Hi,
I've found the pump helps with tricky situations, Tricky foods like pizza, pasta etc. Also with exercise, i walk my dogs and found my BG's would fall if i walked too far, so i had to try plan far ahead so i could try reduce my background, but then i'd end up sky high! but now i just reduce my basal an hour before i go and i very rarely have to treat any low BG's
It's hard work at first, testing through the night, tweaking ALOT in the first 6 weeks at least. I found i had a 'pump honeymoon' and for a week i had almost perfect sugars, 'boy this is easy' i thought, then they returned to their normal self, erraticly high in the morning and battling all day to get them down, i suffer from dawn phenomenon badly, this is now sorted thanks to the pump, something i never managed to handle with injections.
Hiding the pump is easy, you can get pouches, clips and allsorts, lots of people get out the sowing machine and create their own perfect way of concealing the pump, my pump has blue tooth control from the meter so i dont actually have to touch the pump to bolus, so i hade mine usually in a pocket or in my bra if i'm wearing tight or pocketless clothes. easy peasy, just gotta find what works for you and what you wear
It's hard getting used to being attached, by that i mean remembering to take it with you and not let itswing to the floor when you stand up, a bit ouchy if it tugs your cannula! i've also ripped it out in the night and caught the tubing of cupboard handles and ripped it out too, that was in the beggining when i forgot to tuck my tubing in or put in back in my pocket, i also used to watch it bolus so i knew it was working at first haha! but now i trust it 10484728% to do it's job, and it does it really well.
If you are confident that you will benefit fromone, and are willing to put it some man hours especially at first then i say go for it, it did and still does wonders for me.
Dont forget, the pump isn't for everyone, but there's no shame in handing it back if you decide its not for you
Good luck!