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
Considerations if You Record a Dose You Did Not Take
Bigfoot Unity records that you took a dose of insulin every time the Cap
is replaced after being removed for more than 4 seconds. This re-sets
the dose timer and displays the “time since last dose” as 0 min 0 sec.
There are times that you may re-set the dose timer accidentally when
you did not actually take a dose. Some examples of this might be:
• Removing your Cap to check the insulin in your insulin pen takes
longer than 4 seconds.
• The Cap falls off the insulin pen in your backpack or pocketbook.
• You do not snap the Cap into place after you take a dose.
For any of these, or other reasons, Bigfoot Unity will record a dose at
the time the Cap is placed back on the insulin pen.
If the dose is recorded at the wrong time, you will need to take extra
precautions for a period of time.
• The White Cap will re-set the “time since last dose” after it records a
dose (even if you didn’t actually take the dose). For the next 3 hours,
the Cap screen will display “Active Insulin” instead of giving you a
suggested correction dose. If your glucose is high, you will need to
use a backup method to determine if a correction dose is needed.
Three hours after your White Cap has been placed back on the pen,
it will go back to showing correction doses for high glucose.
• The Black Cap will re-set the “time since last dose” after it records
a dose (even if you didn’t actually take the dose). If you have set the
Long-Acting Dose Alert to remind you to check that you took your
long-acting insulin dose after a certain period of time, it may not alert
you at the time you are expecting. This means that you may need
to remember when to take your next dose of long-acting insulin
and not rely on Bigfoot Unity to remind you. Follow your health care
provider’s instructions if you do not know whether or not you took a
long-acting dose of insulin.
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.