How your glucose is used

If you connect a monitor, Bolus shows your glucose back to you as something to reflect on. This article is clear about what it does and does not do with it, because that boundary matters.

What you see

On Today, the day’s trace and how much of the day so far sat in the normal range. On Insights:

• Your trace across the week, with your average over the window.
• Time in range, day by day, over the last 7, 14, 30 or 90 days.
• Your day, where your meals are marked along the trace.
• With Bolus Premium, meal glucose response: how each dish has landed on you across the times you ate it.

This is there to help you notice patterns in your own time, in the same way you might look back over your monitor’s own app. Bolus uses one vocabulary throughout: 4 to 10 mmol/L is normal, above 10 is high, below 4 is a hypo.

The line Bolus does not cross

Bolus is not a medical device. The glucose information in Bolus is there as retrospective reflection for you. It is not medical advice, it is not dosing guidance, and Bolus does not tell you to change what you eat because of a reading.

You keep making your own decisions about insulin, medication, and treatment with your care team, exactly as you do now. Bolus helps with the food side: planning and shopping.

If something looks off

The glucose timeline reflects the readings your monitor shares. If it looks wrong or out of date, it is usually a sync issue rather than anything Bolus has changed. See fix a CGM that needs reconnecting.