Hi all, some advice please. I was wondering if there's a good source of information with the reasons for going on a pump?
My consultant has suggested I may need one to improve control, because I have some areas of lipohypertrophy and basically it's becoming difficult to find a site to inject on that isn't actually affected by this after 20+ years on MDI. Having never been on a pump before, and without much information on this subject, I'm not sure I fully appreciate the benefits and why it would be used.
I am currently injecting in a harder to reach area (the reason I haven't used the site often) and am now seeing significant improvements in how quickly the quick acting insulin is working. It's now taking 1 hour for BG to come down to a reasonable level whereas before it was taking 3 hours. Note that I'm not talking about it being say 8.5 a few hours after injecting it's more like 15, then 5 hours after injecting it will have dropped to for example 4.5, so I do think lipohypertrophy has been causing problems as the outcome of the QA injection often hasn't happened by the next meal time.
My consultant has suggested I may need one to improve control, because I have some areas of lipohypertrophy and basically it's becoming difficult to find a site to inject on that isn't actually affected by this after 20+ years on MDI. Having never been on a pump before, and without much information on this subject, I'm not sure I fully appreciate the benefits and why it would be used.
I am currently injecting in a harder to reach area (the reason I haven't used the site often) and am now seeing significant improvements in how quickly the quick acting insulin is working. It's now taking 1 hour for BG to come down to a reasonable level whereas before it was taking 3 hours. Note that I'm not talking about it being say 8.5 a few hours after injecting it's more like 15, then 5 hours after injecting it will have dropped to for example 4.5, so I do think lipohypertrophy has been causing problems as the outcome of the QA injection often hasn't happened by the next meal time.