Just got off the phone with Animas. They verified that I cannot retrieve carb and blood sugar information from the pump itself, but that it is downloadable with Ezmanager.
No release date.
I do have an email out to ezmanager support, so we’ll see what they say.
The last two weekends were about increasing my aerobic ability and dropping my TDD. This weekend, because I wasn’t sleeping well last week, has been about catching up on sleep. I’m also focusing on getting my house back together.
I only got 2 20 minute sessions done on the treadmill, yesterday, but my TDD was still around 40 units.
I also have good news. I saw a new low weight yesterday for a weight loss of 7 pounds! I didn’t see it again today, but that’s normal for me. I’ll see a 2-3 pound fluxation from day to day. Some of that is due to water retention.
All in all, I’m still very very happy with fitness for diabetics and even planning to sign up for another intensive 4 month session.
The new screen is nice.
The new way of doing carb ratios and insulin sensitivity is nice.
But here’s why I am disappointed — while the ad says that the pump stores the blood sugar and carb information on the pump, I have no way of retrieving that information right now! And that’s why I wanted the upgrade.
Hopefully they will have it fixed soon — I know the FDA approval went through a few weeks ago.
It definately stops during basal download — the bolus’s show up on the pump but my TDD isn’t showing up. Guess I’m just going to have to be patient.
A commenter asked about EzManager, and I’m sure I have posted about it in the past. Check the software category.
I first started using EzManager BEFORE I got a pump. In fact, EzManager may be one of the reasons I got my first Animas pump.
The current version of EzManager works very well with either a Palm device or with an UltraSmart meter. I will have to review the new version of EzManager when it comes.
My medical team finds the daily graph a bit confusing and they prefer to get the log output. I do better with the daily graph.
EzManger will track whatever you put in it, and you can either enter food data and exercise data through the Palm or Ultra Smart, or through EzManager itself.
The biggest problem I have had with EzManager, is with the food database. You can not edit food database entries, and you can only delete entries by using a Palm device.
Everything else works well.
As you can tell from the entry time, I’m not sleeping right now. I haven’t been sleeping well all week again.
What woke me up?
A bit of gastric reflux, dogs and the lights from our local police car at a traffic stop in front of the house. And maybe my pump alarm.
I WAS sleeping pretty good. Until last Friday night when the A/C went out and I had to deal with it, and the finances surrounding acquiring A/C. Friday night I couldn’t sleep because I was too hot and for worrying about money and getting it all done.
Slept all night on Saturday but couldn’t sleep at all Sunday night. So every night, I don’t sleep my pain gets a little worse. I wake up more easily etc. The only way to fix it is to sleep it out.
That means when I finish this post, I go back to bed, and sleep as late as I can. And if I wake up before 9:00 am, I mess around again like I am doing now, and then go back to bed again. It also means maybe taking a nap or two, but making sure I get enough sleep so I can sleep all night on Sunday.
It might even mean taking some Sonata. Which I probably should have days again, but I don’t like the way I feel if I don’t get enough sleep when I take it.
UPS had tried to deliver while I was at school, so I made arrangements to pick it up from the local UPS center, about 5 miles from the house.
They have an interesting system, they have everyone who is picking up packages come in the building and they start calling names — mine was the second name called that had a person, and about the 10th name called.
The first thing I did was to pop a battery in the pump. Man, the screen is extremely bright, but then again, I have it set on constrast 7 (I just thought of that), and it is much easier to read.
The first disappointment came when I tried to upload my pump settings. My current version of EzManager doesn’t work with the new pump for setup — though that makes sense because the set up screens are different. Of course that just occured to me.
I do wish I had a way to program the pump remotely — it took a good 20 minutes to program mys settings.
I’m not sure if I can download anything until the new software comes — I tried, but it seemed to stop at 40%. Anyone know when they are shipping?
The package they sent is the standard, new pump package, with a sample of the comfort and inset infusion sets, IV prep and IV Barrier tape. Also shipped with a cartridge. extra battery cap, leather case, and a new Animas medallion.
I really like the new programming options — you can now program your own times (with 30 minute increments) for ISF and for Corrections. I’m trying something different — the time frames I usually eat, I’m using my Symlin settings so I don’t have to do as much math. Right now, I eat lunch after 12:30 so from 12:30 to 1:00 I have it programmed to do a 20 ISF instead of a 10. I’m also trying to find a way to enter the carbs without putting in a ISF for my evening timeframe, since I don’t need bolus insulin them.
I’m still trying to figure out if entering Carbs in the evening but no insulin will let me log though carbs, and I might not know what until the new version of EzManager comes.
Yesterday I finished my 5th week of working out with Fitness4Diabetics.
Things are going well. My TDD has gone from 80 units a day to just about 45 units a day. I have increased my walking from 10 minutes straight to 20 minutes. I think I’ve lost about 5 pounds.
My average blood sugar accoding to my meter went from 171 to 148.
All in all not bad.
And I really didn’t expect to lose any weight.
My new Animas pump should be arriving tomorrow. It’s the 2020. It will be interesting — I hear that the EzManager software is behind the pump when it comes to current release. It will be interesting to see what that means.
Had an excellent day (my Fitness 4 Diabetes coach even says so….
I got up, ran Marcie up to the vet for phenobarbal levels which are good.
Then when over to school, sat down and made sub notes, and made sure I had everything for field testing on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Picked up Diet Gourmet food and ran by Office Depot because I was out of ink and paper and it’s 10% off teacher appreciate week.
Dropped that stuff off, went over to City Hall and voted in early voting.
Got back to meet A/C people at 11:00. They sent out a guy to start tearing stuff out at 11:00 and the actual unit came at 1:00 pm just as they said they would on Saturday.
They were wonderful — though next time, I’ll go get the dog when the vet calls at 3:15. They said we’d have cold air in an hour and figured that meant they would be done then.
They got done at 5:15. Just enough time to get Marcie at the vets and get to agility class 45 minutes early, even though we stopped and hung out at Petsmart for a few minutes — FYI if you have to get your dog pills they make a dog food flavored thing you can hide the pills in. It’s the one thing I’ve found that the beagles won’t eat while spitting out the pills.
Even hit the hot tub.
Man, it’s nice to sleep in a cool, dry (it’s been humid) house.
Interesting story line on NCIS last week — blind photographer follows “fruity smell” taking photographs and discovered a dead guy.
At the end of the show, the photographer smells it again — on Ducky’s assistant’s breath. The killer was diabetic and was exhibiting the same fruity smell.
Interestingly insulin, they had a Byetta pen, I believe instead of insulin.