User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Tips for Reading and Understanding this User Guide
- 2 Before you Begin Using Bigfoot Unity
- 3 Indications and Safety Information
- 4 Bigfoot Unity Welcome Kit
- 5 First Time Setup of Bigfoot Unity
- 6 Using Bigfoot Unity Caps
- 6.1 Pairing the Black and White Caps
- 6.2 Using the Black and White Caps
- Viewing Time Since Last Long-Acting Dose on the Black Cap
- Viewing Long-Acting Dose Amount on the Black Cap
- Viewing Time Since Last Rapid-Acting Dose on the White Cap
- Using your White Cap to View Current Glucose
- Viewing Correction Dose Amount on the White Cap
- Viewing Meal Dose Amounts on the White Cap
- Viewing Meal + Correction Dose Amounts on the White Cap
- 6.3 Using your Caps when Replacing Insulin Pens
- 6.4 Making Diabetes Treatment Decisions
- 6.5 Charging your Caps
- 7 Using the Sensor
- 8 Daily Use and Additional Features
- 9 Care, Maintenance and Disposal of Bigfoot Unity
- 10 Troubleshooting
- Appendix A: Receiving and Responding to Notifications/Alerts on your App/phone
- Appendix B: Settings for Bigfoot Unity App
- Appendix C: Technical Information
- C.1 Labeling Symbols
- C.2 Sensor Specifications
- C.3 Cap Specifications
- C.4 Communications Specifications
- C.5 Bigfoot Unity™ Diabetes Management System Specifications
- C.6 Kit Specifications
- C.7 Security Measures
- C.8 Quality of Service (QoS)
- C.9 Meter Specifications
- C.10 Performance Characteristics of the FreeStyle Libre 2 Flash Glucose Monitoring System*
- C.11 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
- C.12 Warranty
- Index
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Diabetes Management System User Guide | Chapter 6
Symptoms Don’t Match Readings
There may be times when your symptoms don’t match your Sensor
glucose readings. For example, you are feeling shaky, sweaty, and
dizzy – symptoms you generally get when you have low glucose, but
your glucose reading is within your target range. When symptoms don’t
match readings, do a blood glucose test and treat based on that result.
Don’t ignore symptoms that may be due to low or high blood glucose.
If you’re the caregiver, pay attention to times when the symptoms of
the one you’re caring for don’t match their Sensor glucose readings.
When symptoms don’t match readings, do a blood glucose test and
treat based on that result. A message/symbol will NOT display in these
situations.
When to Wait and Scan Again Later
Your health care provider can help you understand when waiting and
scanning again later is the right treatment decision. For example, if your
glucose is high and going up, your rst instinct may be to take more
insulin to lower your glucose, however depending on when you last
took insulin or your recent activity, the right treatment decision may be
to wait and scan again later.
IMPORTANT: If your last rapid-acting insulin dose logged using
the White Cap was taken within the past 3 hours, the Cap will
display “Active Insulin” and will not display a correction dose. This
is because the last dose may be still working to bring down your
glucose. Taking another insulin dose on top of the previous dose
that is still working may lead to hypoglycemia.
Considerations Before Injecting Rapid-Acting Insulin
Deciding how much rapid-acting insulin to take for different meals
and situations can be difcult. Work with your health care provider to
discuss different situations and what might work best for you. Here are
some questions to consider:
Meal dosing
• What do you do if your before meal glucose is high?
• What do you do if your before meal glucose is low?
• How much time do you wait to eat after taking your Mealtime
Insulin?