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Also another thing was that during PT at school we felt that the Omnipod would be knocked off - with a separate pump she can disconnect leaving only the cannula which can be covered with a plaster if needed which seems to take being bashed about well.

We looked at the Omnipod and I agree ite very very good but the only thing that put us off was that you cannot deliver a bolus without the handset so our 9 year old would have to take the remote to school and we have heard numerous stories of kids loosing the remote for pumps and obviously that...

The Accucheck Combo is waterproof to 2meters for an hour - my daughter goes in the bath and swims with it no problem.

I would not get too excited about the Medtronic CGM which works with the Veo pump. Its a different beast to the one you wear for several days. The one that connects to the pump needs changing every 3 days as the reagent it uses becomes causes inaccuracies after that time. Even when new it needs...

We started on the Medtronic Veo with CGM and initially thought it very good but it soon turned into a nightmare for lots and lots of reasons but the main one was that the controls are all on the pump which is attached to your child - anyone with a child knows whats going to happen. You are...

My daughter has been on a pump for almost a year now and it is as you say just like starting from scratch again but it does get better. The best part of it is that she can eat as much as she wants and whatever she wants whenever she wants - some of her best days are when she eats loads of sweets...

Yes you can - my daughter uses them

We started out with a medtronic veo with CGM which gave us BG readings every 5 min. For about three months I slept by my daughters side watching what was happening at night and found it very usefull - however it totally shattered me! We gave up on CGM after that because it was too unreliable...

TBH we try and avoid this and work with the pump. The reason is that unless you know 100% that the cannula is blocked ie the pump is alarming to tell you its blocked then you can very easily give an overdose of insulin as the pump may have been delivering ok and its just the fact that the...

Our daughter can show the same ie really high readings for no apparent reason. We have tracked some of them down to her teeth coming through which seem to act like a switch that sends her into the 20s. We usually put on a 200% temp basal on her pump and give her a large correction - she can need...

LADAR - Laser chemical detection systems have been available for many years now so this may not be so far fetched as it may seem. The problem will be size but as most will know there are already oxygen monitoring systems for hospitals that fit on a patients finger

my daughter has a Lenny Lion pump case and she loves it. We actually use it to keep her BG meter etc in rather than the pump at night. We were given it by the Medtronic nurse when she did pump training with it so I would contact Medtronic and ask for one.

Our daughter is T1 and was put on the medtronic pump in Jan this year. We had the same problems as you and I ended up staying awake every night for 3 months trying to get her levels stable but I failed and we asked to go back onto injections as we understood them better. After a few weeks we...

If you have the Bauer meter with the pump then you can set it up to transmit the bg level to the pump as soon as it's done and so help avoid the incorrect reading being used.

My daughter also uses the combo after switching from the medtronic cgm veo and I have to say that the combo remote is actually smaller than the by meter supplied with the very latest medtonic system so the comparison to a house brick is way out IMO. The pump is fully functional without the...

Ive used the medtronic with CGM and TBH it was a complete nightmare - constant calibrations, inaccurate BG readings, blockages, very poor support, more hypos than ever and the constant need to dig the pump out from clothing or find it in bed to give a bolus or do a calculation. I used it for 3...

Its designed to go round your neck - just slide your pump in

We have recently changed to the Accu-check Combo pump and I must say that its much much better than the Medtronic pump we had before even though it does not have CGM (its coming soon Im told)the control we get is far better due I think to the different way it calculates and delivers the insulin...

The device you are looking for is called the Guardian which works with the sensor to give a BG readout. We had exactly the same idea as you but it does not work because the sensor/Gardian has a very short range ie about 4 ft so its useless realy for monitoring a child in another room. The best...

My daughter has been using the CGM sensors daily for the last three months and they have been a complete nightmare - so much we have given the pump back and are getting a different version next week. We found the sensors last a max of 4 days after that they became very inaccurate, even after a...