Great piece of software Xdrip had it for 2 months and works out lot cheaper than a Dexcom, Message for Scott and Damon how do you get on your History graph your Bolus Units and Carbs eaten?
Many thanks.
Hi, RDD, when you're on the home page showing the live graph, there's a grey pencil icon top rightish, sort of just below the trend arrow.
Click that icon, it'll bring up a screen to input carbs/bolus (the other two buttons on that screen are for bg tests not used for calibrating, and entering the carb/bolus treatment time if you're not doing it "live" and want to enter one you did earlier but forgot to enter).
Once you type in the entry, a green tick mark appears on the input screen. Click that and it then gives the option of confirming or cancelling the entry.
Click confirm and the entry will then show on the live graph and should show up in the history screens too.
When you make an entry, another couple of icons will show up beneath the pencil icon to let you "undo" and "redo" for about 15 mins - done that plenty of times when I've realised I've entered 65u instead of 65 carbs!
If you've not been entering carbs/bolus, you've maybe not been using the predictive simulations?
In Settings/xdrip+ Predictive Simulations Settings, you'll get a screen like the two below where you can set various parameters based on your own personal biology (It comes with presets - I'm still figuring out how to set mine - don't even know what some of them mean, let alone how to calculate them!).
Once simulations are set to on, then each time you enter carbs and/or bolus, additional lines will appear on the graph which extend from the last blue dot and basically makes a rough estimate of how things will pan out in the next few hours based on the parameters set earlier.
The prediction can take a while to settle down and often changes as time goes by and gets more actual sensor readings, but I've found it quite useful to get a very rough, broad indication of where things might go based on a particular bolus/carb entry, and then just undo the entry and try another one if I don't like the look of it.
It's kind of like a visual bolus calculator actually seeing how a bolus/carb combo might pan out.
Once I've committed to the shot, the predictions frequently turn out to be surprisingly accurate, as long as one remains aware that they can change rapidly as additional actual sensor data is fed in to the algo.
Here's the set up screens: