It gives the alert for 'Low reservoir--20 units remaining', then again at 10 units...
WHY OH WHY DOES IT NOT ALERT WHEN IT RUNS OUT?!!
This is possibly the most retarded lack of feature I have ever found in my pump. I have other complaints but do not consider them rant worthy...but this...I have a lot of other things on my mind right now, and would *really* appreciate the pump telling me it's run dry mid-bolus. I don't refill at 10 units because I am trying to conserve insulin.
ARRRGH!! Okay done...now for the several-hour process of slowly catching up in small boluses, since I don't know exactly when it ran out... -,-
And how I to know when it hits 5 units? This is the source of my rant. It's constantly pumping insulin, hence the term 'insulin pump'. Not having a 0.0 alert is mind boggling.
Absolutely nothing! No alert! Just lets me believe I'm receiving insulin....leaves me to try and figure out when it hit 0.0.... >,> ahhhhck I take it this is a flaw....not what I need right now. Cripes, lol...
Mine will register at 0 for a time but have as much as another 10 units left before it actually completely empties and feels resistance - And then sounds the alarm.
It IS odd, because this amount past zero really does vary every time and it does make me wonder about the accuracy of deliveries sometimes. We all just presume they're spot on to the tenth of a unit. I believe even less in the revel?
I switched the settings on mine to ***ALERT*** me at 5U instead of 20. 20 is like 12 hours most of the time and I agree that it was sort of useless. I don't think they quite run out at 0 either. I've run mine down and there's still a little bit left. My BG tends to start running up from the bubbles or whatever around 5U too so that works in more than one way.
Another point is the pump calculates insulin remaining (and IOB) not by how much insulin was delivered out of the cartridge but indirectly by measuring how far the cartridge has moved. This could explain how it can say zero insulin and yet the cartridge still has some in it.
Go to Utilities-->alarm-->low reserv warning--> then choose either insulin units or time. I have mine set at 5 units but it still alarms at 10 or 20, I don't look to see which. Most of the time I let mine run out, though I am expecting it and ready with change supplies. When it is empty, not on zero, it will give the 'no delivery' warning. After the reservoir black mark gets to zero, it still has at least 10 more units and some say up to 20 units. I do not know if other pumps are like this or not. It is aggravating when it runs out mid-bolus, which happens too often for me. Then you have to look at how much has gone in before removing the reservoir and rewinding!!
I never let my pump run out mid-bolus, because I have my low reservoir alarm set at 10 units, and I never take a bolus that big. I'd just as soon waste 10 frickin' units of insulin than actually run out when when I need it. (I did that once driving home to Reno from Sacramento -- emergency plan, inject air into reservoir and let the air push the remaining insulin in the tube into you).
I am with Natalie and her comment about wasting insulin ...consequently I cannot identify running out ..( .a MM pumper since 2001 ) ..PS .I do have a great Extended Health plan etc. etc. here in Canada
