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Just Laura

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Hello all,
Does anyone else use this machine and enter the meal carb value AFTER eating?
My 5 year old daughter, newly diagnosed, has just been switched to this machine which I'm sure is fab but I'm struggling with it.
Because she's such a picky eater, we never know actually how much of her meal she will eat. Therefore we enter the carb value she has actually taken on board, when she's finished. Or at least we should...
Does anyone have a step by step guide how to do this. I've managed it once but now just can't seem to get it right.
It's driving me insane! I'll see out DSN on Monday but if anyone knows they may save me some stress for tomorrow's meals!
Thanks everyone
Laura


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Ok JustLaura...

I take it that you are

A) doing blood test
B) after meal typing in cho value.. When daughter has finished..
C) letting meter calculate bolus
D) injecting what machine says

Is that right?
 
Hiya,
It's what I should be doing and what I thought I was doing but it seems to open up a new diary entry every time instead of the one where I did the blood test and given the correction dose, based solely on that.
Think I just need to do it a few more times to get it right. I just hate the feeling that I am the one in sole control for how she feels (she is grumpy and very upset when she's high) and don't like not getting things right!
x


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Every time you press 'confirm' you are basically telling meter that you have done that action..

The meter will then open up another blank screen, next time, as it thinks either you have confirmed that action or you pressed cancel or turned ut off to say thst you didnt do anything. So again it will remember the blood test to memory if one is taken under my data.. But unless you press top right button to confirm, the meter doesnt know that you have done what it has suggested....
 
Once you have confirmed anything whether dosage, blood test or health...

I believe if you have given just a correction dose by itself, it may still hold memory of that correction dose providing that under your settings that your offset and acting time have been entered.

It does sound so complicated.. But honest... You will get used to it very quickly..

Sx
 
Brilliant...
It will give you trends that will help providing you enter postmeal, bedtime etc..
Its my favourite meter of all of them.
Are you getting peace in mind with having to handle your daughters diabetes ?
 
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