Logging Pump and Meter Readings

Hi - i use an insulin pump and regularly send my pump and meter readings to my nurses. Does anyone know of a software program or something where i can download my meter readings (contour USB) easily into the same spreadsheet as i enter my pump readings (which has BG range higlighters, basal rates etc) Manually entering everything every few days is very time consuming!!

what information does your pump record?

It records BG and bolus given, time etc (and the usual bolus and basal settings) at the moment i have to manually enter the pump readings every few days (i like to eat and snack so i tend to use up it's memory space quickly!) My meter i can download into the Bayer website using their software but i would still have to manually enter it (or go through a process which takes twice as long to automate it) to the spreadsheet i use that is created by my hospital.

think you might struggle to find something that does what you want.........

what information do you use? I would assume your BG info is on top of the list, then your bolus doses..............these 2 would be needed to make accurate dose changes..........

what pump are you on, I know the accu check model has a meter with it, which might make the joining of BG readings [which can only come from a meter] and the rest of the information, that in your case is stored on the pump......

Can you export both the meter and pump into separate spreadsheets, if so, in theory, it could just be a case of copy and paste..........

Yeah I think i might too! Under each time on the spreadsheet i have 4 cells - BG, CHO, Bolus, Basal. I test about 10 times a day (i know - i'm a control freak ) My pump is a medtronic minimed paradigm and with the amount of doses i give myself it only saves about 3 or 4 days worth of readings. I could stop eating as much but at 7.5 stone i don't really want to or need to :-) I'll keep searching but in the mean time it will have to be manual entries.

Sorry - no i can't export pump readings (not that i know of) and the meter readings are exported to their own software which with a lot of playing i can eventually export to a .csv file but thats really more long-winded than manually entering it! It would be ok if i didn't need BG and doses in the same spreadsheet!

I dont pump, but I use the freestyle InsulinX which records all the information I need, however I still write it down on paper, this helps me spot patterns and allows me to quickly enter it in the online diary here at DAFNE Online...

So your pump cant export its information? If that is the case, extracting information will need to be done manually anyway, no?

Hi Jenny,

I recently started on a medtronic pump and I'm wondering if I have the same as you..it's a paradigm VEO minimed. I was also supplied with a medtronic/bayer contour link meter.

If that's what you have then you're sorted. Basically the meter and pump can be set up so that the meter sends the BG to the pump. Then you get your hands on a CareLink USB and log on here
https://carelink.minimed.com/patient/entry.jsp?bhcp=1
and upload your pump. If you do it once a week you have all your BG and bolus and basal rates for the week automatically uploaded and if you are using the pump wizard (personally I can't be doing with it!) then you will even have your carbs uploaded as well. I test as often as you do and I've found that even if the pump is not displaying them all they still show up on the carelink site....

alternatively, if you don't have the contour link meter then there is a capture event option on the pump (on the main menu) which allows you to enter a BG reading directly into the pump as you take one.

Hope that's of some help and all the best with the pump,

Jenny