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Type I diabetes needs different tracker
The diabetes tracker is great but we would like to suggest some adjustments.
We are using this as a family to track our teen son's new disease. We would like to be able to track the disease by each dose. For instance - we need to be able to enter the time of the test - not just "Before/after x meal" We are on high management and we need to see if a missed dose or miscalculation on a meal makes a difference. And there are occasional times that he is low and we have to track several times in a short period until he gets back to the target zone.
It would be cool if we could enter a time, a bg reading, a carb count, and amount insulin taken. (That is calculated for bg and for carbs). Having this all on one window would be AWESOME! Then later if he shoots up to a high reading we can look to see if he took the proper amount or skipped a step.
Missed doses are a problem and if we could check a box that says missed dose or miscalculation, then we could track how many times a day there is a problem and track the improvement in that area.
Or we would like to be able to change the title of the labels. For instance: we would like to change the After breakfast to After 1st period, and the after lunch to after school. And we would like to add - "Before lunch lows" this has been a period were he gets low occasionally and we need to see how often.
Thank you for your program and your help.
We are using this as a family to track our teen son's new disease. We would like to be able to track the disease by each dose. For instance - we need to be able to enter the time of the test - not just "Before/after x meal" We are on high management and we need to see if a missed dose or miscalculation on a meal makes a difference. And there are occasional times that he is low and we have to track several times in a short period until he gets back to the target zone.
It would be cool if we could enter a time, a bg reading, a carb count, and amount insulin taken. (That is calculated for bg and for carbs). Having this all on one window would be AWESOME! Then later if he shoots up to a high reading we can look to see if he took the proper amount or skipped a step.
Missed doses are a problem and if we could check a box that says missed dose or miscalculation, then we could track how many times a day there is a problem and track the improvement in that area.
Or we would like to be able to change the title of the labels. For instance: we would like to change the After breakfast to After 1st period, and the after lunch to after school. And we would like to add - "Before lunch lows" this has been a period were he gets low occasionally and we need to see how often.
Thank you for your program and your help.
I gave up about 30 years ago on everything that just does 'before meal' 'after meal'. What I do now (the idea was given me by my pump trainer) is an excel spreadsheet. I have a column for every hour (of course I could do every 30 minutes, but it wouldn't print nicely to take to the doctor). Then for every day I hace a row for 1) blood glucose 2) carbs 3) meal bolus (insulin) 4) correction bolus (insulin) 5) notes. This can be customized so you can add a row if you are using more than one type of insulin. This allows you to see the the interaction of time of day, food, insulin, and whatever you put into the notes row. THis could be exercise, new infusion site if on a pump, if a high fat food such as pizza was part of the meal, or whatever you need. I make a code to cover the notes; for example 'site' can be a site change, 'e15' could be 15 minutes of exercise. More data, can show more than logs. Over time, it is essential to do both good control and good living. This helps.
Thank you for your input and suggestions, I will be sure to forward this over to our team :)
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