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Hi All
On Wednesday I became the proud owner to an Accu-chek Spirit combo pump. Bloody hell! Massive learning curve but the more I play with it the more it makes sense. Day one I had a couple of hypos - I'm guessing because the basal lantus was still in the system. Since then I've had the machine set between 4-8mmol/L and been pretty good only having one spike of 13 but that was user error forgetting to do my bolus.
My diabetic specialist set the machine for sick days and for excercise. She also explained the multi-wave and extended bolus methods. For now I'm just keeping it simple and counting the carbs. I went out on my bike yesterday and did about 10 miles of fairly standard riding and left the machine pumping as normal - didn't change to a lower setting. No hypos.
Changed the cannula yesterday but used the tubing that was already connected. Is that bad practice - should I change both at the same time? All seems to be working and I'm quite happy with it all. Just have to keep reminding my 3 y/o that the pump is there. One the first day my dog jumped up at me, right on the pump! Teething troubles no great drama.
At night I use the white elastic belt and clip it on there. Seems to work for me!
Anyway, just thought I'd say hello. You'll probs see a bit of me here!
On Wednesday I became the proud owner to an Accu-chek Spirit combo pump. Bloody hell! Massive learning curve but the more I play with it the more it makes sense. Day one I had a couple of hypos - I'm guessing because the basal lantus was still in the system. Since then I've had the machine set between 4-8mmol/L and been pretty good only having one spike of 13 but that was user error forgetting to do my bolus.
My diabetic specialist set the machine for sick days and for excercise. She also explained the multi-wave and extended bolus methods. For now I'm just keeping it simple and counting the carbs. I went out on my bike yesterday and did about 10 miles of fairly standard riding and left the machine pumping as normal - didn't change to a lower setting. No hypos.
Changed the cannula yesterday but used the tubing that was already connected. Is that bad practice - should I change both at the same time? All seems to be working and I'm quite happy with it all. Just have to keep reminding my 3 y/o that the pump is there. One the first day my dog jumped up at me, right on the pump! Teething troubles no great drama.
At night I use the white elastic belt and clip it on there. Seems to work for me!
Anyway, just thought I'd say hello. You'll probs see a bit of me here!