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Any current pump models feature an 'audio bolus'?

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NoelCP

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LADA
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Hello,

I used Animas Ping and 540IR before it and loved the Audio Bolus feature. If you're not familiar it allows the users to program either 0.5u or 1.0u per button press, and each time you press the button a Beep sounds to verify it got the button pressed. It does not deliver before verifying what you've asked it to do, then has you press the button to confirm or cancel. This was so useful for those times when you know you needed x number of units and you could actually do the bolus blind, for example with the pump in your pocket so you did this by feel w/ audio confirmation.

Unfortunately Animas folded and I can no longer get reservoirs for it even though it works fine still :arghh:

Anyone know if ANY other pumps offer this?

Thanks!
 
Sorry. Tandem has me confirming twice or thrice before I can even deliver a dose. And has a pre specified limit so you can't accidentally add a zero and overdose!
I look forward to when I can give it voice commands but suspect most pump tech has a high safety barrier to avoid making it too easy to do this in the pocket as you describe. Insulin pens can dose blind (via the clicks) I suppose.
 
I used to have an Animas and confess I found that feature unreliable so never used it.
Now there are pumps with phone apps to control them, I think the feature is less necessary.
It is certainly quicker and easier and less obtrusive to open an app on my phone and give myself a bolus than it was to extract my Animas from wherever it was hiding, unlock it and attempt the audio bolus two or three times before I gave up.
 
Thanks Nicole. I'm looking at Tandem right now and the main plus for it is the cost for a cash payer it's the lowest so far.
 
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I used to have an Animas and confess I found that feature unreliable so never used it.
Now there are pumps with phone apps to control them, I think the feature is less necessary.
It is certainly quicker and easier and less obtrusive to open an app on my phone and give myself a bolus than it was to extract my Animas from wherever it was hiding, unlock it and attempt the audio bolus two or three times before I gave up.
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That is such a foreign experience to mine. No need to extract anything--I just reached in pants pocket where it lived, while driving, or taking a walk, or watching TV and dose accordingly--with hand on pump, no need to remove it from my pocket! Nothing can compare in terms of "quick and unobtrusive" the way I used the Audio Bolus feature. Sounds like you never really learned how to use it. There was never a need to lock the pump for starters. I'd happily buy another Ping but unfortunately they are no longer.
 
NoelCP said:
That is such a foreign experience to mine. No need to extract anything--I just reached in pants pocket where it lived, while driving, or taking a walk, or watching TV and dose accordingly--with hand on pump, no need to remove it from my pocket! Nothing can compare in terms of "quick and unobtrusive" the way I used the Audio Bolus feature. Sounds like you never really learned how to use it. There was never a need to lock the pump for starters. I'd happily buy another Ping but unfortunately they are no longer.
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As a woman, pockets are never big enough so it was always a pest to extract my pump from a pump belt or hanging off my bra. Using an app on my phone is so much easier and discrete.
 
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