Type 1 Carb apps

[Vicky19]

Hi I was wondering what apps do people use to calculate there insulin intake.

Currently using Diabetes:M but wanted to see if there any other apps out there, that you input your glucose and carbs and tells you how to inject.

 

[Deleted member 527103]

I use the app for my pump and CGM - I tell it how many carbs I am eating. Based on my BG from the CGM, my correction and insulin to carb ratio, the app works out how much insulin, tells my pump and it is delivered.

Before I had a pump, I used the old fashioned system - mental arithmetic with no apps.
To be honest, I made less mistakes that way because I had less unchecked "finger trouble" with the data input.

 

[becca59]

I don’t use one. I know most of the carb content of what I eat and jot it on a bit of paper and do a quick calculation myself.

 

[Rokaab]

I don’t use one. I know most of the carb content of what I eat and jot it on a bit of paper and do a quick calculation myself.

Same here - my pump automatically works it out now, but before I got it I just used to do it in my head - well lets face it for a hefty amount of the time I've had diabetes there were no apps, heck there were no mobile phones for the first 20 odd years

 

[ElenaP]

I do not use an App. When you have different carb/insulin ratios for different times of day, I would not trust an app. Although currently I have the ratios programmed into the pump, I still keep in mind that breakfast ratio is such and such, and lunch and dinner ratios different again. I think that it is important to calculate manually from time to time in case the technology of the pump fails.

 

[Belzedar]

Hi I was wondering what apps do people use to calculate there insulin intake.

Currently using Diabetes:M but wanted to see if there any other apps out there, that you input your glucose and carbs and tells you how to inject.

Google Sheets. Once I figured out my ISF and CIR (that's the Insulin Sensitivity Factor to figure out how much 1 unit of insulin would reduce my glucose levels by and the Carb Insulin Ratio to figure out how much insulin I need to cover the carbs in what I'd eaten), I just had to plug the numbers in. There's an increase of 20% in insulin requirements if there's a lot of protein and/or a lot of fat in the meal.