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- Type of diabetes
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- Insulin
Hi all, I have diabetes type 1 and I'm on nova rapid and lantus insulin everyday. I was wondering, is the pump any good?
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Given the amount of tinkering I do with MDI, a pump would be little different.Pumps are great if you don't mind tinkering ALOT more. They won't control things on their own, they won't adapt, they don't look pretty and they have their own safety issues. BUT if you're fed up with stabbing yourself, if you don't mind MANY more correction doses and quite a few more blood tests, they're REALLY easy to get insulin inside yourself. I mean INCREDIBLY easy. Just fish out a controller and tell it to give you more insulin. Faster than sending a text smiley.
Right here's my take on it,please understand this is only my opinion.last week I started a pump trial,after a saline start the previous week,Monday-Wednesday it's was ok,my results were a little high plus had to do a few waking nights too check the basal rates,thursday it all went wrong,after tea my blood was 23 and I was producing ketones(not good as we all know)so I went through the process of taking 10% of my daily dose with a pen,changing the sets and stuff,checking every hour and a half,this went on from 8 in the evening to 5.30 the next morning where I had eventually hit 16,I made the decision at around 2.30 in the morning that the pump was not for me,personally I felt it was more too worry about,seeing as if you are going anywhere for any length of time you have to take a bag with you,containing batteries,fresh sets,short acting carbs,insulin,blood/ketones meter and also a short acting insulin pen??? Where as now all I need are a couple of pens and a blood meter,plus having this thing attached too you 24 hrs a day felt like a constant reminder of my condition,where as with pens you can at least forget your diabetic till the next injection.like I said at the start this is only my opinion,I feel that everything is geared towards pro pump and rarely hear the other side of the argument.
Pumps are great if you don't mind tinkering ALOT more. They won't control things on their own, they won't adapt, they don't look pretty and they have their own safety issues. BUT if you're fed up with stabbing yourself, if you don't mind MANY more correction doses and quite a few more blood tests, they're REALLY easy to get insulin inside yourself. I mean INCREDIBLY easy. Just fish out a controller and tell it to give you more insulin. Faster than sending a text smiley.
Did the Dr explain to you that you have to put the work in for the perfect numbers? The pump is only as good as the userI have lantus and NovoRapid wright now but i'm in the waiting list right now to get a pump. The pump it's much better and doctors said that your sugar level will be almost perfect with this little thing. I think so because i wish be a normal person without any other healthy problems, Diabetes is enough...
There speaks someone who has never tried a pumpYou are a normal person ana,in my opinion the pump only serves as a constant reminder that you are diabetic,cause it's always there right by your side.where as now with pens you can forget till meal times about our condition.like I say this it only my opinion.