Recent Content by evilclive

Another vote for sticking with Omnipod if you're happy with it. It's got its problems (see previous posts of mine), but it's still good. There is a distinct advantage of it that if you actually hate it enough to want to go tubed, the upfront cost isn't huge compared to the others, so it should...

If paying for it isn't going to stretch you, give it a go. Cheaper than buying a new car.

Dislodged pipe is normally what does that to me.

Mine stay on my legs, but I wear fairly loose trousers so there's nothing really to be caught on.

This is one of the big things that pumps do well - no using slow acting insulin, they only use fast. With slow insulin, if your requirements don't match the flattish curve that they supply, it's not going to work. No adding a little peak or dip. With the pump, you just add the little peak or dip...

Different pump to mine - some are a bit more manual still. :-) That's why I suggest just trying it. The pump definitely adds flexibility - you can just put more in yourself when you want, it's a lot less hassle and pointy than another injection. And I think after the learning period, they are...

We're now talking about two different things - loop mode and manual mode, and we're also getting a bit into pump-specific things. Specifying a rate per hour is manual, not loop. And some pumps won't let you specify a rate per hour while in loop mode - you set up a basal schedule as a starting...

The numbers the pump deals with and the numbers it shows you are the related to the amount it pumps. It will tell you how much has been pumped, when, and how much insulin it currently thinks is in your body based on a lifetime of a few hours. That latter number is related to what you're...

It's not blind faith. You've got the monitoring, so you can see what your sugars have done, and you can see what the pump has done. There's an experimentation and learning phase, for both the pump and for you. But ultimately a pump is a really simple device - little doses of insulin come out...

My short answer to this is it seems to work, so it's possible you might be overthinking things - if there is the option, just try it. But remember all pumps don't work instantly, they need a learning period. There are also two ways a pump can handle DP. One is the one we're talking about, which...

By "insulin depot", do you mean the area of subcutanous fat where the infusion bit sits? The pump is pretty straightforward - X amount of insulin comes out of the sharp bit. That's what it knows about. If it's giving you 1U/hour, it'll do that in drips over the hour. Eg Omnipod doses in...

Or indeed any insulin? I know the starting point these days is genetically modified yeast or bacteria (or algae?) which creates a lot of the insulin protein, rather like yeast creates alcohol in beer. So I'm assuming they start with a vat of nutritious soup, put the starter yeast or whatever...

"You should also indicate the carbohydrates you have consumed by setting the amount of insulin to inject to zero." - I'm struggling to make sense of that sentence. Do you tell it "I've eaten Xg but don't give me any insulin for that"? Regarding time of day - nah, not helpful :-) Closed loop...

Yes, closed loop refers to combining a blood glucose sensor with a pump. The loop is read sugar level, dose appropriately, see which way blood sugar level is changing by reading, dose appropriately, repeat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-loop_controller I will suggest that "You will not...

I think that was "Some pumps cost between 2000 and 4000 GBP before consumables" and "4 year obligation"