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<blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 198525" data-attributes="member: 11712"><p>As said your background insulin will still be having some effect it does take a couple of days to burn right out of the system, then you be able to start the delightful (not) basal testing to get your basal rates sorted..</p><p></p><p>A complete utter pain in the butt, but is worth all the effort in the end, as if your basal isn't correct then nothing else will be..</p><p></p><p>Be prepared though as you may need to alter some of your carb/insulin ratio's, unlike MDI where some of your carb/insulin ratio's will takle discrepancies within the basal profile, pumps don't do this carb/insulin ratio's are purely based on insulin resistence, not to tackle discrepancies in basal..</p><p></p><p>As to being uncomfortable, sometimes it's the dose size and speed of delivery, check your manual as some pumps (I can't remember which) have the facility to slow the deliver speed down. If you can't then if a large bolus you may need to use one of the other bolus' but saying that once you'll up and running with it all, you may be like me and the standard bolus is used very little..</p><p></p><p>You get their, and when you do your first set and/or cartridge change you will get a lot quicker at it all :roll: my first one took about an hour, now I do the whole lot in a couple of minutes, only held up by the pistion repositioning!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jopar, post: 198525, member: 11712"] As said your background insulin will still be having some effect it does take a couple of days to burn right out of the system, then you be able to start the delightful (not) basal testing to get your basal rates sorted.. A complete utter pain in the butt, but is worth all the effort in the end, as if your basal isn't correct then nothing else will be.. Be prepared though as you may need to alter some of your carb/insulin ratio's, unlike MDI where some of your carb/insulin ratio's will takle discrepancies within the basal profile, pumps don't do this carb/insulin ratio's are purely based on insulin resistence, not to tackle discrepancies in basal.. As to being uncomfortable, sometimes it's the dose size and speed of delivery, check your manual as some pumps (I can't remember which) have the facility to slow the deliver speed down. If you can't then if a large bolus you may need to use one of the other bolus' but saying that once you'll up and running with it all, you may be like me and the standard bolus is used very little.. You get their, and when you do your first set and/or cartridge change you will get a lot quicker at it all :roll: my first one took about an hour, now I do the whole lot in a couple of minutes, only held up by the pistion repositioning! [/QUOTE]
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