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Would you prefer to be on insulin injections or on a pump?
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<blockquote data-quote="SophiaW" data-source="post: 286601" data-attributes="member: 13451"><p><strong>Re: Would you prefer to be on insulin injections or on a pum</strong></p><p></p><p>Beav, I think you'd have more damage done to you from falling than from the tiny cannula getting ripped out that's if it got ripped out as they are fairly secure. When my daughter exercises her bg usually drops so she can comfortably do an hour without the pump, sometimes she can go longer. If she wants to be longer without the pump then what we do is after an hour we test bg, if it's still low enough she can go another half hour with us testing every half hour. If her reading is creaping up a little then we'll plug the pump back in, do a small bolus and then unplug again and she's good for another hour. She's been swimming and gone 2 hours without the pump doing it this way and it has worked fine for us like that, haven't tried it longer than 2 hours but it might work this way for longer, would need to test and see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SophiaW, post: 286601, member: 13451"] [b]Re: Would you prefer to be on insulin injections or on a pum[/b] Beav, I think you'd have more damage done to you from falling than from the tiny cannula getting ripped out that's if it got ripped out as they are fairly secure. When my daughter exercises her bg usually drops so she can comfortably do an hour without the pump, sometimes she can go longer. If she wants to be longer without the pump then what we do is after an hour we test bg, if it's still low enough she can go another half hour with us testing every half hour. If her reading is creaping up a little then we'll plug the pump back in, do a small bolus and then unplug again and she's good for another hour. She's been swimming and gone 2 hours without the pump doing it this way and it has worked fine for us like that, haven't tried it longer than 2 hours but it might work this way for longer, would need to test and see. [/QUOTE]
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