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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1422751" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>Ive managed to kill my second sensor. I left it in 24 hours before hooking up the transmitter. It seemed to be fairly accurate through Thursday. But last night it was telling me I was low when finger pricks were telling me I was 10+ it suspended insulin deliver for a while. It demanded a calibration at 5 o'clock in the morning, after having woken me up two or three times through the nigh with false alarms, and I unthinkingly let it calibrate with a BG of 9.7 when it was showing 3 or 4. The calibration wasn't accepted and now the sensor won't start up again.</p><p></p><p>When I did a very similar thing on Tuesday morning (after waking up basically ketonic when it suspended insulin when I was 10+) I spent Tuesday trying to get some more life out of the sensor with no luck. I continued with no active CGM on Wednesday and had a severe hypo and paramedic attendance, which was lovely. Well, I mean, I was concious and able to eat so could probably have managed to treat it without an ambulance had I just been able to keep my head up and get the dextrose tablets in my mouth but when I got round to asking for help a blood sugar test said it was less than 1.1 and too low to read so that freaks everyone out and results in a 999.</p><p></p><p>So, I will try and site another sensor, leave it 24 hours to start it up. [USER=30007]@tim2000s[/USER] what are the rules I'm supposed to be following to actually keep the sensor going for at least the 6 days? Should I be telling Medtronic about the sensor failures? I'm not at all sure about who is paying for these sensors, as far as I know I haven't had an IFR and my CCG is fairly resistant to funding CGM.</p><p></p><p>I've just had one flood of tears at 5am when I realised I'd done in the sensor. The low suspend thing is supposed to be the thing I'm trying so that I don't have to go on the transplant list. I've been told I have three options: 1) do nothing, but they think I'm at high risk or death/brain damage from severe hypos; 2) have a pancreas transplant, which has a2% mortality risk; or 3) have an islet cell transplant, which doesn't result in insulin independence but gives you what's basically a second honeymoon and helps out with the hormones to restore hypo awareness. Ive been advised by Kings that the other option is the hypo awareness restoration course, which is CBT, but before I can be recruited for the clinical trial for that I need to try the 640. I seriously hate it at this present moment in time, I feel like it's so inaccurate it's just going to kill me with a lack of insulin first, I don't cope well with being hyper, I'm not a fully functioning human in double figures. I can't be doing with the idea that I'm going to wake up every morning hyper because it's stopped insulin overnight. I just can't be living like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1422751, member: 32394"] Ive managed to kill my second sensor. I left it in 24 hours before hooking up the transmitter. It seemed to be fairly accurate through Thursday. But last night it was telling me I was low when finger pricks were telling me I was 10+ it suspended insulin deliver for a while. It demanded a calibration at 5 o'clock in the morning, after having woken me up two or three times through the nigh with false alarms, and I unthinkingly let it calibrate with a BG of 9.7 when it was showing 3 or 4. The calibration wasn't accepted and now the sensor won't start up again. When I did a very similar thing on Tuesday morning (after waking up basically ketonic when it suspended insulin when I was 10+) I spent Tuesday trying to get some more life out of the sensor with no luck. I continued with no active CGM on Wednesday and had a severe hypo and paramedic attendance, which was lovely. Well, I mean, I was concious and able to eat so could probably have managed to treat it without an ambulance had I just been able to keep my head up and get the dextrose tablets in my mouth but when I got round to asking for help a blood sugar test said it was less than 1.1 and too low to read so that freaks everyone out and results in a 999. So, I will try and site another sensor, leave it 24 hours to start it up. [USER=30007]@tim2000s[/USER] what are the rules I'm supposed to be following to actually keep the sensor going for at least the 6 days? Should I be telling Medtronic about the sensor failures? I'm not at all sure about who is paying for these sensors, as far as I know I haven't had an IFR and my CCG is fairly resistant to funding CGM. I've just had one flood of tears at 5am when I realised I'd done in the sensor. The low suspend thing is supposed to be the thing I'm trying so that I don't have to go on the transplant list. I've been told I have three options: 1) do nothing, but they think I'm at high risk or death/brain damage from severe hypos; 2) have a pancreas transplant, which has a2% mortality risk; or 3) have an islet cell transplant, which doesn't result in insulin independence but gives you what's basically a second honeymoon and helps out with the hormones to restore hypo awareness. Ive been advised by Kings that the other option is the hypo awareness restoration course, which is CBT, but before I can be recruited for the clinical trial for that I need to try the 640. I seriously hate it at this present moment in time, I feel like it's so inaccurate it's just going to kill me with a lack of insulin first, I don't cope well with being hyper, I'm not a fully functioning human in double figures. I can't be doing with the idea that I'm going to wake up every morning hyper because it's stopped insulin overnight. I just can't be living like that. [/QUOTE]
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