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    closed looped system / openAPS

    Please don't think that I am being pedantic as I am trying to be positive about open source closed looping but PLEASE avoid using terms like "hacking" as this suggests that the pump has been reprogrammed or changed in some way when it hasn't. All of the open source closed loop systems rely on...
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    Freestyle libre request

    As availability of the Freestyle on the NHS from the 1st of next month is "subject to local health economy approval", I suspect that the first port of call should be to your local CCG as they hold the purse strings at the end of the day but good luck with your enquiry to your GP - please let us...
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    Timing of OmniPod changes

    You CAN change it earlier than 6am on Sunday if that would be more convenient - there is nothing to stop you being in control of the Omnipod rather than the other way round :) I generally change mine just before my evening meal and I am generally at home for that ... and not asleep! I always do...
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    GP wants to save money .... what do you reckon to this idea?

    As a T1 since April 1967 I have seen many changes in BG monitoring and tried a fair few different meters. I have also been using an insulin pump for the past 6 years or so and changed to the Omnipod from the Medtronic Veo a year ago. In addition, I have been self funding the Freestyle Libre for...
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    OmniPods on a plane

    I went to Iceland with EasyJet earlier this year - my first flight with my Omnipod. I got a spare PDA from the Ypsomed office in North Yorkshire just in case - no charge and the package included a return post box. No worries at check-in, security or anywhere else and although I had a letter from...
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    Steroid injections

    Wish I had furtled through this forum before I had my steroid injection yesterday morning although as I wrote here http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/steroid-injection.80609/#post-909493 I DID ask the GP who who administered the injection for his advice first and to be honest would have...
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    Steroid injection

    Oh joy! This is not good to hear as I had a pain relieving steroid injection into my knee at 11am yesterday morning and have had high BGs ever since. More annoying is that I asked the GP, who takes responsibility for these things at my practice, whether the injection would have an effect on my...
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    New Omnipod batch

    There was some talk of this in the Omnipod Facebook group which I suspect is mainly frequented by folk in North America, might be worth reading posts going back a few months. Cavilon spray is available on NHS prescription to help with tape irritation. I started using it when I first moved to the...
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    Omnipod vs Insight

    How long for? How many pods did you try? After pushing for the Omnipod for quite a while - and moving hospitals in order to get one - I was allowed a trial for 3 months. In the first couple of weeks I ran into similar problems but persisted, in the knowledge that there are thousands of people in...
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    Omnipod questions

    One note on the 3 day change thing as this bothered me a wee bit having used the Medtronic pump for 5 years which would continue to function without a cannula change or alarm for as long as there was insulin in the cartridge. The time at which you have to change the Omnipod is a lot more...
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    Pumps reducing daily insulin dose?

    @niknak15 (or anybody else who knows) : What's 'DP' ? Alan
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    Pumps reducing daily insulin dose?

    My TDD went down by around 33%. Lost a stone and a half too within 18 months of switching to a pump without trying and that was after 40+ years on MDI. Happy days! Alan
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    Pump dilemma

    Exactly the same thing happened to me a couple of years ago when I found out eight months or so before the warranty on my first pump ran out that "policy has changed". In my case, I was looking for both a replacement pump at the end of the warranty period AND a decent choice of replacement and...
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    Insulin Pump Users + Freestyle Libre Users - AGP

    Omnipod, I would like to follow this thread but am rather confused, please can you clarify: At one point in your post after the bit about your 22 hour basal test fasting session, you say "..I seemed to stay between 8 and 9mmol....." and then you write "..from about 4pm, my levels started rising...
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    Omnipod - BG test strip boxes to give away (home made!)

    After something like 42 years of MDI followed by over 5 years of using the Medtronic Veo, I started a trial of the Omnipod system last Wednesday and despite one issue, (I got an occlusion, "change me now!" warning on the first day which Ypsomed suggested may be down to firing in an immediate...