Anyone else manage mostly by gut feeling?
I use an insulin pen and dose per meal - making my own call each time. I was never really into carb counting. Too much work, not that accurate anyway - and there are so many other things that play in. Exercise. Stress. Sick days. What you eat alongside the carbs. I just started trusting my experience instead, and taking more or less the same doses. Sometimes that was fine. Sometimes it wasn't.
I tried keeping notes on paper for a while. Never really stuck - and even when it did, finding a similar day later was too much work.
Then smartphones came along. I started keeping a log on my phone, and eventually built a simple little app just for my own use. Nothing fancy. It worked surprisingly well - better than counting carbs, and much faster. I have been using it for years. Last week we had homemade lasagne. I can tell you exactly how I dosed each of the last ten times we had it, and what my glucose did in the hours after. Same with different kinds of exercise. That is what years of logging actually gives you - not charts for your doctor, but your own experience, right there when you need it.
I have searched the App Store plenty of times over the years. Never found anything I liked better than my own thing. Most apps are either built around carb counting, or they produce nice statistics for your doctor. Nothing built for the person who just wants to manage their own day - fast, and without the math.
So I finally took the time to rebuild it properly as an app I can share. It is not on the App Store yet - but I could really use help from people like me who manage by feel and want to try this approach.
If you are T1D, use an insulin pen, and make your own dosing decisions per meal - I could really use your help. iPhone only for now. Comment below and I will send you the details.