Geek zone

robinph

Coming from the diabetes collective myself and the tracking of numbers of blood glucose, insulin, carbohydrates, and anything else that takes your fancy being a requirement, I've found myself trying to make use of various gadgetry and software to log these things over the years. My logging still leave a lot to be desired though, but I find it does help somewhat to keep me motivated with the tracking by having something techy to do so with.

I'm sure that there are other conditions here that could use technology to log your lifestyle for then helping to deal with the medical professionals, so wondered if anyone else wanted to share anything that they make use of to help them out in anyway?

I've used a few things for logging numbers going back as far as some software I've now forgotten the name of on the PalmPilot, to more recently using Si Diary on a few variations of Nokia phones and it should work on a lot of others as well.

I've recently got myself an Android phone and just found another program called OnTrack which I've just started trying out to see what it can do. Best part is that it's free though.

Anyone found any other anythings that they use for helping them keep track of any condition you may have?

Griffin87

I got my htc desire at the weekend, The phone is brillant.

Ontrack is good, im loggin all my blood sugars and insulin dosage into the software.

im not sure how to count carbs just yet as (i havent done the dafne course. but i put myself on the waiting list and said i was open to cancelations so hopefully i can do it this summer) so i cant enter that into the software.

so far so good

CathyMoran

Not sure if you can still get it - the onetouch ultrasmart is great, I dont use all of the features but have found it great.

tbh

I've all the software, but just never test we need a constant glucose monitor, that'll change the game totally.

CathyMoran

tbh wrote: »

I've all the software, but just never test we need a constant glucose monitor, that'll change the game totally.

That is not good! I think that control is better when you test, for me at least stress makes my blood sugars bad, you cant pick that up otherwise, and be thankful that you are not a woman...for me pregnancy was the big thing that made me behave, watching my averages (my last one was 4.8 but post pregnancy will aim for 5.5), doing tests at night as well. At least the machines are a lot quicker and smaller now.

I loved the idea of that watch in that movie (I forget which one).

robinph

tbh wrote: »

I've all the software, but just never test we need a constant glucose monitor, that'll change the game totally.

A constant monitor that will just start beeping at me manically when needed would be ideal, but the remembering to test all the time is a pain. That's why I tend to find myself mildly better behaved when I find a new bit of software to track things on as I can make myself far more motivated to keep putting numbers into a bit of software on the PC or phone, so that I can then see what pretty graphs the software then comes up with, than I can to actually do the tests just for the sake of doing them for the good of my health.

Software and gadgetry just does it for me far more than anything any doctor or nurse might say to me.

tbh

just got diabetes pilot for the iphone - testing loads now!