Can you calcuate bolus peaks on an insulin pump?
Yes – but your pump should do it for you. I use a medtronic pump and it calculates ‘active insulin’ which is the same kind of idea – it’s useful to know how much you still have working in your blood. Your pump should be using this to calculate correction boluses so that you don’t give yourself too much insulin. In response to Bux – pumps work totally differently to injections – if you take insulin through a pump and wait before eating then you’ll have a hypo – the absorbtion rate is less and slower with an injection because you’ve just inserted a needle when the insulin is being absorbed, you don’t have this problem with a pump.
