An insulin and medicine tracking chart

Doses tied to meals

Most rapid-acting regimens are dosed before meals with a longer-acting dose at night. Set the chart hours to your actual meal times rather than round numbers, and put the units in the dose field — 8 units — so the number prints inside every box rather than living only in your head.

Insulin alongside everything else

Diabetes rarely comes alone. Blood pressure tablets, statins, metformin and thyroid medicine often share the same hours, each with its own food rule. All of them appear on the same chart at the hours they are due, with the food instruction printed in the box.

Keeping a reading log

Print the tick sheet and write the reading beside each tick. A week of readings next to the doses that produced them is far more useful at a review than either list on its own, and it takes seconds a day to keep.

A word of caution

This chart records the regimen your clinician set. It does not calculate insulin doses and must never be used to work out a dose yourself — sliding scales and correction factors are individual and belong with your diabetes team.

How to make one

1. Choose Injection and enter the units
2. Set the hours around your meals
3. Print the tick sheet and log readings beside each dose

Questions

A note on safety. PillsChart reproduces the schedule you type. It does not check doses or interactions. Always follow the instructions from your doctor or pharmacist, and check the printed chart against the prescription before anyone relies on it.

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