Understanding and Adjusting Basal Rates
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In addition to normal daily changes, insulin needs can vary with
different routines or days of the week. For example, regular
school or workday routines may differ from weekend routines,
and insulin needs may differ, too. With your healthcare provider,
you will decide on the basal rates that best match your lifestyle
and insulin needs. You will enter at least one basal program (your
Basal 1 program) into your PDM during the setup process (see
Chapter 2, Getting Started). You can add other programs later as
you fine-tune your System settings or when your needs change.
You can also create temporary basal presets to use on occasions
when you need to adjust your basal rate for a short period of
time. See “Temporary Basal Rates and Presets” later in this
chapter.
Create a basal program
The Personal Diabetes Manager can store up to 7 different basal
programs. Each program can contain 24 rates, programmed in
half-hour increments. Once you enter a basal program into the
PDM, you only need to press a few buttons to pick the program
you want. The Pod continues to deliver insulin at those rates until
you change that program or switch to another one.
1. On the
Home
screen, use the
Up/Down Controller
buttons
to choose
Settings
; then press
Select
.
2. Choose
Basal programs
(Figure 3-1), then press
Select
.
3. Choose
[add new]
(Figure 3-2), then press
New
.
4. To use the default naming system, simply press
Next
. The
default naming system automatically assigns program
names in numerical order, such as basal 1, basal 2, basal 3.
If you want to give a different name to the program:
a. Press the
Up/Down Controller
buttons to scroll through
the list of characters. An up-and-down-arrow symbol on
the screen indicates the character you are changing.
Check with your healthcare provider before adjusting
these settings.
Figure 3-1
Figure 3-2
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