How to choose the right insulin pump to fit your needs.
What's involved in pump therapy?
Training with the use of your insulin pump.
Setting up your new insulin pump.
How to prepare your pump for use.
Properly preparing the infusion set for use with your insulin pump.
Now your pumping! So now what?  Where do I go from here?
Testing your blood sugars.
Seting your personal Basal Rates and updating them when the time comes.
Bolusing - Correction bolus and meal bolus
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BolusCalc is a creation I came up with just after I started pumping insulin.  What it will do is help you calculate your correction and meal boluses.

Just enter your current blood sugar reading and the carbs you plan to eat and BolusCalc will do the rest.  It even records you last 15 results which you can display on demand.

Installation is easy.  Just download the single file from here and save it in a folder on your computer.  IE: c:\downloads.  After the download is complete, just go to that folder, double click on on the file you downloaded and unzip it to a temp folder.  Run Setup.exe and follow the simple instructions.  The installation will create a new folder on your hard drive and place a shortcut in your start menu.

When you run the program for the first time, please be sure to run the setup utility first before figuring your bolus.  Setup needs to know the following:

Target Blood Sugar
Correction Bolus factor
Meal Bolus factor

Check out BolusCalc today.

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BolusCalc is a free program, I do not require payment for the use, but if you'd like to make a donation to help with the high costs of operating my two diabetes website, please run the BolusCalc program, click on About then click Donate and make a donation using a credit card.

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