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<blockquote data-quote="noblehead" data-source="post: 1528309" data-attributes="member: 11028"><p>As far as I can gather from your opening post your employer and specialists concerns are around you working nights due to your unstable bg levels, what I'm saying is a pump would help you manage your bg levels better over injections and could possibly allow you to work nights again.</p><p></p><p>You see on a pump you can manually adjust your basal rate to allow for shift work, so you can increase/decrease the rate according to the activity, this in itself reduces the likelihood of hypo's & hypo's. You can also have different basal programs for when your at work and for when you are off, these can be pre-programmed so there's no adjustments before or during your time at work, there's multiple choices with a pump to adjust your insulin that is much easier to do over MDI.</p><p></p><p>Appreciate basal rates/programs won't make much sense with you not being on a pump, however if you Google the terms you will see how much flexibility a pump can give in times of increased and decreased activity such as work and recreational pursuits.</p><p></p><p>btw, with a pump your not constantly making adjustments, I can't imagine any work environment (within reason) where a pump would be a problem, I've done many shifts over the years including working 12 hour days/nights and although I've not had too many issues at times keeping stable bg levels has been quite demanding, I'm quite new to pumping insulin only being on a pump for two & half years but now realise how easier life would have been had I started on a pump sooner.</p><p></p><p>Anyway best wishes and hope all works out well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="noblehead, post: 1528309, member: 11028"] As far as I can gather from your opening post your employer and specialists concerns are around you working nights due to your unstable bg levels, what I'm saying is a pump would help you manage your bg levels better over injections and could possibly allow you to work nights again. You see on a pump you can manually adjust your basal rate to allow for shift work, so you can increase/decrease the rate according to the activity, this in itself reduces the likelihood of hypo's & hypo's. You can also have different basal programs for when your at work and for when you are off, these can be pre-programmed so there's no adjustments before or during your time at work, there's multiple choices with a pump to adjust your insulin that is much easier to do over MDI. Appreciate basal rates/programs won't make much sense with you not being on a pump, however if you Google the terms you will see how much flexibility a pump can give in times of increased and decreased activity such as work and recreational pursuits. btw, with a pump your not constantly making adjustments, I can't imagine any work environment (within reason) where a pump would be a problem, I've done many shifts over the years including working 12 hour days/nights and although I've not had too many issues at times keeping stable bg levels has been quite demanding, I'm quite new to pumping insulin only being on a pump for two & half years but now realise how easier life would have been had I started on a pump sooner. Anyway best wishes and hope all works out well. [/QUOTE]
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