LOVE my pump.

Next Saturday I'm going to an advanced pumping class that MM holds. I feel like I'm ready to move it up a notch. Hope so anyway!

ToddyC · #5 (**permalink**) 11-05-2006, 06:08 PM

Yep, it does keep all of the readings if you are using the BD meter that sends the info to the pump...then the readings are stored whether you are doing a bolus or not. I know some people aren't thrilled with the BD meter, though, so that would be a personal choice you would need to make -- I don't know of any other way to get the "non-bolus" readings into the pump. I use the BD meter and then I also upload the readings to the MM Carelink site for running reports and basically for storing the information. For what it's worth, I've checked the BD meter readings with a few of my other meters, and I've found it to be pretty consistent with the other meters I have. My BD meter is pretty new, as I just got it this summer.

poodlebone · #6 (**permalink**) 11-05-2006, 06:38 PM

These things annoy me as well. If a BG is entered before the alarm sounds, it should cancel the alarm. I also hate that you can't set a BG reminder unless you take insulin, and that all BG reminders are in 1/2 hours.

I also wish there was a way to cancel a BG reminder. Sometimes I have one set and then I realize that when it's due to sound, I'll be somewhere that I don't want it beeping. I know I can go in and set the alarm type tp vibrate, but we shouldn't have to work around these things.

JanTx · #7 (**permalink**) 11-05-2006, 06:56 PM

I just started pumping 2 weeks ago so my BD meter should be as new as they get. At higher numbers it is about 30 points higher than my UltraSmart. At lower numbers that changes to 15-20 points different. But when I was feeling BAD in the middle of the night and the BD read 70-something and my US read 50-something I just didn't feel I could trust it. Then there's the problem of paying double for the BD strips over the US ones because of my insurance. I've used the US ever since it came out and know how I feel in relation to its readings. So .. I upload the pump info with the BD meter - I use Carelink also - but that's all I do with it.

I got the Paradigm Pal with my pump, but haven't used it. Is it the same as Carelink, but you just don't have to be on the internet to use it? Anyone know?

poodlebone · #8 (**permalink**) 11-05-2006, 07:10 PM

The Paradigm Pal software is just to save, change and upload your pump settings. I guess if you'd rather see everything on a big computer monitor instead of a little b&w screen it's useful, but I have never bothered with it.

kgm0612 · #9 (**permalink**) 11-06-2006, 07:04 AM

I also find it very annoying when the alarm starts sounding to check my BS when I just checked it a few minutes before the 2-hour mark. You would think the pump would have a "window" of 15 mins before or after the last testing.

Also........I have complained to BD about the difference in meter readings on their meter compared to the One Touch Ultra I was using prior to pumping. My reading was off 30 points over the weekend.......so which one do you believe when you're running high and need to do a correction? I'm finishing up the BD strips I have left and I'm switching back to the One Touch.

Karen

ToddyC · #10 (**permalink**) 11-06-2006, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poodlebone

The Paradigm Pal software is just to save, change and upload your pump settings. I guess if you'd rather see everything on a big computer monitor instead of a little b&w screen it's useful, but I have never bothered with it.

You can also do the opposite -- make pump setting changes on the Pal software and then download the new settings to the pump.....but I admit I've never done that. I just use the Pal software to keep a backup of all my pump settings.