hi I'm Christel from Diabetes Strong in this video
I’ll show you how to get started with the InPen
so I’ll be covering everything from the time that you take the pen out of the box
to do your first injection
so if this is your first InPen and it's a little overwhelming,
or you just don't quite remember how you did it the first time around
don't worry I got you for those who don't know what an InPen is,
it's a smart durable insulin pen and it works with Humalog, Novolog, or Fiasp
so what really makes this system smart is the pen app combination
so the InPen app can help you calculate your insulin doses
for meals or corrections, it can send you dosing reminders
and it also has pretty brilliant reporting
whereas the InPen itself the pen will automatically by Bluetooth
send any doses that you take to the app
thereby keeping track on your insulin on board
if you want more details on the InPen check out my full review of the InPen
you find the link up here
and this is what the video looks like
finally, before we dive in
you can use the time codes down below in the video description
if you're only interested in parts of the video
so for example if you only want to know how to connect the pen to the app
go down click on that time code or if you for example just want to know
how to load your insulin pen with a new insulin cartridge
click the code for that you'll be taken directly to it, let's dive in
let's get my new InPen out of the box and set it up, the InPen has a battery warranty
of one gear so you do need a new InPen every year
but don't worry if the battery runs out
you can still use the insulin pen as just a regular durable insulin pen it just it will
no longer be a smart pen
so let's check her out it's a little tight I got a blue one this time
so it's a little hard to get out of the box here we go this is my new insulin pen
set her up
download the in pen app and click on it
as you can see here I already have a pen going I've been using this for a while
so I'm already logged in, if this is the first time ever that you're using the InPen app
you have to log in with your credentials but once you're in
you want to click down in the right-hand corner
it says settings
click on that and then the second row it says pair new InPen
that's what we're going to do, so click on that
and here you can see it comes up and it says dial and dispense,
for me, a 24.5 unit pairing dose
remember the dose that the pen the app is going to tell you
is most likely different so go by whatever
little video on your app is telling you
basically, this video is going to take us through how to pair the pen
so let's just follow along but 24.5 so take my pen
and then you just dial it up and just keep going and
don't worry about there's no insulin in it right so it's not like we're wasting insulin
so that's 24.5 see that, a little closer, and you simply just push the plunger
there you go put that away again
and then in the app you click the orange bar here it says
“I dispensed the pairing dose” and now it's going to go look for the InPen
so, see that was fast, it says do you want to pair so you just click “pair”
and now you can give it a name I like to custom it
click on that, and then I usually just give it, you know, the month that I activated
it remember they only last a year so this one is going to be called January
say, okay, now it's called January, then you go down the bottom click next
and here is then all your settings
so you need to enter your carb ratios, your correction factors, and your blood sugar
targets, everything here in the therapy settings
if you do not know your settings you have to get them from your doctor
but basically, if you don't have them from your doctor yet just click next
and you can always change this later, so let's click next,
and then it just comes up and say hey you know there might be issues
don't worry about it click next
this is how you put in an insulin cartridge we're going to go over that as well click
next or you can well you have to click watch the video tutorial
and it's basically showing you how to do that
I also have a video coming up on that so you might want to watch that instead
click next, so again as I said it's just taking you through how to do everything
how you take an insulin dose, I’m just gonna click next through all of them
because we know all this stuff alrighty and how you can get a hold of them, alright,
now we have paired the insulin pen
with the app and we're ready to use it
so you can see my pens, click that you see I have one from July 2021 and now I have
one from January, so I have two pens going and you can do that
but let's just pretend that this one was loaded with insulin and I needed to take
a dose one unit so I’d do my one unit
I don't need to take the cap off, I’d do a one unit prime
and then I would do, see it just showed up here in the app, but that was a prime
so I’m gonna do a two unit, a two and a half unit, actual insulin dose
see
and there you go it just showed up in the app
so let's, we, you and I, because you just saw,
both know that these are actually air shots they weren't real doses
so you just click on logbook
and then you can see the prime and you see the rapid-acting dose
okay, click on rapid-acting because you and I know that that was actually a prime
it wasn't a dose, so just do that, so I just clicked on the line
and then I clicked prime
boop , and it's gone, it's set as prime click home again
now that the end pen is all set up in the app it's time to load it with insulin
just remember that your InPen is only made for one type of insulin
so Fiasp, Humalog or Novolog and you can see that here
so this pen is for Humalog, so that's what I use
let's just load that so you take out your pen
and you pull off the cap
and first thing you want to do is you want to hold on to the pen with both hands
so I’m holding the clear plastic part with my right hand, okay
so I’m going to hold that and I’m going to twist it towards myself
so that is counterclockwise and I’m holding with my right hand
so I’m twisting it towards myself, you need to use a little bit of force there you go
there's a little bit of click, let's do it again
there you go and then you just pull the two pieces apart
so put that clear plastic part aside from now
so this is the screw that, no, the plunger is attached to that
that's what's pushing out the insulin so the first thing you need to do is you need to
dial it back, oops, and I just did it the wrong way
here you go so again everything when you take it apart
is counter, so now you don't want to push the plunger if you do that the screw is
just going to move out okay so you want to do it like this a little trick there okay
and now we're ready to fill it with insulin so you get out your cartridge
again, I'm using Humalog, you want to put that into the clear plastic part
so it goes in with the red end first you see they kind of look the same
so here we go and now again you want to hold on
I’m holding it with my right hand
and I’m holding the colored part with my left hand and just first
need to find the piece that there's kind of like a little plastic part here
and that fits into
so if it's not, if it's just spinning,
just spin it until you find, there we go, right now you see it's not stuck
so what you want to do is again hold it and then you want to twist it
but now you want to twist it away from yourself so clockwise
if you're holding it the clear plastic with your right hand
hear that that was a snap let's just do that again so I simply hold it in
there we go if I just then it'll fall out hold on to it and snap it into place
there we go and now we have loaded our InPen with insulin we're ready to use it
next thing of course you want to put a needle on and do a few air shots
air shots is simply where we dial it up flick a few times
and we want to push the plunger all the way down and make sure
that insulin is actually flowing
you might have to do a few air shots
depending on how far down you twisted the plunger don't worry about
it's just air,
you do want to make sure though that the InPen does not register it as a dose
so let me just show you how you fix that
open up your InPen app
and then simply click on logbook and then you click on the latest entry
so you see 3 units rapid-acting you click prime,
because it was a prime it wasn't a dose
and then it switches from being blue and saying “rapid”
to being gray and saying “prime” and that's how you change it from a dose to a prime
and that is how you set up your new InPen so I know there's quite a few steps to do
this but I do hope that this video helped simplify just a little bit
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