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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
What it says on the tin really. I would love a pump, but my DSN is dead set against it, but won't really give me any solid reason, apart from the fact that 'my mental health is a bit suspect'. I could point out that the diabetes contributes to that...
A bit of background. Have been T1 for 5 years, and I am not the most insulin sensitive person on the planet at the best of times, although I am extremely sensitive to stress, temperature, and some of my other medications. No Dawn Phenomenon, thankfully, but I do get a very aggressive feet to the floor rise - up to 5 or 6 mmol/L sometimes, and I also have very, very bad hypo rebound - this afternoon I went down to 2.2, for no good reason I might add, and two hours later it was 20.3. The hypo was treated with five jelly babies, which long experimenting has shown to be the right amount - four doesn't bring me up enough. Sometimes I end up having 7 or 8 injections a day with all the corrections, and once I'm high, it really, really doesn't like coming down. Even on tresiba, which has helped, my profile is still pretty erratic throughout the day.
Basically, then, I have two questions. One, do people think that I would actually benefit from a pump - I do, and I've done a lot of reading, but you are the experts? And two, do I push harder? Or do I just accept that my DSN has decided she doesn't want me to have one, whatever her reasons are, and leave it at that?
Sorry for the essay!
A bit of background. Have been T1 for 5 years, and I am not the most insulin sensitive person on the planet at the best of times, although I am extremely sensitive to stress, temperature, and some of my other medications. No Dawn Phenomenon, thankfully, but I do get a very aggressive feet to the floor rise - up to 5 or 6 mmol/L sometimes, and I also have very, very bad hypo rebound - this afternoon I went down to 2.2, for no good reason I might add, and two hours later it was 20.3. The hypo was treated with five jelly babies, which long experimenting has shown to be the right amount - four doesn't bring me up enough. Sometimes I end up having 7 or 8 injections a day with all the corrections, and once I'm high, it really, really doesn't like coming down. Even on tresiba, which has helped, my profile is still pretty erratic throughout the day.
Basically, then, I have two questions. One, do people think that I would actually benefit from a pump - I do, and I've done a lot of reading, but you are the experts? And two, do I push harder? Or do I just accept that my DSN has decided she doesn't want me to have one, whatever her reasons are, and leave it at that?
Sorry for the essay!