So far in this journey I use a meter. Count carbs. I see so many things in the now/ future concerning blood sugar monitoring. Insulin devices. Do you use a CGM.? Or other devices? I tried doing an AP for recording food and hated it. I do better with a note book. How do you manage your routine.? Nancy
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Apps change all the time and are replaced by new ones that (a) have to be learned all over again, (b) aren’t compatible with what went before, and © have privacy issues I’m not willing to contend with. I’ll keep my hard copy log. It’s always here, I control it, its battery never runs down, it has yet to experience a single software bug, it never needs upgrading, and it contains the data I need to manage my sub-5 A1c… Anyone is welcome to call me a luddite if it makes them feel good; I couldn’t care less.
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I’m not T2 and use a lot of technology. I have however, recently used multiple daily injections (basal and bolus) and a meter to guide my insulin treatment. (I used a CGM, too.) One thing I would find enticing is equipment that can automatically record and remember at least the last dose taken from a pen. If my memory is a blank and I don’t have any record then I’m faced with missing a dose altogether or double dosing, a problem either way.
David’s solution for a hand-written log has a lot to recommend it. Where I get into trouble with that system is the occasional interruption, whether it be a phone call or knock at the door, that blows up the best of intentions. With a pen recorder, if the insulin is delivered then the record is made, too. I do best with technology that automatically makes a record and doesn’t require me to take a moment and separately make a record.
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I use a pump now, but for four months last year, I experimented with Tresiba with an MDI break. I went back to my pump when I started using an experimental artificial pancreas system.
The newer NovoPens do this (NovoPen Echo and NovoPen 5). Humalog used to have a pen that had a memory function (HumaPen Memoir), but I think it’s been discontinued.
I like my technology (I have Type 1 and use a pump, CGM, iPhone, Fitbit, and scale on a daily basis to manage my diabetes), but if I was confident that I could achieve a sub-6.5 A1c and not be at risk of severe highs or lows on a daily basis (which I can only do because of using these tools), I’d probably drop the technology without much argument. Technology (and diet and exercise and a lot of diligence) allows me keep good diabetes control, but the technology can also be extremely annoying and frustrating at times (not to mention expensive).
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I take MDI and use the smartphone app called mySugr, it does everything I need and I can log into their website and print out all my data to take to my endo. I also use pen caps that have timers on them, helps a lot if I forget(and didn’t enter it in app) when I took a dose of insulin.
Thanks everyone. I don’t have a smart phone. My endo downloads my meter every time I come. So for almost 24 years,still figuring out what best to do. Nancy
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I’m very low tech also. My cell phone lives in a drawer unless I am travelling. I love my meter–it’s still the first one I got back in 2007…
That being said, I really appreciate how much many of my friends are helped by advancing technologies…
I am a believer in technology for T2, I like my electronic D gadget. While I was still on MDI I religiously kept all my logs on a smart phone. I have since moved from MDI to a pump which now keeps my logs for me.
I believe that D technology should be available for T2s if he or she wishes for it. Of course if a T2 doesn’t want it then that’s OK too.
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I am not the least opposed to technology. F’chrissake, I’ve spent my entire working life with computers. I simply maintain that like food, or wine, or hobbies, or any other aspect of human activity you care to name, different things suit different people. One size fits all makes no sense in medicine, in cars, in shoes . . . or in method, technique, and technology.
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