accu chek insight

[IceLover]

can you give a bolus straight from the pump or can you only do it from the handset

 

[iHs]

I think you can just use the pump if you want from what I have seen

 

[tim2000s]

I've seen @ewelina do it straight from the pump.

 

[Gaz-M]

you can give a bolus straight from the pump

 

[ewelina]

You can do it straight from the pump but you need to remember it will be taken as a correction bolus. If you need to do a correction few hours later it wont be accurate

 

[Snapsy]

I've never bolused straight from my Insight pump - I always test and then let the handset work it out for me.

However, I do use the pump itself for setting temp basal rates, as I often set these based on a Libre bip rather than a blood test result - I use TBRs an awful lot, and it's easy to set these via the pump rather than the handset, I find. If I'm testing, though, that means I've got the handset out and on anyway, so whenever I'm testing and then also needing to do something involving insulin, I'll just program it from the handset.

This thread has prompted me to review my instructions manual, though - as I think I really ought to know how to do everything from the pump!!!

 

[Gaz-M]

what is handy is that if you test your BS and say your over your set limit ie- 7.9mmol and you are eating out and want to give an extended bolus, the handset will not let you do this.

You can however do it from the pump itself, so if you input the carbs on the hanset and let it work out your insulin dose you can then do the extended bolus from the pump using the insulin dosage fro the handset.

 

[Snapsy]

Oh, thanks for that, @Gaz-M - had wondered how to get round that one!

 

[Gaz-M]

Oh, thanks for that, @Gaz-M - had wondered how to get round that one!

me too but I was messing about the other week and found out

 

[Medusa41]

Yes it's great - I have done it straight from the pump on a couple of occasions. As others have said it treats it as a correction dose.