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Hi!
I have been connected to my insulin pump for 2 weeks now. The first week was pretty tiring as I was having so many hypos, but after some tweaks to my settings the last week has been a bit easier.
However, I have been struggling a bit with air bubbles in the infusion set. I have been having a look on the forum to see if there are any suggestions/techniques for an air bubble free life(!) and I did see that some people have found that having the new cartdidge of insulin at room temperature before connecting can help?
Basically, my DSN said it's probably easiest to draw up 3 cartdidges of insulin from the 10 ml vial at once, so then insert the first cartridge and then have the other two waiting in the fridge. When we had our pumps connected, I think the insulin vials waiting for us had been out of the fridge a little while. So we drew up three cartridges and I inserted the first one, primed etc. and I didn't seem to experience any problems with air bubbles in the set-clearly the insulin was being delivered as I was having so many hypos! :roll:
But it was when I changed the cartridge, so used one straight from the fridge, that although appeared air bubble free and before and after priming, somehow developed air bubble, as I ended up with very high sugars and on inspection of the tubing discovered there was air in it! I was freaked out by how quickly my sugars shot up, but luckily I did not develop ketones!
Then when I used the next cartdidge straight from the fridge the same thing happened again! I am SURE that the cartidges were air free before insertion and after priming, but somehow air seemed to have got into the set!!
Could it be something to do with using the insulin straight from the fridge? Or maybe I should draw up one cartridge at a time from the insulin vial?
I must admit I am feeling a bit demoralised, as my life feels consumed by my insulin pump at the moment! :roll:
After the first week of worrying about hypos, I am now worrying all the time about going high/air in the pump!
I know it is still early days, I just hope things will get a bit easier...
Any suggestions would be really helpful (sorry this post is a bit of a long garbled thing!)
I have been connected to my insulin pump for 2 weeks now. The first week was pretty tiring as I was having so many hypos, but after some tweaks to my settings the last week has been a bit easier.
However, I have been struggling a bit with air bubbles in the infusion set. I have been having a look on the forum to see if there are any suggestions/techniques for an air bubble free life(!) and I did see that some people have found that having the new cartdidge of insulin at room temperature before connecting can help?
Basically, my DSN said it's probably easiest to draw up 3 cartdidges of insulin from the 10 ml vial at once, so then insert the first cartridge and then have the other two waiting in the fridge. When we had our pumps connected, I think the insulin vials waiting for us had been out of the fridge a little while. So we drew up three cartridges and I inserted the first one, primed etc. and I didn't seem to experience any problems with air bubbles in the set-clearly the insulin was being delivered as I was having so many hypos! :roll:
But it was when I changed the cartridge, so used one straight from the fridge, that although appeared air bubble free and before and after priming, somehow developed air bubble, as I ended up with very high sugars and on inspection of the tubing discovered there was air in it! I was freaked out by how quickly my sugars shot up, but luckily I did not develop ketones!
Then when I used the next cartdidge straight from the fridge the same thing happened again! I am SURE that the cartidges were air free before insertion and after priming, but somehow air seemed to have got into the set!!
Could it be something to do with using the insulin straight from the fridge? Or maybe I should draw up one cartridge at a time from the insulin vial?
I must admit I am feeling a bit demoralised, as my life feels consumed by my insulin pump at the moment! :roll:
After the first week of worrying about hypos, I am now worrying all the time about going high/air in the pump!
I know it is still early days, I just hope things will get a bit easier...
Any suggestions would be really helpful (sorry this post is a bit of a long garbled thing!)