Recent Content by sninge

Ive had a tubed pump for 20yrs now and ive always had manual jobs, I think ive caught the tubing maybe twice, one time was a door handle on a canal boat. The pumps are very easy to keep the tubing inside clothing, I have the same fear of knocking a tubeless pump off me but I'm sure there are...

I think it is important to get the correct pump for you. I don't work shifts but I work zero hours contract so go times with no work and then times I work a few or 7 days a week and I do manual work. I'm on a tslim pump which allows me to set my own basals, I have one that I call ' work '...

Yes he is and like me not on the automatic 3 month delivery set up.

A friend of mine also on tslim was in a similar position this week, ordered but a delay in the order being shipped and he was on his last cartridge, he called them on Friday and they said they were having problems with distribution this week and have fast tracked his order and put a couple of...

Like Ellie im on a tslim pump, used roche pumps before so ive been on tubed pumps for 19yrs now and can say I have caught and ripped the tubing out twice in that time, once over night ( I now sleep with a velcro band/pouch around my middle and tuck wires in ) and once when the tubing caught on a...

Out of curiosity as to why do many medronic users seem to have this issue ( including one of my close friends ) I did some googling and found this. So you can't manually set the TDD like you can on tslim and its based on the last 6 days needs, so for arguments sake, if you average about 25 units...

Did you ask your nurse about your total daily insulin? The algorithm isn't going to give you more insulin if it thinks it then won't have enough for the rest of the day.

That is crazy, an infection would definitely be an option and it could be your immune system working away fighting something you don't know about. Clutching at straws ... Don't suppose there is any chance your pump overheats at night next to/under a hot water bottle? I only asked as this...

No, the cold wouldn't effect your sugars that much, I used to work outside all year and the extreme heat was the only change and still not that dramatic. Something is definitely out, im not a Medtronic user but perhaps someone on here who is can help you find where your daily total insulin is...

Sasha, I hope I don't offend as I don't know if you are male or female but could this be menstrual cycle related? I never knew just how much my insulin needs change over the month until I started pumping. The week before my cycle starts my insulin resistance really goes up. Being on tslim I can...

I might well need to be corrected by someone on a Medtronic pump as I am on tslim, but certainly with tslim you set a daily max for your insulin and naturally to avoid severe hypos you will have been advised to keep it quite low and it will be based on what your typical total daily was, not on...

I am on tslim so I don't know 100% if this will help, but when I started on the tslim I had very similar issues with prolonged highs. The 2 things that made the biggest impact was to change the hourly basal max, my highest basal setting ( need ) when in range is 1.5u but my pump is set at a 5u...

I'm not an omnipod user so clutching at straws! Does the pdm have a vibrate setting? My tslim does and I sleep with it in a velcro belt set to vibrate at night so it doesn't wake my husband. If the pdm does this could you sleep with that in a similar way during the night?

I have a tslim now, been pumping 19yrs and had Roche pumps before. I have never worried about my cgms, I have used dexcom for a few years and libre before and have never had an issue with them going through any machines. I usually have some in my suitcase too and have no say on what they go...

I simply remove my pump from my pocket and tell them what it is, depending on the security person one of 2 things happen, they either wave me past the body scanner, pat me down and then swab my pump ( this is the usual route ) or in the past when ive told them I can take it off they swab the...